Research Analyst 3
Research Analyst 3
Oregon State University
Department: College of Engineering (ENG)
Appointment Type: Classified Staff
Job Location: Corvallis
Recommended Full-Time Salary Range:
Job Summary:
This recruitment will be used to fill one full-time Research Analyst 3 position for the College of Engineering at Oregon State University (OSU).
This position leads the data procurement and data analysis needs of the College of Engineering (CoE) Administrators and leadership to facilitate College goal setting and assessment. This position gathers, compiles, cleans, analyzes, and interprets data and statistical information for CoE. This position develops and contributes to the development of qualitative and quantitative research designs, including data collection instruments and procedures, and applies computer tools and statistical measures in their work. This position analyzes data and patterns across multiple areas of CoE and communicates the results of analyses and interpretations in oral, narrative, and graphical form for the purpose of data-informed decision-making, planning, and assessment. This position also develops methods to help streamline processes and decision-making. The position will collaborate and partner with the University Information and Technology (UIT) data group to address data needs and gain a better understanding of the university's data environment. This position recommends decisions to CoE administrators based on their ongoing data analysis and tracking.
CoE is committed to building a community of faculty, students, and staff that is increasingly inclusive, collaborative, diverse, and centered on student success. This position will support COE's efforts to broaden our capacity to advance student success across individual identities and facilitate the continuous improvement of teaching and learning in the College.
Why OSU?
Working for Oregon State University is so much more than a job!
Oregon State University is a dynamic community of dreamers, doers, problem-solvers and change-makers. We don’t wait for challenges to present themselves — we seek them out and take them on. We welcome students, faculty and staff from every background and perspective into a community where everyone feels seen and heard. We have deep-rooted mindfulness for the natural world and all who depend on it, and together, we apply knowledge, tools and skills to build a better future for all.
FACTS:
• Top 1.4% university in the world
• More research funding than all public universities in Oregon combined
• 1 of 3 land, sea, space and sun grant universities in the U.S.
• 2 campuses, 11 colleges, 12 experiment stations, and Extension programs in all 36 counties
• 7 cultural resource centers that offer education, celebration and belonging for everyone
• 100+ undergraduate degree programs, 80+ graduate degrees plus hundreds of minor options and certificates
• 35k+ students including more than 2.3k international students and 10k students of color
• 217k+ alumni worldwide
• For more interesting facts about OSU visit: https://oregonstate.edu/about
Locations:
Oregon State has a statewide presence with campuses in Corvallis and Bend, the OSU Portland Center and the Hatfield Marine Science Center on the Pacific Coast in Newport.
Oregon State’s beautiful, historic and state-of-the-art main campus is located in one of America’s best college towns. Corvallis is located close to the Pacific Ocean, the Cascade mountains and Oregon wine country. Nestled in the heart of the Willamette Valley, this beautiful city offers miles of mountain biking and hiking trails, a river perfect for boating or kayaking and an eclectic downtown featuring local cuisine, popular events and performances.
Total Rewards Package:
Oregon State University offers a https://hr.oregonstate.edu/benefits/prospective-employee with benefits eligible positions that is designed to meet the needs of employees and their families including:
• Medical, Dental, Vision and Basic Life. OSU pays 95% of premiums for you and your eligible dependents.
• Free confidential mental health and emotional support services, and counseling resources.
• Retirement savings paid by the university.
• A generous paid leave package, including holidays, vacation and sick leave.
• Tuition reduction benefits for you or your qualifying dependents at OSU or the additional six Oregon Public Universities.
• Robust Work Life programs including Dual Career assistance resources, flexible work arrangements, a Family Resource Center, Affinity Groups and an Employee Assistance Program.
Future and current OSU employees can use the https://hr.oregonstate.edu/benefits/new-employees/benefits-calculator to learn more about the full value of the benefits provided at OSU.
Key Responsibilities
50% Data Collection, Processing and Procedure development
• Consult with users to identify and document routine and custom data reporting needs and purposes.
• Collect data from various OSU and external systems, including but not limited to data from or about: College employment assignments and workload (including student employees), research expenditures, research productivity, website and social media traffic, CRM, admissions processes (Slate), alumni interactions, College event attendance, space usage, student progression, course enrollments, research proposal data, expenditures.
• Clean data for internal analysis. Collaborate or coordinate in line with university definitions, standards, and data practices.
• Develop and implement strategies to enhance the accessibility of data across the organization. This includes ensuring data is organized and stored in a manner that allows easy retrieval, understanding, and use by all relevant stakeholders. Work to eliminate barriers that may hinder access to data for stakeholders.
