Academic Assessment and Information Analyst

This position has been deemed critical by the School of Humanities and Sciences Dean’s Office and is exempt from the hiring freeze.

This is a hybrid position based on the Stanford campus, with a minimum of 3 days per week on site.

The budgeted base salary range for this position is $143,111 to $151,918 annually.

The School of Humanities and Sciences (H&S) is the foundation of a liberal arts education  school encompasses 24 departments and 25 interdisciplinary programs. H&S is home to fundamental and applied research, where free, open, and critical inquiry is pursued across disciplines. As the university’s largest school, H&S serves as the foundation of a Stanford undergraduate education no matter which discipline students pursue as a major.

Graduate students work alongside world-renowned faculty to pursue and shape foundational research that leads to breakthroughs and discoveries that shed new light on the past, influence the present, and shape the future. Together, faculty and students in H&S engage in inspirational teaching, learning, and research every day.

The Humanities and Sciences Data and Planning team is the data and analysis function behind decision-making in the H&S Dean’s Office. We source, integrate, and validate data from university systems covering student records, faculty appointments, degree enrollment and conferrals, finances, course enrollment patterns, and space, and we build the dashboards, models, and reports the deans rely on when weighing resource decisions.

We take open-ended questions from the deans and from units across the school, turn them into defined analyses, and present the findings. We assess how the school’s academic programs and initiatives are performing, serve as the school’s primary point of contact for internal and external data requests, and provide the analysis underpinning annual and long-range planning. The work is technical and collaborative, connecting us to every unit in the Dean’s Office and to data partners across the university.

The Academic Assessment and Information Analyst is a key member of the School of Humanities and Sciences Data and Planning team, reporting to the Chief of Staff and working closely with the other Dean’s Office functional teams and with the Institutional Research & Decision Support (IRDS) team. The role is responsible for analyzing the key academic drivers in the school to support the decision-making of the Dean and Senior Associate Deans.

The Analyst gathers, interprets, monitors, and analyzes information on policies, procedures, demographics, and operational outcomes, yielding actionable information across a wide range of areas, and conducts assessments of initiatives undertaken by the school. The Analyst also provides expert knowledge of Stanford’s reporting systems and delivers reporting for the Dean’s Office and in support of our departments and programs. The Analyst works with minimal supervision as part of a team of analysts supporting our office.

This is a 100% FTE, exempt, continuing position and will be based on the Stanford campus.

Additional highly preferred qualifications for this position include:

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or analytical field — statistics, data science, economics, social science research methods, higher education administration, or a related discipline — and five to eight years of experience in institutional research, data analysis, or reporting. Master’s degree preferred; relevant experience in a university setting may substitute.

• Proficiency with data retrieval and manipulation tools such as Tableau Prep Builder, Alteryx, Python, etc.
• Experience building and maintaining…