Educational Data Analyst - College of Medicine

UIC is seeking a Educational Data Analyst to join our College of Medicine, Administration team. This role maintain a relational database and be responsible for aggregating, analyzing, and reporting data from multiple internal and external sources for longitudinal student assessment, program evaluation, continuous quality improvement, accreditation reporting, and research and scholarship. The Educational Data Analyst will have a keen understanding of medical education processes specific to UI College of Medicine including but not limited to admissions, curriculum, assessment, and residency match in order to inform decisions around analysis and ensure validity of data. They will provide technical guidance with regard to proper data processing methods and performance standards. Duties Responsibilities: Analyze educational data to answer complex educational and institutional questions. Conduct appropriate statistical analyses to identify trends, predictors, and disparities in student performance and outcomes. Identify and utilize additional analytical methods and approaches as needed. Translate data analysis findings into actionable insights for educational leaders and decision-makers. Develop efficient, reproducible processes for cleaning, transforming, and aggregating educational data. Clean and merge data from multiple internal and external educational data systems. Build and maintain largescale data sets, relational databases, and automated data pipelines. Utilize best practices for data cleaning, management, and queries to identify and aggregate data from multiple large databases housed within Information Resources, College and campus registrars, Admissions, and Educational Affairs. Create and maintain user-friendly data dashboards and static reports for use in program, phase, and course evaluation. Develop recurring reports for medical student academic progress including reporting quartile rank in class for M4 students and competency achievement for M1-M4 students. Support data reporting requirements for Liaison Committee on Medical Education accreditation and other institutional needs. Collect, processes, and visualizes data to help answer business questions and enable strategic decision-making. Gathers requirements, understand business needs, performs data modeling, and develops data pipelines to generate the data architecture for data analytics. Develops reproducible reporting strategies to provide insights for decision-makers. Establish and monitor processes to ensure data accuracy, completeness, consistency, security, and confidentiality. Develop and maintain documentation of data sources, definitions, workflows, analytic methods, and quality assurance procedures. Implement reproducible analytic and reporting workflows. Other duties as assigned.