• Prepare statistical forecasts and explain significance to CoE leadership and other stakeholders.
• Present results of analyses for CoE leadership.
• Maintain documentation of data requests and results, and organize reports, data and queries in system archies.
• Support College Leadership in accessing and managing custom reports in Academic Analysis.
• Design mechanisms for ready access to data through dashboards.
• Build models and dashboards to support ongoing decision-making in the college.
• Manage College data and data processes that may not be available centrally, such as advisor-advisee data, graduate status, awards, GTA, and ULA course assignments for use in dashboards.
• Design and manage processes and methods for tracking and informing budget allocations across the college.
• Design and manage processes for training ULAs and GTAs.
• Design and manage processes for reviewing ULA and GTA support.
40% Analysis and Research Projects
• Summarize and analyze data via summary tables, graphs, charts, statistics, and narrative reports, noting significant trends, outliers, and forecasts.
• Analyze, evaluate and use data to identify savings, reducing costs and improving operations.
• Uses data analysis to drive process improvements and develop and improve efficiencies in the College.
• Identify, plan, and organize research projects and assessment projects.
• Develop strategies for the College based on data analyses.
10% Professional Development, Service, and Other Duties as Assigned.
• Engage in professional development activities to stay current regarding emerging technology and be effective at assigned responsibilities.
• Provide service to OSU by working on College and University committees.
What You Will Need
• Commitment to fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and diverse community centered on student success.
• Ability to assess data while being cognizant of the potential for implicit bias within the data and the systems that generate or use this data.
• Demonstrated experience developing reports analyzing complex data with attention to detailed narrative and effective data visualizations to support exploration of the data as well as to effectively convey insights gleaned from the analysis. Experience with complex data such as that found at a public land grant institution.
• Advanced experience with analytics and visualization tools, such as R, Python, Tableau, Power BI and/or Excel.
• Experience with database systems, such as SQL. Experience and high attention to detail cleaning and validating complex data sets.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills related to interpreting customer needs and translating those into data solutions.
This position is designated as a critical or security-sensitive position; therefore, the incumbent must successfully complete a criminal history check and be determined to be position qualified as per University Standard: 05-010 et seq. Incumbents are required to self-report convictions and those in youth programs may have additional criminal history checks every 24 months.
What We Would Like You to Have
• Bachelor’s degree in data science, computer science, mathematics, statistics or related discipline
• Three years of additional professional experience in a field related to job duties
Working Conditions / Work Schedule
• Office Environment with potential for flexible/hybrid work. Flexible schedules and hybrid work arrangements are considered based on supervisor approval.
Special Instructions to Applicants
To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by August 10, 2024. Applications will continue to be accepted after the full consideration date, until a sufficient applicant pool has been achieved or the position is filled. The closing date is subject to change without notice to applicants.
Applications will be reviewed based on the information submitted on the employment profile with education and work history along with any other requested documentation i.e. posting specific question responses, transcripts, etc. Your profile MUST clearly show how you meet the minimum/required qualifications for the position. Resumes are NOT accepted at the application stage for this position.
Cover letters are optional for this position and will not be used for evaluating your qualifications.
Equivalent required experience is based on full-time equivalent (40 hours per week).
PLEASE NOTE: If you have volunteer experience relevant to this position, please include in the Employment History section and note length of time, average number of hours per week and major duties.
Typically, the starting salary is at the lower end of the salary range.
For additional information please contact:
Janet Knudson
Janet.knudson@oregonstate.edu
OSU commits to inclusive excellence by advancing equity and diversity in all that we do. We are an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer, and particularly encourage applications from members of historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, LGBTQ community members, and others who demonstrate the ability to help us achieve our vision of a diverse and inclusive community.
OSU will conduct a review of the National Sex Offender Public website prior to hire.
OSU is a fair chance employer committed to inclusive hiring. We encourage applications from candidates who bring a wide range of lived experience including involvement with the justice system. This job has “critical or security-sensitive” responsibilities. If you are selected as a finalist, your initial job offer will be contingent upon the results of a job-related pre-employment check (such as a background check, motor vehicle history check, sexual misconduct reference check, etc.). Background check results do not automatically disqualify a candidate. Take a look at our https://hr.oregonstate.edu/careers/background-checks website including the https://hr.oregonstate.edu/careers/candidates section for more details. If you have questions or concerns about the pre-employment check, please contact OSU’s Employee and Labor Relations team at employee.relations@oregonstate.edu.
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