Slate Analyst

Compensation: $63,482 - $66,300 annually

Whitman College

Located in the historic community of Wallawalla, Whitman's vibrant and beautiful tree-lined campus is home to an intellectually diverse, dynamic, welcoming and supportive community of some 500 staff and faculty serving approximately 1,500 students from the local region and across the globe. Whitman College is cultivating a community built on inclusion and belonging. We recognize the value of those who can offer historically underrepresented perspectives and encourage applications from those whose background, knowledge, and insights from lived experience can add to the college's working and learning environment.

Whitman College is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer (EEO).

The Slate Analyst, as a part of Advancement Strategies and Operation in Development and Alumni Relations at Whitman College, manages and optimizes Slate to support donor relations and alumni engagement. Reporting to the Director of Advancement Strategies and Operation, this role partners with stakeholders across the division to provide reporting, analytics and systems expertise that supports data-informed decision making.

• Manage the Slate CRM database and other related databases, tools, systems, and applications.
• Serve as an expert on Slate tools including form building, delivering mailings, events, queries, reports, portals and others as they are introduced.
• Provide ongoing training and technical support to campus users of Slate for Advancement.

• Coordinate all administration of systems, most of which are SAAS, including system-wide settings, installations/onboarding, and offboarding.
• Responsible for creating and executing all data exchanges between systems.
• Create, manage and inactivate users and permissions to ensure both access and security.
• Participate or lead all system selection projects with an emphasis on meeting business needs while ensuring data privacy and security.
• Serve as People Grove administrator for the College.

• Maintain, enhance and audit Slate queries, reports and dashboards.
• Develop forms and portal templates, email templates and portals utilizing CSS, JavaScript and Liquid Mark-up.
• Utilize advanced Slate reporting by modifying, delivering and creating custom reports.
• Support data-informed business practices through data organization, analysis and reporting to aid in decision-making.

• Manage, scope, prioritize, and complete tasks within deadlines that meet requirements.
• Collaborate and communicate with the Director on barriers and status updates.
• Provide project management support for departmental technology projects.

• Advanced proficiency with MS Office and Google applications, especially Excel and Sheets.
• Data analysis and/or report