Careers Job Description
General Description
The Office of Institutional Research and Assessment conducts a wide variety of quantitative
analyses to guide policy and evaluate interventions, academic programs, and administrative
processes at CUNY. The office collects, manages, and organizes data to support the analytic
and reporting needs of the University including mandatory federal, state and city reports, adhoc
requests, grant applications and major projects, such as enrollment management.
Reporting to the Director of Business Intelligence, the Tableau Specialist supports the Office of
Institutional Research and Assessment by developing data and research reports in Tableau.
The Tableau Specialist will create data visualizations that effectively communicate research
results to a variety of audiences, including central office and campus administrators, program
staff, collaborators, and administrative executives.
General Duties:
• Supports policy development and decision-making through Tableau report development, data
analysis, and reporting;
• Provides data visualizations based on statistical and/or quantitative analysis for distribution to
campus stakeholders and program staff implementing the initiative's interventions;
• Develops effective formats for presenting and illustrating findings;
• Identifies and defines topics and opportunities to improve student outcomes;
• Works with ETL developers to design data structures for financial aid and student data
appropriate for use with Tableau;
• Presents findings to a variety of constituencies and participates in developing
recommendations; and
• Performs related duties as assigned.
Position is currently scheduled to end on June 30th 2021.
Other Duties
Other key duties will include, but not be limited to the following:
• Create static and dynamic data reports and visualizations using Tableau;
• Create data models and specifications for ETL developers to ensure data quality and
reusability;
• Trains and provides support to other staff in the use of Tableau;
• Respond to mandatory reporting from the Student Persistent Initiative's funders;
• Collaborate with other researchers on various studies and research questions; and,
• Prepare graphic, tabular, and written reports and oral presentations of findings.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree and two years' related experience required
Other Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:
• A long history creating reports in Tableau;
• An advanced degree with formal training in quantitative research methods;
• Experience designing and building complex datasets, spreadsheets, tables, and graphics,
conducting in-depth analyses on multiple sources of data, and using sophisticated data
models;
• Experience writing code in statistical computing platforms (Python, SAS, SPSS, Stata and/or
R);
• Experience with SQL databases;
• Ability to work independently and also function effectively in a collaborative office with diverse
internal and external constituents of various levels;
• Detail oriented and accurate with strong quantitative, analytical, evaluation, and research
skills;
• Excellent writing, oral, and interpersonal communication skills; and
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to establish plans, manage multiple and conflicting
priorities and meet deadlines in a time-sensitive and dynamic office.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout 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
Key Features
Office of Institutional Research
Full Time
Depends on Qualifications
Apr 14, 2020 (Or Until Filled)