Data Analyst/Report Writer 2

Title: Data Analyst/Report Writer 2
Client: State of Texas (Texas Education Agency )
Remote
Duration: Long term
 
Short Summary :
The Data Analyst/Report technical writer performs highly advanced work related to special education and special populations data collection and reporting activities and projects. 
 
Essential functions:
 

• Develops and writes data documentation, analytical requirements, business rules, workflows, and data calendar/timelines for existing and new data projects using simple, clear, unambiguous, and concise language.
• Oversees the planning, design, scope, structure, creation, analysis, and maintenance of SAS programs, datasets, data reporting systems, and reports.
• Develops and manages extensive quality assurance and quality control checks of SAS programs and workflows to improve existing programs and processes including comprehensive documentation.
• Plans, studies, research, and evaluates current information and data systems and recommends changes as needed.

Other Special Requirements :

• Excellent communication skills with ability to express ideas clearly verbally and in writing.
• Strong attention to detail
• A desire to self-reflect, give/receive feedback, and continuously improve.
• Detail-oriented and efficient work habits
• Effective at time management, setting priorities, and handling changing priorities in a positive and patient manner.
• Organizational skills, to work with the vast array of information gathered and to cope with rapidly changing information.
• Writing skills, to communicate information effectively to users, customers, managers, and technical staff.
• Analytical skills, to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding, distinguish presented user.
• requests from the underlying true needs and distinguish solution ideas from requirements.
• Multi-tasking skills to handle a large body of projects simultaneously and to manage varying levels of work intensity.
• Ability to understand, analyze, and create technical documentation.
• Experience assimilating inputs from many different sources and present a concise synthesis.

 
Required Skills :YearsRequired/PreferredExperience4RequiredExperience with SAS programming or similar statistical programming language3RequiredEducation: Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university3RequiredExperience working with administrative data3RequiredExperience developing technical documentation3RequiredExperience with MS Office suite, especially Word and Excel2PreferredExperience working with education data