Data Analyst

Performs data collection, and analysis on educational and operational activities to provide insight and analysis on an extensive range of education associated information. support to the analytics team and leading the development of analytical solutions.

Primary responsibilities and duties: -

• Performs data evaluation and analysis on educational and operational activities to provide insight and analysis on an extensive range of education related information.
• Develop reports, dashboards & scorecards, data exploration, and visual analytics using existing and emerging technologies and tools.
• To produce research and analysis using internal and external data to facilitate and inform the production of a variety of reports highlighting trends and issues, generating insight to identify what our data is telling us, what this means for the organization and how to improve the performance of our schools and departments.
• Analyze education and related data from internal and external providers/systems and provide appropriate insights and reporting to enable school to improve school and student outcomes.
• The ability to take raw data from numerous education providers and systems, match disparate datasets and turn it into clear and usable insights and reports.
• Develop implement and support timely, sustainable reporting and analysis for the department.
• Collaborating with colleagues for appropriate data and do the analysis based on school’s requirement.
• During analysis if any data anomaly, data quality issue or performance issue is flagged by the teachers, report it to the data assessment specialist in school.
• Support the education data and analysis strategy to ensure data is recorded/captured, consistent, accessible, and usable going forward.
• Handling School Management system across for the group schools for the academic modules.
• Validate assessment scheme structures created with colleagues to make sure that the data captured is meaningful and precise.
• Provide training to relevant stake holders on any new features if added in School Management System/Analytics tools.
• Analyzing internal and external data and presenting it in professional formats for both internal assessments, external assessments data and for KHDA Inspection purposes.
• Support the design and maintenance of data systems and databases; this includes fixing coding errors, cleaning and prepping data and other data-related problems.
• Develop quality solutions using Microsoft Business Intelligence tools (Excel, Power BI) and related technologies using DAX expressions and power query.
• To support their line manager in researching and evaluating new data analysis software solutions and assess their potential value to the organization.
• Liaise and collaborate with internal expert advisors, other department representatives, and external developers and stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in information management, data analytics, computer science, or a similar field.
• 3+ years' experience as a data specialist/analyst.

Required Skills:

• A relevant background with either a degree and/or exposure to statistical analysis, experience of using some or all the following packages: MS Excel, SQL, Power BI.
• Excellent analytic and problem-solving skills, with experience applying these skills to prep and analyses large, complex, and multi-dimensional data sets.
• Experience of creating and presenting information and analysis clearly and concisely to colleagues at all levels, developing data stories that engage and inform stakeholders and clients.
• Experience of data preparation, data quality checking and advising on data issues.
• Must have high level of mathematical ability.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills in English
• Presentation Skills
• Stakeholder interaction
• Good team player
• Problem-solving