Senior Data Analyst Learning Program Analytics

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Job Description

Want to use your data skills to improve how thousands of students learn
At WGU data drives decision-makingfrom course design to student support. As a Senior Data Analyst on our Learning Program Analytics team youll build tools analyses and visualizations that uncover whats working and whats notso our students get what they need when they need it.

About Institutional Analytics and Research
The Institutional Analytics and Research (IAR) team supports and enables most university teams departments and colleges to make data-informed decisions that lead to better student outcomes. Our analysts scientists researchers and managers are distributed across several teams:Institutional Research Institutional Metrics & Insights Outreach AnalyticsFaculty Analytics Learning Program Analytics and Student Success Analytics.

About the Learning Program Analytics Team
We use WGUs rich data assets to track curriculum performance identify equity gaps and support continuous improvement. Our focus is clear: empower great curriculum through rigorous actionable insight. We combine statistical rigor with meaningful impact and believe every analysis should make WGUs courses and programs stronger.

The Role: Senior Data Analyst
The Senior Data Analyst is responsible for extracting processing analyzing and reporting on data to produce rigorous actionable insights and research. They establish and maintain strong relationships with peers and leaders across IAR Program Development and Data Engineering. They perform ad hoc analyses build and maintain standard reports and data visualizations and deliver information and insights through various methods and media that privilege data storytelling and compress time-to-action.

What youll do

• Analyze course-level performance to surface improvement opportunities and equity gaps
• Build dashboards and reports in Tableau or Power BI for internal academic and product teams
• Translate business and academic needs into clear technical requirements
• Use SQL to manage and extract insights from complex multi-source data environments
• Partner with Data Engineering to resolve data quality issues and optimize pipelines
• Present findings to cross-functional teams and leadership adapting to technical and non-technical audiences
• Document logic sources and insight history to support transparency and scale
• Mentor and support junior analysts through code reviews knowledge sharing and collaborative problem-solving contributing to a culture of continuous learning on the team
• Apply statistical methods and exploratory analysis to surface patterns test hypotheses conduct impact analyses and bring quantitative depth to curriculum performance questions

What you bring

• Bachelors degree in a related field
• 5 years of experience in data analytics business intelligence institutional research or applied analytics
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and intermediate proficiency in Tableau
• Experience with descriptive statistics causal analysis inference and forecasting methods

Bonus if you have

• Experience with Python or R
• Experience with ETL development
• Familiarity with curriculum development higher education or learner success analytics
• Exposure to data management platforms (e.g. catalogs dictionaries) and analytics documentation standards

Experience in lieu of education

An equivalent combination of training experience credentials or accomplishments demonstrating the ability to perform the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements.

Work Location

• This is a full-time in-office position at WGUs headquarters in Salt Lake City UT. Youll work side-by-side with a multidisciplinary team of analysts researchers and educators committed to data-informed innovation.

What to Expect
At WGU our mission drives everything we doincluding how we hire. Our interview experience is designed to give qualified candidates the opportunity to show their best work through meaningful conversations practical problem-solving and authentic collaboration.

We thoughtfully review every application and invite forward the candidates whose experience and potential best align with the role and our mission. If selected youll hear from a recruiter or hiring manager who will guide you through the process and help you know what to expect at each stage. We aim to communicate decisions promptly and respectfully.

Heres what that typically looks like:

• Introductory call (30 minutes): Well walk you through who we are at WGU and learn about your relevant experience.
• Hiring manager interview (45 minutes)
• Technical interview (45 minutes)

Were looking forward to getting to know you and seeing how you think collaborate and build. Welcome to WGU.

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Position & Application Details

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Additional Information

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