What are the responsibilities and job description for the Information Technology Technical Associate - Office of Institutional Research & Effectiveness position at University of Illinois Springfield?
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About UIS: Located in the state capital, the University of Illinois Springfield is one of three members of the University of Illinois system. The University serves more than 4,000 students in 44 graduate and 56 undergraduate programs. You are encouraged to visit the university web page at http://www.uis.edu .
Application deadline: 2/13/2025
Minimum starting salary: $30.76 per hour/7.5 hour workday
Summary:
Provides comprehensive institutional data to support informed decision-making. Creates and compiles data reports that meet federal, state, system, and the institution's needs. Explores new methods for delivering and visualizing data. Serves as IT project manager for OIRE initiatives, including interfacing with other university IT groups and external vendors. Supports a culture of data literacy through interactions with internal constituents and collaborating with the OIRE team on professional development initiatives.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Associate’s Degree (60 semester hours) equals eighteen months (18 months)
90 semester hours equals two (2) years (24 months)
Bachelor’s Degree (120 semester hours) equals three (3) years (36 months)
Experience with Business Intelligence, Tableau, PowerBI, R programming, SPSS, competent interpersonal communication skills, project tracking
Master’s Degree
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Ability to exercise initiative, independence, and maturity and should require limited supervisory intervention.
Ability to work effectively with a variety of administrative units, as well as students, faculty, and staff of diverse backgrounds to ensure services are developed and delivered with appropriate input from all interested parties.
Employment Policies and other information:
Failure to accurately describe work experience, or failure to submit college transcripts may result in an applicant not being admitted to the exam.
UIS an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer with strong institutional commitment to recruitment and retention of a diverse and inclusive community. Women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. As a qualifying federal contractor, the University of Illinois System uses E-Verify to verify employment eligibility .
The University of Illinois may conduct background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer of employment. Background checks will be performed in compliance with state and federal law.
The University of Illinois System requires candidates selected for hire to disclose any documented finding of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment and to authorize inquiries to current or former employers regarding findings of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment. For more information, visit Policy on Consideration of Sexual Misconduct in Prior Employment .
Benefits eligible positions include a comprehensive benefits package which offers: Health, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability & AD&D insurance; a defined benefit pension plan; paid leaves such as Vacation, Holiday and Sick; tuition waivers for employees and dependents. Please use this web link for a complete list of Employee Benefits: https://www.hr.uillinois.edu/benefits .
UIS employment in this role is not covered by Social Security, and instead, is covered by the State University Retirement System.
About UIS: Located in the state capital, the University of Illinois Springfield is one of three members of the University of Illinois system. The University serves more than 4,000 students in 44 graduate and 56 undergraduate programs. You are encouraged to visit the university web page at http://www.uis.edu .
Application deadline: 2/13/2025
Minimum starting salary: $30.76 per hour/7.5 hour workday
Summary:
Provides comprehensive institutional data to support informed decision-making. Creates and compiles data reports that meet federal, state, system, and the institution's needs. Explores new methods for delivering and visualizing data. Serves as IT project manager for OIRE initiatives, including interfacing with other university IT groups and external vendors. Supports a culture of data literacy through interactions with internal constituents and collaborating with the OIRE team on professional development initiatives.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Extract data from various sources using Business Objects, SQL, Excel, and other data tools to create, validate, compile, analyze, and distribute reports on a scheduled and ad-hoc basis.
- Develop a thorough familiarity of institutional data sources and the appropriate use of each. Test, troubleshoot, and validate the accuracy of data and reports. Resolve data quality issues.
- Provide the OIRE team and institutional leaders with timely, accurate, and relevant information for data-informed decision making.
- Create dynamic dashboards for internal and external audiences using Tableau and/or PowerBI. Ensure proper access.
- Assist in the creation and sharing of reports and visualizations for the UIS Fact Book and the OIRE website.
- Act as IT project management lead for various OIRE initiatives, including EDDIE/Webi and data visualization tools. Create and maintain documentation to support OIRE data & IT functions, including project, processes, and report creation. Maintains a production calendar of all reports and technical tasks.
- Provide guidance and support in interpreting data insights, reports, and visualizations. Enhance data literacy through interactions with internal constituents and collaborating with the OIRE team on professional development initiatives that support the use and understanding of OIRE resources.
- Collaborate on software implementation, testing, and maintenance. Monitors and evaluates new software products/vendors to enhance processes. Provide feedback and recommendations for enhancements projects. Prioritize, plan, test, and implement such projects.
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Any one or any combination totaling two (2) years (24 months) from the following categories:
- College coursework which includes Information Technology (IT), IT Management, Programming, IT systems, or a closely related discipline, as measured by the following conversion table or its proportional equivalent:
Associate’s Degree (60 semester hours) equals eighteen months (18 months)
90 semester hours equals two (2) years (24 months)
Bachelor’s Degree (120 semester hours) equals three (3) years (36 months)
- Work experience in IT-related functions, such as hardware/software support, programming, network design, network engineering, IT systems integration, or closely related field.
- Minimum of 1 year of demonstrated experience with SQL;
- Minimum of 1 year of demonstrated experience with HTML;
- Minimum of 1 year of demonstrated experience with Excel; and
- Minimum of 1 year of demonstrated experience with IT Project Management
Experience with Business Intelligence, Tableau, PowerBI, R programming, SPSS, competent interpersonal communication skills, project tracking
Master’s Degree
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Ability to exercise initiative, independence, and maturity and should require limited supervisory intervention.
Ability to work effectively with a variety of administrative units, as well as students, faculty, and staff of diverse backgrounds to ensure services are developed and delivered with appropriate input from all interested parties.
Employment Policies and other information:
Failure to accurately describe work experience, or failure to submit college transcripts may result in an applicant not being admitted to the exam.
UIS an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer with strong institutional commitment to recruitment and retention of a diverse and inclusive community. Women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. As a qualifying federal contractor, the University of Illinois System uses E-Verify to verify employment eligibility .
The University of Illinois may conduct background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer of employment. Background checks will be performed in compliance with state and federal law.
The University of Illinois System requires candidates selected for hire to disclose any documented finding of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment and to authorize inquiries to current or former employers regarding findings of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment. For more information, visit Policy on Consideration of Sexual Misconduct in Prior Employment .
Benefits eligible positions include a comprehensive benefits package which offers: Health, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability & AD&D insurance; a defined benefit pension plan; paid leaves such as Vacation, Holiday and Sick; tuition waivers for employees and dependents. Please use this web link for a complete list of Employee Benefits: https://www.hr.uillinois.edu/benefits .
UIS employment in this role is not covered by Social Security, and instead, is covered by the State University Retirement System.
- You will not pay Social Security taxes and your earning will not be on your Social Security Record. (Your record will, however, show your Medicare wages.
- Your pension from the State Universities Retirement System may affect the amount of your:
- Social Security benefit and
- Social Security benefit as a spouse
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