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WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY Lead Product Owner - Data Analyst in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah
If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career.
Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.
The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.
At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:
Pay Range: $106,700.00 - $165,400.00
Job Description
Job Profile Summary
The Institutional Analytics and Research (IAR) team supports and enables most university teams, departments, and colleges to make data-informed decisions that lead to better student outcomes. Our analysts, scientists, researchers, and managers are distributed across several teams: Faculty Experience Analytics, Institutional Research, Learning Analytics, Outreach Analytics, and Student Success Analytics.
The Lead Data Analyst (Product Owner) drives the design, creation, implementation, and adoption of Core Data Products, combining technical expertise in reporting, dashboarding, and data infrastructure, with a strong understanding of WGU's objectives.
They establish and maintain strong relationships with peers and leaders across IAR, Data Engineering, Product Management, Finance, EdTech, and Faculty staff. They play an instrumental role in the measurement of the university's performance by performing ad hoc analyses, building standard reports and data visualizations, and delivering information and insights through a variety of methods and media that privilege data storytelling and compress time-to-action.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities
Project and Initiative Leadership: Drives cross-functional tasks, activities, and medium-scale projects with high levels of autonomy, confidence, and collaboration with peers and partners.
Requirement Analysis: Drives the documentation of data, analytics, and research needs in projects of high complexity with a student and equity-centered lens, collaborating with peers, cross-functional partners, faculty staff, and leaders. Leads the translation of user stories into technical requirements.
Expectation Management: Sets and manages expectations about complex analytics tasks and activities through clear, timely, and effective communication with partners and stakeholders.
Knowledge Management and Documentation: Creates and organizes information about processes, projects, operations, data assets, and insights from analyses and research, making it accessible in ways that increase the university's knowledge and efficiency. Writes and interprets technical documentation (e.g. Entity-Relationship, Conceptual, Logical, and Physical data... For full info follow application link.
Western Governors Univeristy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disabili ty, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.