Data Analytics Officer - Mamelodi Campus at University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The successful candidate’s responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Systematic collection and preparation of data:
• Collate data from all offerings and activities of the FPs using clickUP, HEDA and Power BI (any dashboard used by the university) by supporting staff at the early stages of their data collection planning process;
• Clean and prepare all collected data for reporting purposes;
• Generate necessary secondary data emanating from all offering and activities around FPs;
• Strengthen the Data Analytics Capability of the Foundation Programmes (FP’s):
• Implement new system requirements, and update current functionalities when needed;
• Ensure analysis reports/results are ready and available for the FPs reporting cycles;
• Support the Head of Academic Programmes in advancing the data analytics capabilities/management within the FPs;
• Assist the Head of Academic Programmes in supporting the campus online learning agenda through providing clickUP and dashboards-related training where needed;
• Research and support activities:
• Assist the FPs management team in writing appropriate contributions to research and management work in line with research unit outputs;
• Support research by providing data collection and analysis services to ensure the success of FPs students;
• Turnaround strategy:
• Perform analysis and background studies on the performance of the students in the FPs;
• Generate and provide reports on the FPs in line with the proposals when needed;
• Customising BI dashboard for managing and evaluating the Turnaround Strategy;
• Identify gaps in the data collected to support the proposals;
• Assist with the implementation activities as identified in the turnaround strategies. 

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• A Bachelor of Science Mathematical Statistics; or a Bachelor of Information Technology/Science; or a Bachelor of Commerce in Informatics (Information Systems); WITH
• Two years’ experience in:
• Working with data and business intelligence tools;
• An academic environment and development of E-learning material; 
• The development of online tools.