Matheson Fellow
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Amherst has taken a leadership role among highly selective liberal arts colleges and universities in successfully diversifying the racial socioeconomic and geographic profile of its student body. The College is similarly committed to enriching its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty administration and staff.
Job Description:
Amherst College invites applications for the Matheson Fellow position. The Matheson Fellow is a fulltime oneyear term position (with the possibility of renewal) starting at $21.54/hour commensurate with experience. Given Amhersts distinction as one of the most diverse liberal arts colleges in the country the successful candidate will demonstrate the ways in which they bring value to and will work towards supporting a broadly diverse community.
The Matheson Fellow position provides a recent Amherst graduate the opportunity to be an integral part of the Office of Institutional Research professional staff. Working collaboratively within the Office of Institutional Research team the Matheson Fellow will provide analytic support to a diverse group of College leadership faculty and staff in order to facilitate the effective and strategic use of data in planning and decisionmaking activities. The Matheson Fellow will be responsible for designing improved mechanisms to share college data with campus partners such as interactive dashboards and webbased infographics with a particular focus on the Colleges survey data.
Summary of Duties and Responsibilities:
Assist IR staff members with the synthesis of raw data into insightful summaries to meet a range of work may entail identifying and collecting appropriate data data cleaning mining management and appropriate statistical analyses of data; constructing effective data displays to communicate key points; and presenting data both orally and in writing to diverse campus audiences
Assist IR staff with the creation of interactive dashboards for key campus partners using the Tableau software suite
Assist IR staff in the creation of a system to normalize historical survey data and integrate this information with the colleges primary data sources
Support the Director of Institutional Research & Registrar Services by providing analytical support to other offices as required
Qualifications:
Required
Recent Bachelors Degree from Amherst College
Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel
Excellent analytical ability and a familiarity with statistical methods
Proficiencies in statistical and dashboarding software such as R and Tableau
Excellent verbal and written communication interpersonal and presentation skills
Demonstrated organizational and time management skills including prioritizing multiple tasks
Experience working and learning within diverse teams and a commitment to effectively serving a diverse student population
Close consistent attention to detail
Preferred
A major in mathematics statistics computer science or a social science with significant quantitative experience or coursework.
Programming skills such as Python are desirable but not required
Amherst College offers many opportunities for professional growth and development continued learning and career advancement.
Amherst College is pleased to provide a comprehensive highly competitive benefits package that meets the needs of staff and faculty and their families. Benefits are an important part of our overall compensation so it is critical that you review all of the options to ensure itmeets your total compensation requirements. Click here for Benefits Information.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
