Data and Reporting Lead

Job Description

The Data and Reporting Lead oversees the team that develops and maintains the highest levels of data competency, accuracy standards and reporting capacity across the Institute. The Lead develops strategy for leveraging data to gain a deeper insight into IIE’s business and impact on international education. Individual builds a vision on how data and metrics can support IIE’s long term strategy and enhance IIE’s internal operations. The Lead champions and promotes best practices in data management for the full term of the data life-cycle. Individual works closely with IIE’s Legal and IT Security teams to ensure the strictest standards of PII protection and data security in all aspects of data management and reporting.

Essential Functions:

• Manages overall data architecture and manages, develops, prioritizes and recommends initiatives to improve and build upon the data architecture to support the business.
• Ensures consistency of process and usage, and champions best practices in data management Oversees data accuracy processes, goals and assessment.
• Ensures resolution of data conflicts between systems and within systems’ data universe.
• Works with internal stakeholders to develop strategies for leveraging data to gain a deeper insight into IIE’s business, impact on international education, and IIE’s story.
• Ensures rigorous adherence to IIE policies regarding PII protection and data security. Oversees data expiry practices and establishes and implements processes for data archival and expiry.
• Manages and develops the staffing of the Data & Reporting unit; champions team collaboration; monitors and develops career paths within the unit. Make recommendations concerning employment, termination, performance evaluations, salary actions, and other personnel actions.
• Responsible for user experience with data and reporting tools.
• Member of the Knowledge Management Cabinet.
• Responsible for feedback processes in all unit activity.

IIE Job Dimensions:

• Decision Making: Applies judgment to analyze complex situations where procedures are still under development. Makes recommendations on IIE’s operational policies and approves procedures and/or programs and activities within an assigned department. Is given considerable independence of action to achieve desired outcomes/results.
• Financial Management: Monitors expenses against established budget or participates in small scale revenue generation activities. Has an influence over what can and cannot be included in an established budget.
• Interactions/ Types of Contacts: Regularly interacts with team members both within and outside of their department, as well as clients, participants, and partners in carrying out their work assignments.
• Interactions/ Purpose of Contact: Exchanges functional/technical information to aid in management decision making as an integral part of carrying out work assignments. Interactions with others are primarily advisory in nature.
• Focus of Work: Work focuses primarily on accomplishing the business goals and objectives of a department.
• People Management: Accountable for getting work done through others. Planning work, filling jobs, assigning work, scheduling, coaching, and measuring work of others. Raises performance successes and concerns.
• Work Requirements/ Formal Education: Requires a Bachelor’s degree in order to apply a working knowledge of the theories and principles in a specialized field or work discipline.
• Work Requirements/ Work Experience: Requires at least eight years of related work experience.
• Knowledge: Requires an in-depth application of a specialized body of knowledge and is considered an authority or subject matter expert in their field within the organization. At this level of competency, a team member applies in-depth knowledge to enhance and identify new directions of IIE programs, policies, services and systems.

Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Extensive experience managing and analyzing data, including strong understanding of Cloud data integration and management.
• Specific knowledge of PeopleSoft or other ERP platform preferred.
• Good familiarity with querying and reporting tools.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel
• Very strong project management skills and/or substantial exposure to project-based work structures.
• Skilled proficiency in preparation of reports, presentations, summaries and analysis
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Familiarity with OMB, FISMA, FIPS, HIPAA and other federal regulations / requirements associated with Information Security
• Working knowledge of scholarship management and international education data structures a plus.
• Experience with Business Objects 4.0 is preferred.

Work Conditions & Physical Demands:
Essential functions are performed in a general office setting with low noise. Job demands may require long periods of sitting; telephone work and/or computer work, as well as interactions with other team members and external stakeholders. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

IIE is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer of Females/Minorities/Veterans/ Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Expression.

About the Organization

The Institute of International Education (IIE) is the world's most experienced global higher education and professional exchange agency. IIE designs and implements fellowships, training, and technical assistance programs for sponsors, including government agencies, corporations, foundations, universities, and international organizations. As an independent, non-profit organization IIE serves as a resource for educators and learning institutions worldwide through our network of six U.S. regional and fifteen overseas offices. Annually, IIE administers over 250 programs that support cultural and educational linkages to nearly 18,000 men and women from 175 nations around the world. IIE fulfills its mission and achieves the objectives of sponsors through research, development and implementation of the following services in the United States and abroad: -developing and managing effective academic and technical training programs, -arranging internships, professional placements and exchanges, -administering small grants programs, -facilitating technical assistance, -convening international conferences, and -administering English language training. All IIE activities support one or more of our strategic goals: -Promote closer educational and professional relations between the people of the United States and other countries; -Increase the number of students, scholars, and professionals who have the opportunity to study teach and conduct research outside their country of residence; -Strengthen and internationalize institutions of higher learning throughout the world; and -Foster global development through training and technical assistance. Global Development Center IIE's Global Development Center (GDC) administers professional capacity-building programs serving participants from developing countries. The GDC's professional training and exchange programs have allowed participants to gain both industry and public agency based expertise, and acquire leadership, management and technical skills in a variety of fields. The GDC is an extension of IIE's strategic goal to offer the best in professional technical training and capacity development assistance in collaboration with public, private, and non-profit sector clients. The GDC's approach is to establish partnerships that can produce sustainable development results by engaging new and existing international development stakeholders. IIE is able to leverage additional and diverse sources of funding to bring creative development solutions to bear on complicated development challenges. IIE's contract and grant management approach strengthens human and institutional capacity development programs and ultimately delivers a series of premium integrated training services with measurable results for our sponsors. We establish and maintain partnerships with forward-looking governments, educational institutions, corporations, and foundations that work to improve the societies in which they live. Throughout all IIE programs we make a daily investment in the Opening Minds to the World concept: Peace and prosperity in the 21st century depend on increasing the capacity of people to think and work on a global and intercultural basis. As technology opens borders, educational and professional exchange opens minds.