This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/12384487 Assistant or Associate Director, Data Analysis and Systems Services

Enrollment Management Shared Services - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Are you passionate about driving data-informed decisions that shape the future of higher education? Do you thrive on solving complex technical challenges and leading innovative projects? Become a key player in Enrollment Management at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where your expertise will directly influence student success and institutional strategy.

Why Join Us?

At Illinois, we\'re not just a team, we\'re a community. You\'ll collaborate closely with university leadership, make an impact on crucial enrollment systems, and lead technical projects that empower data-driven decision-making across the institution. Whether you\'re developing data solutions or streamlining operational processes, your role will be pivotal to advancing our mission.

Operational Support

Technical implementation:

• Serve as lead and technical steward for Enrollment Management production systems, both custom and vended.
• Implement new processes and systems to meet EM business needs in the areas of data, reporting and systems integration.
• Oversee regularly scheduled ETLs and other automated tasks.
• Troubleshoot and fix problems as they arise.

Business/Operational analysis:

• Collaborate with Enrollment Management leadership to define and plan processes and systems to meet EM business needs in the areas of data, reporting and systems integration.
• Serve as lead and liaison between the functional and technical users to make sure existing systems meet Enrollment Management\'s business needs. This includes the first-year application platforms (myIllini and the Common Application) as well as the internal application processing application (iAdmit) and the CRM (Slate).
• Create and maintain documentation and training materials.
• Supervise one to three data analysts on the Data Analysis and Systems Services team.
• (Assistant level) Lead and participate in multiple Enrollment Management system implementation and testing efforts.
• (Associate level) Lead and participate in multiple Enrollment Management system implementation and testing efforts and fill in for the Director when absent.
• (Associate level) Provide directional oversight on the management of projects and coordination with all necessary internal and external groups, as needed.

Data Management and Reporting

Business/Operational analysis:

• Collaborate with Enrollment Management leadership to:
  • Develop, maintain, schedule and distribute strategic and operational reports of prospect, applicant, and student data for Enrollment Management, colleges and departments, and other external campus entities.
  • Provide analytic reporting and data modeling solutions to predict who will apply, be admitted, enroll, retain, and graduate based on multiple data elements, including financial aid.
• Help create and continually improve reporting guidelines and definitions for Enrollment Management.

Technical implementation:

• Lead Enrollment Management report development efforts.
• Lead the oversight of the regularly scheduled and automated report creation and delivery.
• Provide end-user support for data retrieval and reporting.

Required Qualifications -

• Bachelor\'s degree in business administration, management, or a field related to the position.
• (Assistant level) Four years of professional business, financial, and/or managerial work experience in data systems management.
• (Associate level) Five years of professio al business, financial, and/or managerial work experience in data systems management.
• Demonstrated experience managing data systems and/or reporting at an administrative level.
• Demonstrated experience working with advanced level SQL or other advanced data manipulation tools.

Preferred Qualifications -

Bachelor\'s or Master\'s degree in Information Science, Data Systems, IT Management or an IT related field.

(Assistant level) Five years of experience working with Admissions and/or Student systems.

(Associate level) Eight years of experience working with Admissions and/or Student systems.

Demonstrated one year experience managing data systems at administrative level.

Programming/scripting experience (e.g. .NET, C#, Javascript, HTML, or Powershell, etc.).

Experience working with and providing high-quality service to a diverse group of constituents.

Experience with MS Power BI, Tableau or other relevant data visualization tools and methods.

Experience with University of Illinois data systems - EDW, Banner.

(Assistant level) Experience with Python, R, MS Azure/Synapse, or other relevant data tools and methods.

(Associate level) Advanced level experience with Python, R, MS Azure/Syn