BI Report Developer

Position: BI Report Developer 1
## BI Report Developer 1

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The University of Miami, Graduate School, has an exciting opportunity for a full time BI Report Developer 1 to work in Coral Gables, FL.The position designs, builds, and maintains the Graduate School reporting on graduate student and program outcomes for every doctoral, master’s, and certificate program at the University of Miami, in partnership with the schools and colleges. The incumbent collects and integrates data from the student information system, the graduate admissions platform, degree and milestone records, the National Student Clearinghouse, alumni and employment sources, and surveys administered by the Graduate School.

The incumbent produces dashboards and short written products for the provost, deans, associate deans, program directors, graduate faculty, and students for each finding what a program should do next. The incumbent is expected to publish that data accurately, on a schedule, with definitions in plain language, and with disclosure protection for small programs.

Core responsibilities:

* Designs, develops, and maintains business intelligence reports and dashboards.
* Creates and configures metadata objects.
* Develops a strong understanding of user reporting needs and makes recommendations on how reports can be developed using BI tools.
* Works with ETL developers to determine report design strategies.
* Works with application analysts to identify and understand source data systems.
* Analyzes possible reporting alternatives in relationship to business needs, costs, effectiveness, and information availability requirements.
* Works on security setup and maintenance, tool administration, and data modeling.
* Develops or assists in the creation of project time estimates.
* Develops and implements application documentation and training materials.
* Provides post-implementation support of user questions and fine-tuning of processes.
* Maintains communication with management and users during the development or maintenance cycle.
* Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.  
** Department Specific Functions:
** Data collection and reporting:
* Pulls graduate student data each term from the student information system, the admissions system, degree and milestone records, and the National Student Clearinghouse, and keeps one certified source the Graduate School reports from.
* Checks every figure against the official count held by the Registrar and Institutional Research before it is published and explains any difference in writing.
* Freezes each term so that a report run a year later reproduces the number that was published and logs any figure that is restated.
* Collects career and employment outcomes for graduates, and records how each cohort was tracked and how many graduates were found.
* Reports data problems to the office that owns the data rather than correcting them quietly.  Definitions and measures:
* Writes and maintains the definition of every published measure, including entering cohort, new student, completion, attrition, time to degree, and placement.
* Builds completion, attrition, and time to degree by entering cohort for doctoral and master’s programs.
* Uses federal and association categories where they exist, including Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, and Association of American Universities Data Exchange…