Strategic Leader – Data & Analytics, Associate Director

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Strategic Leader – Data & Analytics, Associate Director

At EAB , our mission is to make education smarter and our communities stronger. We work with more than 2,800 institutions to drive transformative change through data-driven insights and best-in-class capabilities. From kindergarten to college to career, EAB partners with leaders and practitioners to accelerate progress and drive results across enrollment, student success, institutional strategy, data analytics, and advancement. We work with each partner differently, tailoring our portfolio of research, technology, and marketing and enrollment solutions to meet the unique needs of every leadership team, as well as the students and employees they serve.

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The Strategic Leader (SL) is a strategic advisor to higher education institutions using EAB’s Data and Analytics technologies. This role is designed for individuals who understand how colleges and universities use data to inform institutional strategy, improve decision-making, measure outcomes, and drive organizational change.

Successful candidates will bring meaningful experience working within or alongside higher education, ideally in Institutional Research, Institutional Effectiveness, institutional analytics, data strategy, or a related function. They understand both the opportunities and challenges institutions face when attempting to make data more accessible, trusted, and actionable across campus.

As the primary strategic partner for institutions leveraging Edify, EAB’s data and analytics platform, the SL helps institutional leaders translate their priorities into data, analytics, and organizational strategies. This requires more than technical knowledge. SLs must be able to navigate institutional culture, engage stakeholders across functional and leadership levels, facilitate difficult conversations, and help institutions change how they use data.

In this role, the SL will:

Serve as a Higher Education Data Advisor: Build trusted relationships with institutional leaders by bringing a strong understanding of higher education data, reporting analytics, and decision-making practices.

Translate Institutional Priorities into Data Strategy: Understand an institution’s strategic goals, data environment, reporting needs, and organizational challenges, then help leaders identify practical opportunities to strengthen their use of data.

Guide Institutional Change: Help institutions move from technology implementation to meaningful adoption by developing stakeholder engagement, governance, communication, and change management strategies.

Connect Data to Institutional Outcomes: Help partners use data to answer important institutional questions related to areas such as enrollment, student success, academic performance, financial sustainability, operational effectiveness, and institutional strategy.

Drive Adoption and Value: Ensure institutions are realizing measurable value from EAB’s technology and services by establishing priorities, monitoring progress, identifying barriers, and recommending next steps.

Navigate Complex Stakeholder Environments: Work effectively with institutional executives, Institutional Research and Institutional Effectiveness leaders, IT and data teams, functional leaders, analysts, and other campus stakeholders.

Identify Opportunities for Greater Impact: Recognize…