Assistant Director for Decision Support

University of Delaware

Newark, DE

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Agile Programming Methodologies, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Automation, Budgeting, Business Intelligence Software, Business Processes, Compensation and Benefits, Cost Analysis, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, Database Design, Decision Support, Documentation, Financial Analysis, Financial Modeling, Forecasting, GitHub, Industrial Engineering, Information Technology & Information Systems, Mathematics, Operations Research, Project/Program Management, Prototyping, Quality Control, Regulatory Compliance, Relational Databases (RDBMS), Reporting Dashboards, SQL Databases, Strategic Planning, Systems Analysis, Tableau, Team Lead/Manager, User Groups
LOCATION
Newark, DE
POSTED
12 days ago

Work type

  • Staff 1

College or VP Area

  • VP Finance & Deputy Treasurer 1

Locations

  • Newark, DE 1

Categories

Employment Type

  • Full Time 1

Staff & Administrative Areas

  • Institutional Research & Planning 1

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Assistant Director for Decision Support

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College / VP Area: VP Finance & Deputy Treasurer

Work type: Staff

Location: Newark, DE

Categories: Institutional Research & Planning, Full Time

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Under general direction of the AVP, Finance & Cost Analysis, the Assistant Director will support the university's central analytic platform and Anaplan user community, working in close collaboration within the Department of Decision Support and the broader university community to ensure access to quality data products, access and training needed for strategic decision-making.

Duties include: review new and existing data and information products and ensure that access, documentation, and the user community at large are resourced for success; design, develop and deploy sophisticated Anaplan financial, budget and student models; support the data governance process at the university, evaluating, understanding, and documenting business process at all levels across campus, and providing unbiased centralized perspective of the distributed data needs of the campus and how they interrelate; supervise a team of technical and analytic staff assigned to work on disparate administrative data systems and support their creation of information products for university decision-makers; prototype and build Tableau dashboards and Anaplan workspaces using existing data models; lead Agile development processes and manage the Department's portfolio of projects and requests; establish data models, data products, and business processes, and maintain appropriate documentation, using relevant tools, such as GitHub; collaborate with stakeholders to organize and structure the university's data systems to support analytics, integrated planning, and evidence-based decision making; and ensure quality control and development standards for new data products, systems, and platforms; work with stakeholders in the development of mid and long-range predictive enrollment, space, staffing, and financial models that support strategic planning efforts and executive decision-making.

Requires a Bachelor's degree in Mathematical Science, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Information Systems, or a related field and 6 years of experience or alternatively, a Master's degree in same and 4 years of experience creating reusable data sources from an enterprise data warehouse (e.g. AWS Redshift), designing and deploying financial, budget, forecasting, and student models, using relational databases and SQL, designing databases and data warehouses, coordinating large user groups of administrative data platforms, performing Agile project management, data governance and regulatory compliance, and using business intelligence and analytics tools (e.g., Tableau) for process automation and efficiency optimization. Remote work permitted within the same MSA 3 days per week.

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The University of Delaware does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, marital status, disability, religion, age, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law in its employment, educational programs and activities, admissions policies, and scholarship and loan programs as required by Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and other applicable statutes and University policies. The University of Delaware also prohibits unlawful harassment including sexual harassment and sexual violence.

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Position Location Closes Assistant Director for Decision Support Newark, DE Under general direction of the AVP, Finance & Cost Analysis, the Assistant Director will support the university's central analytic platform and Anaplan user community, working in close collaboration within the Department of Decision Support and the broader university community to ensure access to quality data products, access and training needed for strategic decision-making.

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