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Associate Director, BigFuture Analytics
College Board - Governance Higher Education and Membership
Location: This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB
offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and
Wednesday in office)
Type: This is a full-time position
About the Team
The Higher Ed and BigFuture Reporting and Analytics team is a small team
of six with big impact, responsible for delivering insights to their
colleagues across Higher Ed and BigFuture product, program, sales, and
marketing functions. They are relied upon to drive clear visibility on
student and higher ed engagement, highlighting areas of strength and
opportunity, and building resources that power new insights that can be
leveraged across teams. Reporting to the Executive Director, you will
deliver insights, resources, and infrastructure to support program and
product strategy, insights, outcomes, and innovation.
About the Opportunity
As the Associate Director, BigFuture Analytics, you will be focused on
driving student engagement in our college planning and connection
ecosystem, using data to (1) evaluate the team\'s progress towards key
results, (2) help activate program, product, marketing, and field staff
on the areas of greatest opportunity. You will develop forecasts on key
program and product metrics, manage and extend key tracking and outcome
dashboards, and deliver actionable insights that help team members
better engage students in key college-going activities on BigFuture.org,
BigFuture School and related offerings.
You will bring your passion for data, your analytical and problem
solving skills, and your collaborative energy to drive action in service
of our goals of connecting more students with postsecondary success and
scholarships, particularly for under-served student populations.
In this role, you will:
Deliver, enhance and extend reports and analytics (60%)
- Develop and own key program and product data reporting packages,
dashboards, and narrative updates on student participation to serve
business, product, marketing, business, and field teams. Ensure that
all stakeholders, including leadership, have clear visibility into
progress against key metrics, including critical trend, YOY, and
business cycle benchmarks and context.
- Analyze data to identify promising opportunities for improving
student engagement. Develop insights on student behavior by segment,
seeking to understand which students take which college-going
actions across different channels.
- Generate projections to inform goal setting and financial forecasts.
Build and maintain tools and resources for internal teams (40%)
- Build interactive dashboards and related tools to provide teams with
the access to data and insights they need to drive improved
outcomes. Be an evangelist who equips the larger team to self-serve
findings and analysis.
- Partner with IT to ensure internal systems allow for robust
analytics and reporting.
- Partner across cross-functional teams toshape and deliver on data
requests that support their work. Synthesize and explain findings so
that colleagues and leadership understand what is happening and what
to do.
- Contribute to strategic initiatives to meet the needs of both
students and higher ed, which may include external benchmarking and
analyses, or proposing new ways to leverage our wealth of data to
deliver insights about and for students during the college-going
process.
About You
You have:
- A Bachelor\'s degree and 2-5 years of relevant experience
- Exceptional analytical and quantitative skills, including ability to
analyze large and complex datasets (proficiency in Excel, SQL and
programming language such as R, Stata, or SAS); experience and
facility with data dashboard and visualization tools
- Strong ability to communicate complex quantitative insights simply,
via writing, visualization and verbal summary and presentation
(Preferred experience with data visualization software:
- Proven capability to structure and solve analytical problems,
starting with the big picture, identifying the needs and questions,
and designing effective reports and insights
- An entrepreneurial mindset that allows you to identify the best way
to get impactful work done in a matrixed organization
- Energy for and commitment to iteratively and continuously improve
reporting by deeply understanding and partnering with stakeholders
(data-savvy and not)
- Flexibility, curiosity, and initiative to tackle problems: you
delight in digging deep into data to uncover new insights about
students
- Willingness and ability travel 3-5 times a year to team meetings
and/or conferences
- You must be authorized to work in the US
About Our Process
Application review will begin immedia