The posting
Why Work at BYU
At Brigham Young University (BYU), your work is an opportunity to contribute to a distinctive educational mission rooted in the gospel of Jesus Christ and to make a meaningful difference in the lives of students.
As the flagship university of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, BYU strives to be among the exceptional universities in the world. We are devoted to our faith, our students, and the University's Mission: "To assist individuals in their quest for perfection and eternal life."
We seek staff members who enthusiastically embrace and advance this unique mission. Across the university, staff bring their expertise and talents to work that helps students learn, grow, and thrive. A culture of covenant belonging, weekly devotionals, meaningful opportunities for learning and growth, and a beautiful and historic campus make BYU a distinctive and inspiring place to build a career.
Belonging Statement
United by our common primary identity as children of God, BYU values and embraces the variety of individual characteristics, life experiences and circumstances, perspectives, talents, and gifts across the BYU community. This richness strengthens our shared efforts to create and support an environment of covenant belonging centered in Jesus Christ.
Employment Requirements
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are required to hold and be worthy to hold a current temple recommend to be hired and to remain in any position at BYU.
In hiring decisions, Brigham Young University lawfully gives strong preference to qualified, faithful members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. All employees are required to abide by the university's Honor Code and Dress & Grooming Standards. Successful candidates are expected to support and contribute to the academic and religious missions of the university, which are aligned with the principles and doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Equal Opportunity
Brigham Young University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or protected veteran status.
**The last day to submit an application for this position is, October 15, 2026, by 11:59pm MST. **
Senior Data Analyst, School of Medicine
The Senior Data Analyst leads complex analytic projects and communicates actionable insights related to the School of Medicine’s mission, strategic priorities, educational effectiveness, accreditation expectations, student performance, and program outcomes. This position develops analytic methods, descriptive and predictive statistical models, reports, and dashboards, that help leaders monitor outcomes, identify risks and opportunities, and support continuous improvement across the School of Medicine.
This position is critical to the success of the BYU School of Medicine, a newly established organization within the university. As the school continues to launch and grow, a successful candidate must demonstrate adaptability and a willingness to take on evolving responsibilities and assignments to support its effective implementation and ongoing operations. The School of Medicine is looking for someone who is mission-aligned and will support the vision to foster a spiritually enriching environment where employees and students can deepen their testimonies of Jesus Christ while preparing students for a lifetime of service as Christ-centered physicians.
What you’ll do in this position:
Programmatic Analysis
- Analyze evidence related to educational effectiveness, accreditation expectations, strategic priorities, and mission fulfillment.
- Analyze performance indicators, benchmarks, trends, and comparative data that support committee and leadership decision-making.
- Identify strengths, gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Support accreditation monitoring and CQI activities through clear summaries of relevant data, trends, and findings.
- Analyze the effectiveness of actions taken to advance strategic priorities, improve the educational program, mitigate accreditation risks, or strengthen student outcomes, using appropriate comparison, trend, and outcome-analysis methods.
Student Performance Analysis
- Analyze aggregate student performance, assessment, and progression data to support monitoring of student achievement and educational effectiveness.
- Develop and evaluate predictive models, risk indicators, and early-alert analyses that help identify trends, risk factors, emerging patterns, and students or groups at risk of not meeting performance or progression expectations.
- Translate student performance findings into actionable evidence that informs curriculum evaluation, student support, accreditation monitoring, and continuous improvement efforts.
- Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to ensure analyses are accurate, appropriately aggregated, and interpreted in context.
Reporting and Decision Support
- Develop committee-ready visualizations, reports, dashboards, slide presentations, executive summaries, and briefing materials that support leadership and decision-making groups.
- Communicate and present findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Lead and maintain recurring analyses and reporting products that support committees, curricular review, accreditation monitoring, strategic planning, and leadership review.
- Ensure reports include appropriate definitions, context, limitations, and interpretation guidance.
- Translate analytic findings into actionable insights that support informed decision-making and continuous improvement.
- Support stakeholder interpretation of findings by explaining analytic methods, assumptions, limitations, and implications for decision-making.
- Serve as the analytic subject-matter expert for assigned projects, advising stakeholders on methods, model performance, findings, assumptions, limitations, implications, and appropriate uses of evidence.
Methods and Guidance
- Develop analytic methods and descriptive and predictive models that support reliable interpretation of educational data.
- Enable trusted self-service analysis through approved dashboards, reports, data products, and analytic tools that align with approved metric definitions, data structures, and security requirements.
- Use AI-enabled analytics tools appropriately and provide guidance that promotes accurate, explainable, confidential, secure, and responsible use of those tools.
Collaboration and Improvement
- Collaborate with school and institutional stakeholders to support effective use of evidence, analysis, reporting, decision-making, and continuous improvement efforts.
