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POSITION SPECIFICS​

The Office for Research Information Systems (ORIS), a unit of the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research (OSVPR), seeks a Business Intelligence Specialist (BI Specialist) to strategically design, develop, and maintain business intelligence solutions. Supported solutions include PowerBI applications and reports, datasets, web applications, and other products focused on process performance and strategic reporting within the research enterprise.

Responsibilities: The Business Intelligence Specialist will:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their data and reporting needs and requirements and translate them into engaging data stories including requirements and intended deliverables.
• Visualize operational and strategic data to identify and answer critical business questions, including operational process performance and KPIs.  
• Extract and transform data from multiple sources to create efficient data models ready for reporting purposes.
• Develop visually appealing and effective data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics, to convey complex data in a clear and understandable manner. 
• Work closely with ORIS developers, database administrators, business analysts, and other teams at Penn State to source data for designing visualizations while ensuring the accuracy of data used.  
• Create interactive dashboards that allow end-users to explore data and gain insights through filtering, drill-down, and other interactive features. 
• Conduct ad hoc statistical analysis and reporting to support data-informed decisions.

Candidates with an understanding of the research lifecycle, research administration, or research compliance, and experience working with operational/financial data are preferred.

The successful candidate will be a champion for data integrity and user experience design and must be able to communicate data analyses and visualizations effectively to executives and non-technical stakeholders.

Applicants should have foundational knowledge of data management processes and techniques and a portfolio of well-designed data visualizations.

This is a technical role and therefore, experience and comfort with data modeling and visualization are critical.  Proficiency with Microsoft Power BI or simi