- Senior Analyst Princeton
- Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, United States
- jobs
- 1 month ago
jobs description
Overview
The Center for Career Development at Princeton University is
seeking a Senior Analyst to lead the development and implementation
of a comprehensive data reporting and assessment environment
designed to measure attainment of learning outcomes through our
programming, resources and advising; and to increase the scale and
reach of our career-related post-graduation and summer experience
outcomes.
This role oversees all departmental data collection and analysis
to measure and report trends on key performance indicators, program
assessment and student outcomes. This position also manages the
department's overall data usage, storage and integration. This role
also contributes to various financial-related functions including:
budgeting, forecasting, account reconciliations, processing journal
entries and reporting.
Responsibilities
Assessment and Data Analysis (50%)
• Lead strategy, development, data compilation, analysis and
enhancement of processes for metrics and assessment, including
student learning outcomes, graduation/outcomes metrics, advising
evaluations, student engagement data and employer feedback
• Lead the administration of the University-wide career outcomes
survey process in conjunction with Institutional Research, academic
units and departments, in order to provide effectiveness in data
collection, synthesis, interpretation and visualization
• Develop, administer and analyze post-graduation outcomes and
Learning and Education through Service (LENS) outcomes and
reports
• Collaborate with LENS partners and stakeholders across campus
to lead institutional understanding of all Princeton internship
funding
• Design and develop valid assessment items/tools and evaluation
methodologies
• Use data to drive decision-making with an eye toward continuous
improvement
• Use technical algorithms, modeling and mathematical
calculations to compile and analyze relevant data, creating and
presenting narrative reports that address specific questions and/or
processes, and communicate trends and conclusions
• Manage departmental data visualization tool (Tableau) for
department and implement strategic reports to best illustrate
departmental impact
• Work with multiple campus offices and others to partner on data
collection and visualization
Data Management (25%)
• Manage all departmental data systems and technology, including
overseeing the completion of select tasks by other team
members
• Serve as liaison with the Registrar's Office to ensure student
data integrity
• Serve as departmental point person for data consistency across
all department systems
• In partnership with the career advising team, serve as a
liaison with academic departments to provide post-graduation
outcomes data and reports
• Design underlying data structures to facilitate reporting and
analysis
• Serve as liaison with Institutional Research on post-graduation
outcomes and alumni outcomes data and to ensure proper linkages
with the University's Information Warehouse
• Manage departmental instance of Salesforce and related tools;
convene Salesforce user meeting and oversee new uses of the tool to
manage departmental data
Budget & Financial Management (20%)
• Monitor transactions for Center for Career Development and LENS
budgets
• Perform account reconciliations and journal entries as
necessary
• Track budgetary performance and re-forecasts on a monthly
basis
• Update and share financial performance to managers to inform
decision making
• Ensure compliance with University financial policies and
protocols
• Contribute to departmental budget submission
• Perform ad hoc financial reporting and analysis
Research (5%)
• Conduct a variety of benchmarking projects regarding outcomes
and offerings with peer institutions
• Analyze student compensation and outcomes data points to
recommend areas of future growth in programming and advising
• Manage projects to ensure completion of deliverables and
adherence to timelines; track milestones and timelines across
projects and institute necessary workflow and resource allocations;
analyze and resolve issues that have the potential to jeopardize
performance and/or ability to meet agreed upon deliverables
• Qualifications
Essential
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, data cleaning and
manipulation
• Extensive data visualization experience, and expertise using
Tableau (or related tools)
• Ability to establish, measure and report program objectives and
learning outcomes
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; strong attention
to detail, ability to work with quantitative and qualitative
data
• Ability to conduct research, gather and interpret data, and
create effective charts, graphs and narrative reports to describe
trends
Preferred
• Familiarity with Salesforce and relational databases
• Familiarity with Handshake system and ability to create API
linkages
• Experience with budgeting systems
Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and all
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment
without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin,
disability status, protected veteran status, or any other
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