Strategic Intelligence Officer at Durban University of Technology

Minimum Requirements:                                   

• A 4-year relevant qualification in the natural/mathematical sciences
• 5-8 years relevant experience in information management/data science/Data engineering/Computer Science of which 3-4 years ideally within the strategic planning function.
• Data mining and predictive data modelling.
• Advanced excel proficiency.
• Data warehousing and business intelligence platforms.
• Reporting (KPIs, metrics).
• Machine learning techniques.
• Designing Dashboards and Scorecards.
• Data visualization and communication.
• Conceptual thinking.
• Analytic Problem-Solving.

 Summary of Duties:

• Provide high quality data analysis to turn data into information to support the University in its strategic management, planning and decision-making requirements.
• Builds models to gather and analyse data to highlight strategic insights to assist with making key strategic decisions.
• Develop modelling eg forecasting models to discover trends, opportunities and threats based on the available university data to shape strategic intelligence for decision making.
• Draw insights from internal and external data sources/reports and disseminate timely, accurate and relevant reports and dashboards to stakeholders.
• Work with IPME IR, Planning and MEL team to identify opportunities for leveraging institutional data to drive business solutions.
• Monitor institutional performance against strategic goals as presented in the strategic plan and Annual Performance Plan (APP) and Extended Annual Performance Plan (EAPP).
• Provide strategic data support to all relevant committees and data analytics for any ad hoc request.
• Responsible for the running of data integrity tests and reports on sources of data in order to determine any limitations in terms of reliability or usability.
• Capture and organize data to track strategy implementation progress across all levels of DUT.
• Formats and restructures data for reports and designs and presents management information reports (data and narrative; data visualizations; dashboards; presentations, etc) on DUT’s operational and strategic performance for internal and external stakeholders, where such reports maybe investigative, ad-hoc and compliance reports to assist in enhancing learning for decision-making.
• Deliver reports and presentations of findings to the university community and external stakeholders in a way that can be easily understood by diverse background people.