Reporting to the Director of Experiential Learning and Workforce Engagement within the Sullivan Career and Life Planning Center (SCLP), the Workforce and Outcome Analyst helps develop and execute a research agenda for workforce analysis to promote students' persistence on their career-academic journey, career preparedness, and social capital development. The Analyst gathers and analyzes data from a variety of sources and shares and helps make sense of findings with a broad set of internal and external constituencies to drive continuous improvement to academic programming, non-credit learning, and career development experiences and services. The incumbent researches emerging industry trends, barriers to workforce participation, and learners' career outcomes.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Executes a research agenda aimed at analyzing the regional workforce, with an emphasis on identifying emerging industries and in-demand jobs and skills and barriers to workforce participation.
• Gathers data streams relating to the regional economy, industry, labor market, workforce participation and demographics.
• Conducts quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research and analysis designs.
• Conducts background research to inform project design.
• Produces research briefs, visualizations, and other insights to inform internal and external constituencies in developing career and workforce development programs and services, marketing campaigns, credit and non-credit learning products, employer partnerships, and alumni engagement.
• Collaborates with the Office of Partnership Development to match workforce insights to development of non-credit learning opportunities and with academics to inform program design and redesign efforts.
• Develops relationships with external organizations - regional workforce boards, Springfield WORKS, e.g. - who have a mission to study and impact the regional labor market.
• Recommends and executes strategies to secure and share alumni career outcomes data in coordination with Alumni Relations staff.
• Executes analysis of the alignment of learners' academic programs of study and their career outcomes.
• Produces longitudinal analyses of learners' career journeys.

• Bachelor's degree or industry certification in economics, data analysis, data science statistics, mathematics, psychometrics, public policy, or a related field that incorporates research design preferred.
• Skills in quantitative and qualitative research design, data analysis, and softwares.
• Skills in identifying trends within data.
• Skills in gathering, storing, and relating large volumes of data from a variety of sources, including federal, state, local, and proprietary databases and websites.
• Skills in developing survey instruments and other data collection tools.
• Skills in turning data into stories, visualizations, reports, and other forms of insights.
• Knowledge of, and skills in accessing and using, skills taxonomies and credential registries.
• Knowledge of Standard Occupational Classification (SOC), Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP), and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and skills in relating these classification systems.
• Knowledge of, and skills in, infusing diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice concepts in everyday practice.
• Abilities and skills in self-organization, proactive initiative, attention to detail, interpersonal relationships.
• Skills in productivity software and technical writing.
• Ability to handle confidential information with integrity and discretion and in alignment with FERPA regulations.
• Ability to effectively prioritize multiple responsibilities and adhere to deadlines.
• Ability to engage in innovation and to adjust to and effectively manage change.
• Ability and skills to work independently and collaboratively to creatively solve problems.
• Should be committed to a culture of diversity, equity, respect and inclusion; demonstrated ability to build working relationships with people having a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences different from ones' own.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Bay Path University is a diverse community devoted to proactively nurturing a campus-wide culture that promotes and ensures equity, respect, inclusion and safety for all members regardless of race, color, national origin, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity, socio-economic background, or physical ability. We are one University that opens our hearts and minds to conversations, to learning and to creating a community that is welcoming of all. Regardless of position, it is expected that each employee will embrace this commitment and demonstrate an attitude of respect toward and acceptance of all members of our community.