Job Title: OIRA Data Analyst
PVN ID: VP-1911-003376
Category: Research
Location: OFFICE OF EXEC VC & UNIVERSITY PROVOST

Job Description

General Description

The part-time analyst will work in the Office of Institutional Research under the supervision of the Director in collaboration with the WiTNY team to conduct analyses of CUNY student data for decision support and reporting of those programs. The hours worked are flexible but it is preferable for the analyst to work approximately 20 hours a week.

About WiTNY

WiTNY (Women in Technology and Entrepreneurship in New York) was established in 2016 as a corporate-funded, multi-year partnership between Cornell Tech and the City University of New York with a mission is to facilitate, encourage and enable a significant increase in the participation of women in both higher education and entrepreneurship in fields related to technology in the New York market. WiTNY’s goal is to double the number of women graduating from CUNY with degrees in computer science and related tech disciplines by delivering programs in three key areas: 1. Curriculum Innovation 2. Career Access and 3. Community Development.

Specific Responsibilities:

  • Fulfilling requests by the WiTNY program, against the CUNY Office of Institutional Research databases.
  • Designing and executing recurring database queries as well individual queries designed to answer specific questions, including the impact of specific programs as a function of student, campus, major, etc.
  • Formatting, proofreading, and checking data for reporting materials and research reports
  • Preparing tabular and graphical presentations of data using Excel, PDF, PowerPoint, Tableau, etc.
  • Working with a variety of analytic tools to query, analyze and report data including but not limited to SPSS, Stata, R and Oracle software products
  • Providing support for survey development, administration and analysis
  • Other tasks related to queries, data analytics, interpretation, summarization and presentation as requested.

 

Other Duties

Developing alignment of process and data collection with other CUNY programs.

Qualifications

Candidates must have a baccalaureate degree and should havetwo years of related experience. Candidates should possess knowledge of basic statistics and have experience analyzing data using SPSS, Stata, R, or similar data analysis software. Graduate work in a discipline requiring quantitative and/or qualitative analysis, research methods, or survey questionnaire design is desirable. An interest in higher education research is also desirable. Candidates should be proficient working with Microsoft Office products. Candidates should have a great attention to detail and possess oral and written skills necessary for communicating complex ideas and technical issues.

RFCUNY Benefits

RFCUNY Employee Benefits and Accruals

About the Research Foundation

The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).

RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Americans with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer. It is the policy of the Research Foundation of CUNY to provide equal employment opportunities free of discrimination based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic violence victim status, arrest record, criminal conviction history, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Key Features

Department
Status
Part Time
Pay Range
$42.95
Hour(s) a week
20.00-30.00
Closing Date
Dec 03, 2019 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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