Southern Methodist University · 10 hours ago
Director of Reporting and Analytics (HR title: Dir, Data Analytics)
Dallas, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
7+ years expSouthern Methodist University (SMU) is a dynamic educational institution recognized for its commitment to academic freedom and innovative programs. The Director of Reporting and Analytics will lead the strategic vision and execution of reporting and analytics functions, managing a team to ensure data integrity and empower data-driven decision-making across the Development and External Affairs division.
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Responsibilities
Leads, mentors, and develops the team of three analytics professionals. This involves setting clear performance expectations, prioritizing and assigning workloads, and fostering a collaborative environment. This leader's guidance is key to guiding the team through the CRM conversion and empowering them to become experts in the new toolset
Owns the technical vision and strategic roadmap for the reporting team. This includes evaluating and guiding the use of the entire reporting suite (Salesforce, CRMA, Tableau, and Apsona) to ensure SMU is maximizing its investment. Creates and enforces standards, processes, and structured governance for query tools like Workbench to ensure consistency and accuracy
Serves as the primary analytics partner and consultant for key stakeholders for Development and External Affairs (DEA) and campus partners. Proactively meets with partners to understand their business goals, translating those goals into technical specifications, and managing the intake process for all new data, report and dashboard requests
Leads the creation of SMU's essential reports during and following the Salesforce conversion. Manages the entire development lifecycle from scoping and design to build, testing, and deployment ensuring that new data requests and reports are accurate, efficient, and provide enhanced insights. Ensures colleagues understand business decisions and logic behind reporting models
Oversees the team's operational output, ensuring the timely and accurate fulfillment of ad-hoc data requests, such as mailing lists and metrics. A critical component of this function is designing, implementing, and enforcing a robust quality assurance (QA) process for all data outputs to guarantee data integrity and build stakeholder trust
Partners closely with the Advancement Applications and Technology Services team to inform and advise on the advancement data architecture, especially within Salesforce. This includes providing an analytics perspective on data flows, object relationships, and the impact of integrations with other third-party solutions to ensure data is structured for optimal reporting and analysis. Other duties as assigned
Occasional travel for professional conferences, speaking engagements, and/or site visits is required
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree is required
A minimum of seven years of work experience is required
Experience managing multiple direct reports in a fast-paced, deadline oriented environment is also required
Candidate must demonstrate strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate broadly across the University and develop and maintain effective relationships with a wide range of constituencies
Candidate must also demonstrate strong written communication skills
Candidate must possess strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and analyze problems, as well as devise solutions
Candidate must also have strong organizational, planning, and time management skills
Candidate must have strong public speaking and presentation skills necessary to drive adoption of data-driven practices and deliver actionable insights from analytics projects
Candidate must demonstrate knowledge of data governance standards and relevant regulation, particularly in regard to personally identifiable information (PII)
Candidate must have substantial experience in the management of large scale non-profit CRM software, data analysis tools, and automated business intelligence tools
Preferred
A Master's degree is preferred
Process improvement and project management certifications are preferred
Experience in nonprofit development is desired
Higher education development experience is strongly preferred
Benefits
SMU offers staff a broad, competitive array of health and related benefits.
In addition to traditional benefits such as health, dental, and vision plans, SMU offers a wide range of wellness programs to help attract, support, and retain our employees whose work continues to make SMU an outstanding education and research institution.
SMU is committed to providing an array of retirement programs that benefit and protect you and your family throughout your working years at SMU and, if you meet SMU's retirement eligibility criteria, during your retirement years after you leave SMU.
Employees have access to a wide variety of professional and personal development opportunities, including tuition benefits.
Company
Southern Methodist University
SMU is a distinguished center for teaching and research located near the heart of Dallas.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$101.8MKey Investors
Phillips FoundationTexas Workforce CommisionMoody Foundation
2023-06-14Grant· $1.7M
2022-07-07Grant· $0.1M
2019-11-12Grant· $100M
Leadership Team
Lisa Nelson
Adjunct Professor
Michael Hites
Chief Information Officer
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