Academic Partnerships assists primarily regional universities in increasing their access and impact by making their academic programs available to students online. Founded in 2007, AP's mission is to expand access to high-quality, affordable, and workforce-relevant education, especially for working and adult students. AP brings single-minded dedication to student success, an integrated set of services, and data-driven performance to our collaboration with university partners.

Our team advances the organization's mission by:

• Partnering with our university clients to identify student experience and university value proposition improvements through a mix of advanced analytics, benchmarking, and thought partnership.
• Partnering with operational leaders to implement analytics & data science innovations that improve student experiences and operational efficiencies.
• Establishing our advanced analytics capabilities as the benchmark for the industry.

A Day in the Life:

The essential functions of this role are as follows:

• Understand the perspective and processes of our university clients, serving as an advocate for the client perspective in problem solving.
• Investigate and understand challenges and opportunities within our operations, raising performance aspirations among operations leaders.
• Design solutions that raise student experience, client experience, productivity, and the distinctiveness of our offering.
• Partner with Business Analysts within our team and operational leaders across the organization to operationalize the advanced analytics tools you build.
• Own the delivery of data- and analytics-enabled operational improvements in collaboration with operational leaders and analytics experts.
• Establish counseling relationships with colleagues across the business from the frontline through executive leadership.
• Develop our team through mentorship and apprenticeship of your immediate teammates, and BizOps professionals outside of our team.

You will be supported by our Data Analytics team - a mix of career analytics professionals, experienced operators with great analytics chops, and previous consultants - and by the greater Strategy function.

What You'll Need for Success:

You must meet the following requirements to be considered for employment:

• A proven track record of delivering operational improvements, especially leveraging data and/or analytics to accelerate or expand impact
• Experience as a workstream leader, scoping, designing, and managing the implementation of end solutions
• Comfort working with data analytics tools (e.g., Excel, Tableau, SQL), or an excitement to develop technical data analytics capabilities
• Great collaboration and communication abilities, especially when working with both operations and technical personas
• Familiarity with the education industry gives you a great springboard, but is not necessary

Academic Partnerships is an equal opportunity employer and committed to hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Academic Partnerships is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Academic Partnerships offers the following comprehensive benefits:

• PTO - accumulated from day one
• 11 designated holidays
• Medical - four options (including PPO and HDP)
• Dental
• Vision
• Life & Disability (company paid)
• Flexible Spending Account & Health Savings Account (company contribution to HSA)
• Retirement plan with company match
• Maternity / Paternity / Parental Leave (company paid)
• Volunteer Time Off

Supplemental Benefits:

• Wellness program
• Alternative medicine options
• Pet discounts
• Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity

Personal and Professional Development:

• Continuous Professional and Leadership Development Programs
• Tuition Reimbursement for employees and their dependents