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If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. This position is in-office in Salt Lake City, UT.

Job Profile Summary:

The Institutional Analytics and Research (IAR) team supports and enables most university teams, departments, and colleges to make data-informed decisions that lead to better student outcomes. Our analysts, scientists, researchers, and managers are distributed across several teams: Faculty Experience Analytics, Institutional Research, Learning Analytics, Outreach Analytics, and Student Success Analytics.

The IAR Senior Data Analyst is responsible for extracting, processing, analyzing, and reporting on data to produce rigorous, actionable insights and research. They establish and maintain strong relationships with peers and leaders across IAR, Data Engineering, Product Management, Finance, EdTech, and Faculty staff. They perform ad hoc analyses, build standard reports and data visualizations, and deliver information and insights through various methods and media that privilege data storytelling and compress time-to-action.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities: * Drives the documentation of data and analytics needs in projects of high complexity with a student and equity-centered lens, collaborating with peers, cross-functional partners, faculty staff, and leaders. Translates of user stories into technical requirements. * Sets and manages expectations about analytics tasks and activities through clear, timely, and effective communication with partners and stakeholders. * Answers complex business questions requiring extensive knowledge of the university's data assets across several domains and departments. * Identifies adequate data sources and data sets to evaluate hypotheses, build forecasts, and support findings of research projects and experiments. * Collaborates with Data Engineering in the development of complex ETL/ELT processes and data pipelines. * Identifies, investigates, and solves complex data issues, contributing to the accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, and validity of the university's data. * Collaborates with Data Engineering and other data and analytics partners to define standards and best practices that increase data quality across the university. * Combines data analysis, visualization, and narrative structures to convey information in compelling ways that instigate deliberate action. * Utilizes software, scripts, and algorithms to perform data-related tasks (e.g. importing, cleaning, transforming, analyzing, displaying) without human intervention. * Conveys information effectively to peers, partners, and senior leaders, using a variety of resources and formats (synchronous and asynchronous, verbal and written) such as e-mails, presentations, meetings, and workshops. * Creates and organizes information about processes, projects, operations, data assets,... For full info follow application link.

Western Governors Univeristy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.