Career Success Reporting and Insights Graduate Assistant

Career Success Reporting and Insights Graduate Assistant

The Career Success Reporting and Insights team's mission is to communicate the benefits of UT by reporting how students' experiences impact their professional development and career outcomes. The Reporting and Insights Graduate Assistant will play a vital role in accomplishing this mission. More specifically, the Graduate Assistant will work with the Director and Associate Director and assist with data collection, cleaning, analyses and visualizations. Researching market trends is also an important aspect of this role to benchmark how Longhorns compare to students at peer institutions.

Responsibilities

• Clean, organize, and manage data through the View email address on click.appcast.io and other Career Success platform
• Analyze career, experiential learning, and employer data
• Develop reports and data visualizations to inform Career Success and its stakeholders of various career outcomes and trends
• Support special initiatives, such as bespoke assessment design, survey programming, or data pipeline projects
• Collect data from external sources
• Prepare presentations and professional development materials
• Attend team meetings
• Document processes for future replication and enhancement

Required Qualifications

• Graduate student with experience in data coding, analysis and visualization with interest in career outcomes
• Must be enrolled in at least 9 credit hours, and in good academic standing
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail
• Advanced skills with Excel and experience with other Microsoft Office suite products
• Experience with business intelligence software (Tableau and Power BI)
• Knowledge of social science research and quantitative methods
• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, inquisitive nature, collaborative spirit, and initiative-taker
• Ability to work in a start-up environment, where deadlines and projects evolve

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with statistical software such as SPSS, SQL, R, etc.
• Confidence in translating ambiguous questions and messy data into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders
• Knowledge of career literature
• Demonstrated strategic thinking skills

Salary Range

$25.00/hour

Working Conditions

• Work to be performed in typical office environment and on hybrid basis

Required Materials

• Resume/CV
• A 1-2 paragraph answer to the following prompt: "Please describe a time when you had to analyze a complex or messy dataset. What was the central question you were trying to answer, what steps did you take, and how did you translate your findings into a clear, actionable insight for a non-technical audience?"
• Sample of data analysis work

- E.g. data visualization, dashboard, 1-pager.

- Please submit as a Word doc or PDF. 2-pages max.