Department
ARD Data Management
About the Department
Alumni Relations and Development (ARD) engages alumni (~220k), current students, parents and friends of the University through intellectual, professional and social activities on campus, around the world and online. ARD raises $600 Million annually to support faculty and researchers, practitioners and patients, and students and programs across the University. Our work supports priorities in every division, school, department, and institute.
The Analytics and Technology Solutions (ATS) team provides technology and system solutions to enable ARD to meet aggressive fundraising goals and measure, analyze and predict growth in constituency giving and participation. Using an enterprise approach to data and systems, ATS creates a data and user environment that is consistent yet agile. Collaborating with stakeholders to understand program strategies, ATS develops data, reporting, and analytics solutions that lead to actionable outcomes and actualized goals.
Job Summary
This role performs a range of database administration activities for the University. Administers database utilities, interprets the relationships between the database users and applications, and maintains the University’s databases across multiple platforms and computing environments. Provides instructional support to end users.

Responsibilities

• Leads the development of queries and creates retrieval systems to monitor and improve data quality and integrity.
• Designs and executes plans to assess and maintain data quality and implements improvements as identified.
• Creates, monitors and responds to data audit reports to identify and remedy data integrity and system issues. Communicates with other ARD teams to identify process improvements and growth opportunities to increase data quality and integrity through user actions.
• Collaborate with managers and partner teams to manage projects from start to finish.
• Seeks opportunities for professional development that will enhance job performance, including building networks within the University and with colleagues at peer institutions and with an eye towards broadly diversifying the advancement profession.
• Plans and executes requirements analysis, translating requirements into a scope document and developing reporting deliverables based on the design.
• Remains current on industry best practices on data quality and data integrity; keeps abreast of vendors and tools in the space.
• Synthesize and prepare reports and presentations for a variety of management purposes to inform decisions and strategy.
• With moderate direction from others, analyzes the users’ requirements and solves routine database problems that ensures users and related applications can access necessary data sets.
• Defines and interprets existing data and populates the database with new data from external sources. Plans own resources such as documentation on data models, data dictionaries, physical database configuration, and daily database maintenance functions.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications
Education:
Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
Work Experience:
Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 2-5 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
Certifications:
-
Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Major in statistics, business, computer science or related field.

Experience:

• Knowledge and skills developed through 2-5 years of work experience in data analysis, records management, or similar field.

Technical Skills or Knowledge:

• Demonstrated skill and knowledge of, or ability to learn quickly, the internal workings of the University as well as the technology tools available to the Office of ARD, including the University’s donor relationship management system.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, especially working with data and Microsoft Excel.
• Produce highly readable, informative reports.
• Broad experience working with Salesforce CRM.
• Proficient with Tableau Desktop and SAP Business Objects.

Preferred Competencies

• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. Articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Work across various teams and projects simultaneously, advancing unified strategy.
• Strong project management skills, with an aptitude for leading end-to-end project delivery.
• Knowledge and understanding of higher education advancement industry.
• Outstanding interpersonal and communications skills characterized by the ability to listen, speak, and write effectively.
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.
• Manage confidential information with discretion and tact.
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.
• Work collegially and collaboratively in a team setting.
• Self-motivated, take initiative, and think strategically.
• Prioritize multiple projects and independently follow through with detail.
• Comfortable with ambiguity.

Working Conditions

• This position has a hybrid work schedule which includes weekly in-office presence.
• Standard office environment.
• Travel to campus and/or non-campus locations for University business.
• Work evenings and weekends as needed.
• This position is located in Hyde Park at 5235 South Harper Court.

Application Documents

• Resume/CV (required)
• Cover Letter, addressed to Hiring Committee (preferred)

When applying, the document(s) MUST be uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.
Job Family
Information Technology
Role Impact
Individual Contributor
Scheduled Weekly Hours
37.5
Drug Test Required
No
Health Screen Required
No
Motor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required
No
Pay Rate Type
Salary
FLSA Status
Exempt
Pay Range
$72,250.00 - $85,000.00
The included pay rate or range represents the University’s good faith estimate of the possible compensation offer for this role at the time of posting.
Benefits Eligible
Yes
The University of Chicago offers a wide range of benefits programs and resources for eligible employees, including health, retirement, and paid time off. Information about the benefit offerings can be found in the

Benefits Guidebook
.
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• Leads the development of queries and creates retrieval systems to monitor and improve data quality and integrity.
• Designs and executes plans to assess and maintain data quality and implements improvements as identified.
• Creates, monitors and responds to data audit reports to identify and remedy data integrity and system issues. Communicates with other ARD teams to identify process improvements and growth opportunities to increase data quality and integrity through user actions.
• Collaborate with managers and partner teams to manage projects from start to finish.
• Seeks opportunities for professional development that will enhance job performance, including building networks within the University and with colleagues at peer institutions and with an eye towards broadly diversifying the advancement profession.
• Plans and executes requirements analysis, translating requirements into a scope document and developing reporting deliverables based on the design.
• Remains current on industry best practices on data quality and data integrity; keeps abreast of vendors and tools in the space.
• Synthesize and prepare reports and presentations for a variety of management purposes to inform decisions and strategy.
• With moderate direction from others, analyzes the users’ requirements and solves routine database problems that ensures users and related applications can access necessary data sets.
• Defines and interprets existing data and populates the database with new data from external sources. Plans own resources such as documentation on data models, data dictionaries, physical database configuration, and daily database maintenance functions.
• Performs other related work as needed