Data Analyst

Join the BYU-Pathway Institutional Research team to turn institutional data into trusted analytics products and decision-ready guidance in a hybrid role based in Salt Lake City.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, semantic models, and dataflows
• Integrate data from multiple institutional systems to produce reliable trend analyses, with focus on management and reporting for core institutional forecasting operations
• Develop and manage recurring surveys and reporting processes using approved data collection instruments and channels (e.g., Qualtrics)
• Automate reporting workflows and apply AI-assisted tools when they improve efficiency and quality
• Support data lifecycle documentation by helping define business terminology, metadata standards, and data lineage to improve data context and discoverability
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business questions and analytical needs
• Gather, prepare, and analyze institutional data to support applied research and organizational decision-making
• Use statistical and analytical techniques to identify trends, relationships, and opportunities
• Conduct research using quantitative and qualitative methods aligned to project best practices
• Summarize findings for BYU-Pathway stakeholders and executive leadership via reports, dashboards, presentations, and visualizations
• Handle ad hoc data requests and perform deep-dive analyses
• Partner with request and project stakeholders to define requirements, clarify analytical assumptions, and support consistent interpretation of impact and metrics
• Work with the IR team and Pathway leadership to prioritize and manage project lifecycles and outcomes to meet delivery deadlines
• Maintain and update shared standards and practices for reporting, analytics, and related operational workflows
• Ensure reporting designs and data collection align with church, CES, and BYU-Pathway data governance protocols and requirements
• Identify inconsistencies in data or reporting procedures and recommend improvements
• Collaborate with partner organizations on shared reporting and analytics initiatives
• Support adoption of reporting solutions through clear documentation, user guidance, and stakeholder training
• Represent the IR team or BYU-Pathway in Church, CES, or related higher education meetings and presentations

Requirements

• Power BI skills: reports, data models, Dataflows, Power Query, DAX
• SQL proficiency for extracting, validating, and shaping data for analysis and reporting
• Experience with data integration and data quality validation procedures
• Understanding of data lifecycle and reporting architecture
• Strong research design capability: translating stakeholder needs into measurable questions, defining outcomes, selecting methods, and documenting assumptions and limitations
• Statistical analysis and quantitative reasoning (descriptive and inferential)
• Data visualization skills across analytics, design, and storytelling
• Written and verbal communication strength

Technologies

• Power BI
• Power Query
• DAX
• SQL
• Qualtrics
• AI-assisted tools

Work Schedule

• Full-time, benefitted position within commuting distance of BYU-Pathway headquarters in downtown Salt Lake City, UT
• Hybrid-remote: currently requiring 1-3 days per week in the office
• Must physically reside and perform assigned work in Utah
• Occasional travel required

Experience

• Experience in business intelligence, data analytics, reporting, or institutional research
• Experience integrating data from multiple systems and supporting organizational decision-making (preferred)

Education

• Bachelor's degree in statistics, data science, computer science, economics, mathematics, educational assessment, social science research, or another quantitative field
• Master's degree preferred

Preferred Skills

• Survey design, administration, and reporting (particularly in Qualtrics)
• Semantic models and data modeling
• R programming experience
• Experience designing and synthesizing qualitative research (interviews, focus groups, and mixed-methods synthesis)
• Experience in higher education or institutional research
• Experience with learning analytics and assessment

Eligibility Requirement

• Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment