About EAB

At EAB, our mission is to make education smarter and our communities stronger. We work with more than 2,500 institutions to drive transformative change through data-driven insights and best-in-class capabilities. From kindergarten to college to career, EAB partners with leaders and practitioners to accelerate progress and drive results across five major areas: enrollment, student success, institutional strategy, data & analytics, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). We work with each partner differently, tailoring our portfolio of research, technology, and marketing and enrollment solutions to meet the unique needs of every leadership team, as well as the students and employees they serve.

At EAB, we serve not only our partner institutions but each other-that's why we are always working to make sure our employees love their jobs and are invested in their communities. See how we've been recognized for this dedication to our employees by checking out our recent awards.

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The Role in Brief:

Senior Programmer Analyst, Insight Analytics

EAB Seramount is a strategic business dedicated to advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the workplace.

We serve forward thinking organizations with integrated tools that provide a strategic and holistic map for setting new standards for workplace culture. Over the past four decades we've built deep, data-powered intelligence on the employee experience, which allows us to address specific client workplace challenges related to DEI. We excel in serving as our members' go-to partner in developing and progressing their diversity and inclusion strategies. Our business is in growth mode and offers the right person the opportunity to be part of a diverse, dynamic, creative, and highly skilled team partnering with leading companies to advance more inclusive corporate cultures.

The Senior Programmer Analyst will be a key member of the Insight Analytics team within EAB Seramount, reporting to the Director. We seek a teammate with excellent programming and analytical skills, relationship building skills, professionalism, and an ambition to innovate, develop, and implement processes that improve efficiency and productivity. This role combines extraordinary programming, data processing and reporting skills with the opportunity to do high-impact work for Seramount's Best Companies research initiatives.

The ideal candidate will be a top-notch programmer and analyst, detailed planner, and expert communicator who is committed to the discovery, development, and delivery of innovative solutions that provide automated, customizable analytical reports to our growing customer base.

This hire may be based in Washington, DC or Richmond, VA; this position is also open to remote employment within the continental United States.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop, program, and document processes and systems that automate data cleaning, manipulating, analysis, and reporting procedures to promote increased efficiency and productivity within Seramount's Best Companies research initiatives
• Serve as a thought leader to identify new opportunities to improve and automate the processes of data cleaning, manipulating, analysis, and reporting, with a focus on quality assurance
• Partner with stakeholders across business units to provide data and/or perform basic data analysis as needed, communicating effectively with management and other business units
• Provide general assistance to the Insights Analytics team, as needed
• Design complex and highly visible stakeholder deliverables
• Support the creation of a data warehouse to query data and generate custom datasets across multiple data sources

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, with an excellent academic record
• 3+ years of professional post-degree work experience, including computer programming experience
• Proven quantitative skills, with knowledge of statistics, data structures, and programming to clean, manipulate, analyze, and report data
• Experience generating process documentation and reports
• Ability to perform quality assurance of your own work, and on the work of others (e.g., debugging code, ensuring accuracy of results, reviewing deliverables to confirm the desired level of quality is met)
• Excellent attention to detail, time-management, and organizational skills
• Demonstrated experience executing projects and analyses based on larger datasets
• Proficiency using analytic tools or programs with demonstrated ability to quickly learn new analytical tools or programs
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate and disseminate complex information appropriate for various audiences
• Comfortable working in a variety of team environments while taking ownership and lead on major projects. Ability to work collaboratively with internal customers, one-on-one, in large groups, or individually with minimal supervision.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced, data driven, metrics-oriented environment
• Strategic thinker

Ideal Qualifications:

• A graduate-level degree which emphasizes programming skills (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science/Data Analytics, Mathematics/Statistics or a related technical field)
• Advanced skill with a programming language, preferably Python
• Advanced proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint; experience with VBA highly desirable
• Advanced skill developing dynamic reports using data visualization software, preferably Tableau
• Experience using a statistical software program, such as R
• Experience working with data warehouses, preferably using SQL for querying data
• Experience with project management software, such as Asana
• Commitment to valuing diversity, practicing inclusive behaviors, and contributing to an equitable working and continual learning environment in support of EAB's DE&I Promise

If you've reached this section of the job description and are unsure of whether to apply, please do! At EAB, we welcome diversity of background and experience. We would encourage you to submit an application if this is a role you would be passionate about doing every day.

Compensation:

The anticipated starting salary (base) range for this role is $62,500 to $90,000 per year. Actual salary varies due to factors that may include but not be limited to relevant experience, skills, and location. At EAB, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the starting salary range for their role.

This hire will additionally be eligible for discretionary bonus or incentive compensation. Variable compensation may depend on various factors, such as individual and organizational performance.

Benefits:

At EAB, we believe that to fulfill our mission to "make education smarter and our communities stronger" we need team members who bring a diversity of perspectives to the table and are committed to fostering a workplace where each team member is valued, respected and heard.

To that end, EAB is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we make employment decisions on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. We don't discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.