Data Analyst

Data Analyst I
-District Office PRIMARY FUNCTION

The Data Analyst I supports Institutional Research and Data Science by accessing and preparing structured data and by developing, maintaining, and improving dashboards, reports, scorecards, recurring analyses, and metric-based decision‑support tools. The position assists with translating institutional priorities and stakeholder questions into reliable data products, metric definitions, descriptive analyses, and visualizations that support planning, institutional effectiveness, accreditation, accountability, operational improvement, and student success.

Working within established data standards and under guidance for more complex assignments, the position contributes to accurate, consistent, and responsible use of institutional data, including verification, documentation, human review, and escalation of AI‑assisted analytical outputs before they are used or communicated.

• Access, query, join, and prepare structured data from approved institutional data sources, semantic models, or reporting schemas using tools such as SQL, Python, SAS, Power BI, or comparable platforms, under guidance from senior analysts or data partners.
• Develop, maintain, and improve dashboards, reports, scorecards, assigned official‑reporting components, and other data products using approved enterprise reporting and visualization tools.
• Support standardized metrics, key performance indicators, recurring institutional reporting, and assigned official, statutory, regulatory, accreditation, and accountability reporting by applying established definitions, calculation methods, submission specifications, documentation requirements, validation procedures, and reporting standards.
• Work with internal stakeholders to clarify reporting needs, translate business questions into data requirements, and produce clear, decision‑useful outputs.
• Prepare descriptive analyses, summaries, trends, and visualizations for operational, strategic, compliance‑related, and student success purposes.
• Apply established business rules, data definitions, governance standards, privacy requirements, security expectations, records‑management practices, and Responsible AI‑supported analytics procedures, including documentation of AI assistance, preservation of required human review, verification against approved data and metric definitions, and escalation of unsupported or inappropriate outputs.
• Validate dashboards, reports, datasets, analytical outputs, and AI‑assisted summaries or visualizations; compare outputs with approved source data, definitions, and metrics; perform routine quality and reasonableness checks; document potential inaccuracies, unsupported conclusions, misleading language, bias or fairness concerns, privacy issues, or limitations; and escalate complex or consequential issues as appropriate.
• Document metric definitions, report logic, calculation methods, data sources, assumptions, limitations, recurring production procedures, use of AI‑assisted methods, validation performed, human‑review decisions, and unresolved concerns to support transparency, consistency, auditability, and continuity.
• Monitor the reliability, usability, and consistency of dashboards, reports, and metric outputs and contribute to continuous improvement of institutional data products.
• Support institutional effectiveness, accreditation, planning, accountability, official reporting, and student‑success initiatives through recurring and ad hoc analyses; communicate findings and limitations clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences; and avoid presenting AI‑generated content as verified institutional analysis without appropriate validation and professional review.

• Participate in professional development related to analytics, visualization, data governance, institutional data use, and responsible AI‑supported analytics.
• Serve on councils and committees as requested to provide institutional research expertise and support for college‑wide projects or initiatives.
• Other duties as assigned.

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