<p>The Director is the lead expert, developer, and trainer for fundraising intelligence efforts within Advancement and External Affairs' (AEA) Advancement Systems, Services and Intelligence department. The organized efforts of the Director benefit AEA as well as the schools, colleges, and units with informed, interactive reports that foster intelligent decision making and planning. They are responsible for overseeing data retrieval, manipulation, strategic analysis of data and creation of reports and data visualization to support work and inform fund raising decisions. The Director serves as the lead creative and content developer for the department and as a critical liaison to AEA's leadership team to ensure that data resources are leveraged optimally to inform performance evaluation and fundraising strategies.</p> <p>Education and Experience</p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's degree in social sciences, information technology, business or closely related field. Advanced degree preferred. </li><li>At least two (2) years' experience in data analysis, visualization, and management of large data sets. </li><li>Proven experience in a leadership role, ideally with team management responsibilities. </li><li>Understand the broader organizational goals and align team efforts to achieve those goals. </li><li>Experience with databases and large data sets (5+ years) and building reports. </li><li>Demonstrated ability to analyze, synthesize, and clearly report on a high volume of information. </li><li>Excellent customer service skills. </li></ul> <p>Skills and Knowledge</p> <ul> <li>Demonstrated knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques of developing queries and configurable joins for reporting and analysis. </li><li>Demonstrates knowledge and experience working with data visualization tools such as Power Bl, Tableau or QlikView. </li><li>Working knowledge of SQL, HTML, and CSS to create queries, reports, forms, portals and dashboards and desire to increase proficiency. </li><li>Demonstrates the ability and knowledge of how to develop and analyze results by detecting patterns, brainstorming, observing, interpreting data, and basing insights on the multiple factors and options available. </li><li>High level of enthusiasm for building innovative data solutions. </li><li>Demonstrates the capacity to motivate and engage team members, and a solid understanding of organizational dynamics. </li><li>Ability to work both independently and collaboratively. Demonstrate flexibility to successfully manage multiple priorities, produce quality work, and meet strict deadlines. </li><li>Demonstrated knowledge of methods of statistical analysis, both descriptive and inferential. </li><li>Experience in data manipulation and transformation, including creation of useful variables and management of inconsistent or missing data. </li><li>Experience in interacting professionally with a diverse population within a variety of administrative levels. </li></ul> <p>Responsibilities</p> <ul> <li>Lead and direct approaches to divisional data mining. </li><li>Demonstrate mastery of techniques and best practices. Including, but not limited to; Data mining; Cluster analysis; Machine learning; Forecasting; Data Visualization; Dashboard Development; Segmentation; and Database Querying. Collaborate to understand unit business needs, formulate, and complete end-to-end analysis that includes data gathering, ongoing scaled deliverables, and presentations. </li><li>Leverage advanced data analysis skills to synthesize information and disseminate results through well-designed, visually engaging dashboards, reports, maps, charts, graphs, and presentations. </li><li>Plan, develop and create data-driven resources for AEA teams. Includes, but is not limited to, dashboards, forecasting and predictive models, CRM-based query building blocks, CRM system tutorials, and data manipulation guides. </li><li>Develop and automate reports, iteratively build and prototype dashboards to provide insights at scale, solving for analytical needs. </li><li>Facilitate implementation of work product and ensure accuracy. </li><li>Work strategically with colleagues to design, test, create and implement new reporting and dashboard solutions. </li><li>Consistently follow standard work processes and documentation requirements. </li><li>Recommend improvements to work processes to increase efficiency while maintaining quality of work. </li><li>Continuously improve technical and leadership skills through training and development. </li><li>Train and guide AEA staff to facilitate data retrieval and querying processes, Excel-based data manipulation, and report writing/ data visualization. </li><li>Work in an advisory capacity to troubleshoot data analytics processes and ensure that deliverables adhere to industry and division standards and best practices. </li><li>Lead the development and implementation of advanced analytics including segmentation, optimization, prescriptive analytics, and machine learning algorithm & recommendation to solve business problems. </li><li>Operate as a subject matter expert on statistical analysis, test and design of experiment, analysis methodology, predictive and cluster modeling, as well as post impact analysis. </li><li>Lead and create innovative analyses and interpretations of current and potential donor data research representative of all units to meet data needs for strategy development. Including retrieval, summary and analysis of philanthropic activity, affinity, and donor potential. </li><li>Lead university-wide development staff in the identification of new prospects through data modeling, cluster analyses, and segmentation </li></ul> <p>Physical Requirements</p> <p>Not Applicable</p> <p>Tools/Equipment</p> <p>Not Applicable</p> <p>Application Instructions</p> <p>In addition to completing an online application, please attach a resume and cover letter.</p>