The California State University, Office of the Chancellor is seeking an Assistant Director, Student Success Dashboard Data Scientist to devise and oversee the implementation of the research and data analytics strategy for the CSU Student Success Dashboard and related data-dashboard properties, aiming to identify opportunities for increasing graduation rates and eliminating equity gaps.
Requirements
- Master’s Degree in Education, Psychology, Psychometrics, Sociology, Public Health, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics or related field.
- A minimum of 4 years of professional experience managing, developing and implementing strategies for gathering, processing, cleaning, and creating reports, graphs, maps, and/or other visualizations.
- A minimum of 4 years of professional experience managing, developing, testing, and analyzing statistical and descriptive models for real-world applications.
- A minimum of 4 years of professional experience working within a team to present data analytic results in data visualization-based reports.
- Proficiency in R and SAS statistical programming/scripting languages.
- Experience creating and working with MySQL data tables.
- Proficiency running SQL queries.
- Proficiency in Python.
Responsibilities
- Oversee and lead the creation and management of dashboard data sets and data assets.
- Provide managerial oversight for the processes of collecting and normalizing dashboard data files, merging them with internal and external data sources, and generating statistical results using commercial and homegrown software.
- Using knowledge of statistical modeling techniques, discern appropriate approaches needed to develop and implement models that assess trends in data, identify key predictor variables or factors, and generate predictive models to forecast future behaviors and outcomes.
- Evaluate alternative modeling solutions and identify best practices.
- Validate and refine dashboard content and implementations and assure the quality and accuracy of Dashboard reports.
- Generate statistical results using commercial and homegrown software (SAS, SPSS, R, M-Plus, etc.)
- Problem-solve to meet dashboard reporting requirements.
Other
- Provide direct supervision and managerial support for the Dashboard Data Scientist position.
- Manage and provide data analytics leadership and guidance to non-data technical staff (UI designer, and full-stack developer) in the development of data dashboards and campus reports.
- Manage and lead professional development sessions to help campus leaders better understand opportunities for leveraging the dashboard to foster cultures of evidence on their campuses.
- Supervisory and/or project management experience.
- Ability to present complex findings and recommendations in a clear concise manner both in writing and verbally.
