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Position Title: Outcomes Analyst
Position Status: Full-time
Campus: Western University Campus-Pomona, CA
Link: https://jobs.westernu.edu/postings/23195
Job Summary:
The Outcomes Analyst supports the Office of the College Outcomes Assessment in coordinating assessment activities for academic and co-curricular programs and facilitating the development and maintenance of the course and program student learning outcomes. Under the supervision of the Director of Outcomes Assessment, the Outcomes Analyst uses available information technology resources to gather, organize, and store appropriate data, performs statistical analysis of outcomes data, generates reports and helps disseminate the findings to appropriate stakeholders to meet the needs of the College of Veterinary Medicine, the university, other programs, and constituents.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Individuals must possess the knowledge, as well as the following skills and abilities or be able to perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation. 1. Excellent analytical, verbal, and written English communication and presentation skills. Must be able to interact effectively with administration, faculty, staff, students and other external contacts. 2. Ability to collect, organize, and manage large amounts of data in different formats. 3. Excellent data visualization skills, including the ability to interpret data and to create impactful reports and dashboards. 4. Ability to perform basic quantitative and qualitative statistical analyses. 5. Ability to manage sensitive records in an atmosphere of procedure and security. 6. Good interpersonal communication and the ability to work well in a group. 7. Self-motivated, and self-directed learner with the skills to facilitate, organize, prioritize and manage projects. 8. Excellent problem-solving and logic skills, with high attention to detail.
Required Qualifications:
Education: Any combination, training, or experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform this job satisfactorily. Bachelor’s degree required. Coursework in research methods, survey design, programming language and statistics are preferred. Experience: A minimum of two years of experience in data management and analysis, or equivalent; or a combination of academic and work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel® (including functions such as PivotTable, Pivot Charts, Lookups, conditional functions, among others). -Experience with survey creation/distribution using Qualtrics®, report writing, and project management. - Experience in using statistical programs such (examples: SPSS®, SAS®, JMP®, R, GraphPad® or similar. - Experience with Power Microsoft BI®, SharePoint®, and PowerApps®. - Experience with programming language (example: Python, R, or similar). - Knowledge of relational database management systems, entity-relationship diagrams, data flows, data normalization, and SQL syntax.
List comments regarding work hours:
Monday through Friday, some weekends and evenings may apply