Data Scientist I - Curriculum Analytics

WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY • Salt Lake City, UT • 2w ago

If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Grade: Technical 406

Pay Range: $95,900.00 - $143,800.00

Job Description

The Institutional Analytics and Research (IAR) team supports and enables most university teams, departments, and colleges to make data-informed decisions that lead to better student outcomes. Our analysts, scientists, researchers, and managers are distributed across several teams: Faculty Analytics, Institutional Research, Curriculum Analytics, Outreach Analytics, and Student Success Analytics.

Curriculum Analytics uses WGU's rich data assets to create course-level insights and student recommendations. We design and monitor course performance metrics, support the development of effective courses and programs, and create personalized guidance. Our work reflects a strong sense of purpose and a drive to innovate to help every student succeed.

The Data Scientist transforms large volumes of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data into actionable insights that support decision-making and student success. They collaborate closely with teams across IAR, Program Development, Data Engineering, Decision Intelligence, Product Management, EdTech, and Faculty to understand needs, share findings, and build impactful solutions. Their toolkit includes statistical analysis, machine learning, text mining, and natural language processing, which they apply to create personalized guidance, explore patterns, and develop predictive models that can be integrated into products and workflows.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Documents data and analytics needs in projects of medium/high complexity with a student and equity-centered lens, collaborating with peers, cross-functional partners, faculty staff, and leaders. Translates user stories into technical requirements.

Sets and manages expectations about analytics tasks and activities through clear, timely, and effective communication with partners and stakeholders.

Identifies adequate data sources and data sets to evaluate hypotheses and produce forecasts.

Analyzes large data sets from both structured and unstructured sources and develops statistical and predictive models.

Collaborates with Data Engineering in the development of ETL/ELT processes and data pipelines.

Identifies, investigates, and solves complex data... For full info follow application link.

Western Governors Univeristy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origi n, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.

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