Senior Researcher Workforce Data; Partial Remote Option

• 30% - Lead analyses that help colleges understand regional workforce opportunities, employment outcomes for students who complete postsecondary programs, and skills alignment between industry needs and academic programs.
  
  - (Essential)
• 25% - Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and other data products that translate education-to-employment and labor-market information into actionable resources for program design, project monitoring, and continuous improvement.
  
  - (Essential)
• 20% - Lead participant tracking for students enrolled in TalentTN-supported programs. Establish consistent collection processes across participating colleges and coordinate the use of T  data to understand enrollment, progression, and completion in TalentTN-supported programs - (Essential)
• 20% - Provide technical assistance to participating colleges on participant tracking, reporting, and use of workforce information. Build productive relationships with institutional research, institutional effectiveness, workforce development, academic affairs, and student success staff.
  
  - (Essential)
• 5% - Perform other duties as assigned.
  
  - (Marginal)

• Graduate degree in data analytics, statistics, economics, public policy, higher education, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and professional experience.
• Three or more years of progressively responsible professional experience in data analytics, institutional research, workforce data, or a related field.
• Experience working with complex administrative or longitudinal data from multiple systems or organizations.

• Experience working with higher education or workforce data in collaboration with colleges, state agencies, institutional research or effectiveness staff, workforce partners, evaluators, or research organizations.
• Experience linking education records with employment and Unemployment Insurance wage-record data.
• Experience developing business-intelligence products and using tools such as Power BI, SQL-based environments, statistical software, data visualization platforms, or comparable technologies.

• Knowledge of higher education and workforce data, including enrollment, progression, completion, credentials, labor-market demand, and post-college employment and wage outcomes.
• Ability to analyze complex administrative, education-to-employment, and labor-market data and translate findings into clear, actionable insights.
• Experience developing dashboards, reports, data visualizations, and analytic products for technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Strong project-management and organizational skills, including the ability to coordinate interdependent work streams, document processes, meet deadlines, and deliver high-quality work across a complex statewide initiative.
• Demonstrated ability to build effective working relationships and provide technical assistance across colleges, system offices, state agencies, workforce organizations, employers, evaluators, and research partners.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work independently while contributing effectively to a collaborative, multidisciplinary team.

T —The College System of Tennessee serves community colleges and colleges of applied technology across the state. The Office of Research and Innovation works at the front lines of T ’s efforts to support innovation that advances postsecondary access and student success. Through the Office of Research and Innovation, T  turns data, research, and field-based learning into actionable information for system leaders, colleges, and partners.
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