- Apply approved standards for confidentiality, role-based access, de-identification, data use, and reporting.
- Support documentation of data-to-decision and decision-to-action workflows.
- Contribute to ongoing improvement of analytic methods, reporting processes, dashboard adoption, data quality, and stakeholder data literacy.
- Demonstrate continuous learning, adaptability, and curiosity by evaluating emerging technologies, analytics methods, and AI capabilities and identifying opportunities to strengthen analytics services and decision support.
- Champion a culture of continuous learning and improvement by supporting initiatives that optimize service delivery, strengthen data-driven decision making, and improve reporting processes.
What qualifies you for this role:
Required:
- A firm commitment to the mission of BYU.
- Bachelor’s degree in statistics, data analytics, institutional research, education, psychology, public health, computer science, or related field; or equivalent education and experience.
- 5 years of analyst experience.
- Experience analyzing data and preparing reports, briefs, dashboards, visualizations, or summaries for decision-making.
- Experience using quantitative methods to identify trends, patterns, comparisons, benchmarks, or performance indicators.
- Experience communicating data findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience working with sensitive or confidential data and applying appropriate standards for access, use, reporting, and confidentiality.
- Experience developing and validating predictive models, classification models, forecasting models
- Advanced data analysis, data interpretation, and data visualization skills.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Power BI or comparable reporting/analytics tools.
- Ability to develop analytic methods, statistical models, visualizations, reports, and summaries.
- Ability to develop, evaluate, and interpret predictive models and risk indicators and communicate model findings, assumptions, limitations, and appropriate uses to decisionmakers.
- Ability to interpret complex data and present and explain findings, implications, limitations, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to work collaboratively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to apply approved data definitions, reporting standards, confidentiality expectations, and appropriate-use guidance.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Sound judgment and discretion when working with student, faculty, assessment, evaluation, accreditation, and institutional data.
- Demonstrated ability to independently learn, evaluate, and apply emerging technologies, analytics methods, AI capabilities, and data platforms in a rapidly changing environment.
- Demonstrated curiosity, creativity, adaptability, and commitment to continuous professional growth and innovation.
- Familiarity with AI-enabled analytics tools and responsible-use practices for accurate, explainable, confidential, and secure analysis.
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Preferred:
- Master’s degree in statistics, data analytics, institutional research, educational research, public health, psychology, data science, health professions education, or related field.
- Experience in higher education, medical education, health professions education, institutional research, program evaluation, educational assessment, student success analytics, or curriculum analytics.
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Excel, SQL, R, Python, SPSS, SAS, or comparable analytic/reporting tools.
- Experience analyzing and presenting student performance data, assessment data, survey data, course/clerkship outcomes, program outcomes, strategic indicators, or accreditation-related evidence.
- Experience with AI-enabled tools for analysis, visualization, summarization, or documentation.
- Experience developing early-alert systems, or other analytics used to identify educational performance, progression, retention, or outcome risks.
- Advanced skills in Power BI, DAX, Power Query, SQL, R, Python, statistical modeling, or comparable tools.
- Knowledge of educational outcomes, assessment data, student progression data, course/clerkship performance data, survey data, curriculum data, CQI reporting, or accreditation monitoring.
- Ability to support stakeholders in trusted self-service analysis through user-friendly reports, dashboards, documentation, and interpretation guidance.
- Advanced skills in predictive analytics, statistical modeling, machine learning techniques appropriate for structured educational data, and validation of analytic models using R, Python, or comparable tools.
- Relevant training or certification in data analytics, statistics, institutional research, business intelligence, Power BI, data visualization, or related areas.
What we offer in return:
In addition to our competitive pay structure, this position comes with fantastic benefits, including:
- 401k. BYU automatically contributes 8% at no cost to you. Additionally, if you contribute 5%, BYU adds an additional 4% (Rehires may qualify for different retirement plans)
- Excellent work-life balance: 13 paid holidays + 22 days paid vacation + 12 sick days, accrued annually
- Employee assistance program, available to the employee and all members of their household
- Tuition benefits for employees and eligible family members· Access to athletic facilities
- Excellent medical/dental benefits
- Short/long-term disability benefits
- Paid parental and maternity leave
- Wellness Program
- Free on-campus parking
- Free UTA passes for employees, spouses, and qualified dependents
- Discounts at the BYU Store and for many events at BYU
Pay Grade: 53
Typical Starting Pay: $75,000 - $97,000
The actual compensation offered will take into consideration internal equity and may vary based on the candidate’s job-related experience, knowledge, skills, and other relevant factors. Candidates with very significant work-related experience may receive an offer higher than the posted typical range.
*Cover letter required
