Research Analyst

Title: Research Analyst
Agency: Northern VA Community College
Location: Fairfax County - 059
FLSA: Exempt
Hiring Range: $80,000 - $90,000
Full Time or Part Time: Full Time
Additional Detail
Job Description:
General Description:
This role is responsible for analyzing data, conducting research, and communicating insights into the Northern Virginia job market and student employment outcomes. This work is a critical component of advancing the College's mission to "ensure our region and the Commonwealth of Virginia have an educated population and a globally competitive workforce."
The Research Analyst will report to the Associate Vice President for the Office of Strategic Insights, which also house the College's institutional research and planning and assessment teams.This is an entry level position.
Duties and Tasks:

• Actively monitor and assess important economic indicators.
• Carry out exploratory and statistical analyses of core labor market, economic, and demographic data sources to identify and communicate regional trends that may impact the College and its students.
• Review labor market data related to current and proposed credit and non-credit programs to determine alignment with workforce needs.
• Respond to ad hoc requests for labor market data and analysis from internal and external stakeholders.
• Assist in developing and maintaining a suite of data resources and publications, both static and interactive, that effectively communicate labor market data to non-technical audiences.
• Write original research content including reports, articles, blog posts, and social media posts.
• Engage with other organizations to carry out collaborative research projects.
• Assist with and provide presentations and workshops to NOVA faculty, staff, and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues in the Office of Strategic Insights, as well as other College staff, faculty, and external stakeholders.
• Provide research and data analysis support for other Office of Strategic Insights projects as needed.

Minimum Qualifications:
KSAs:

• Strong analytic and computer skills.
• A curious mind and passion for problem-solving
• Ability to clean and wrangle data in a variety of formats and structures to prepare for analysis.
• Ability to provide basic descriptive and statistical analysis of quantitative data, including identification of meaningful trends.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including the use of formulas and PivotTables.
• Skill in presenting data and communicating insights to diverse, non-technical audiences.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Basic knowledge of, or the ability to learn, how to gather and interpret information from a variety of labor market data sources, including datasets from the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics, as well as proprietary data tools and job posting aggregators such as Emsi Analyst, JobsEQ, etc.
• Ability to develop and manage strong working relationships with a range of stakeholders, including students, staff, faculty members, and community/employer partners.
• Ability to communicate with an ethnically and culturally diverse community, as well as integrate considerations of diversity, opportunity, and inclusion into data analysis and reporting.
• Ability to present comfortably in front of small and large groups.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively.
• Must be comfortable asking for, accepting, and providing constructive feedback.
• Thorough attention to detail.
• Ability to simultaneously execute and deliver on multiple projects.

Required Qualifications :

• Some experience in data reporting.
• Some experience in visualizing data, whether in dashboard or infographic format, utilizing Excel, Tableau, PowerBI or other related tools.
• Some experience in Microsoft Office tools, especially Microsoft Excel.
• Some working experience performing research or data analysis .

Preferred Qualifications:

• Some experience working with higher education and/or labor market data.
• Some experience of Tableau or Power BI.
• Some experience of R, SAS, or another statistical software or programming language is a plus.
• Some experience of ArcGIS is a plus.