Über diese Higher Education Senior Analytics Consultant Stelle bei Attain Partners
Attain Partners is an innovative consulting firm dedicated to disrupting the status quo to change the world and improve the lives of those we touch. From strategy to technology and everywhere in between, our experts use their unique skills to advance the important missions of education, nonprofit, healthcare, and state and local government clients.
People are at the center of all we do, and that’s why we empower career growth, provide industry-leading benefits packages, encourage a flexible work environment, and foster a culture of inclusion to support the needs of our team. We share a collective passion for our mission and our people. Guided by our seven core values, The Attain Way, our vision is the foundation of our culture—to be and attain the best.
The Higher Education Analytics Senior Consultant will design and deliver reporting, dashboard, and analytics solutions for higher education institutions, with a primary focus on Advancement, fundraising, alumni engagement, and constituent data. This role will work directly with institutional stakeholders to gather reporting requirements, define key performance indicators, analyze data, and translate business needs into actionable dashboards and visualizations. The Senior Consultant will serve as both a client-facing advisor and hands-on analytics practitioner, primarily using Tableau and Tableau Next. The role will also collaborate with data engineering, integration, CRM, and functional teams to validate data sources, establish reporting logic, support testing, and improve the usability and adoption of analytics solutions.
Required Skills
- Hands-on experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying Tableau dashboards and reports.
- Knowledge of or experience with Tableau Next.
- Experience with Salesforce, with knowledge of Salesforce Education Cloud for Advancement or other Salesforce-based Advancement solutions & Salesforce CRM Analytics preferred.
- Experience working with Higher Education Advancement, fundraising, alumni relations, or constituent data.
- Ability to translate business requirements into dashboards, metrics, data visualizations, and reporting solutions.
- Strong understanding of data visualization principles and dashboard design best practices.
- Experience facilitating requirements and design sessions with business and technical stakeholders.
- Strong SQL, data analysis, and data-validation skills.
- Ability to document reporting requirements, business rules, data definitions, and test results.
- Strong client-facing communication, presentation, and workshop-facilitation skills.
- Ability to manage multiple deliverables within a consulting or project-based environment.
Desired Skills
- Experience with Power BI.
- Experience with Advancement platforms such as Ellucian Advance, Blackbaud CRM, Raiser’s Edge, Slate, or similar systems.
- Familiarity with Salesforce Data Cloud capabilities.
- Experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, or Azure.
- Knowledge of Advancement concepts, including gifts, pledges, campaigns, funds, designations, prospects, portfolios, moves management, alumni engagement, and constituent households.
- Experience building executive dashboards, fundraiser performance dashboards, campaign reporting, pipeline analytics, and constituent engagement reporting.
- Experience supporting reporting assessments, dashboard rationalization, data governance, or analytics modernization initiatives.
- Consulting experience within Higher Education, nonprofit, or public-sector organizations.
Years of Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, reporting, data visualization, or a related field.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience working with Higher Education Advancement, fundraising, alumni, or constituent data.
- Prior consulting or client-facing delivery experience is strongly preferred.
Certifications
Tableau certifications, such as: Tableau Certified Data Analyst, Tableau Desktop Specialist, Comparable current Tableau certification
Additional Requirements:
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted advisor relationships with clients
- Experience supporting sales and business development
- Position requires flexibility to travel periodically based on business and client needs
Additional Information
Attain Partners values your mental, emotional, and physical health and wellbeing. Our comprehensive benefits package starts on your first day of employment and includes benefits such as:
- Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage, HSA and FSA accounts, life and disability insurance, fertility and family planning benefits, and employee assistance and discount programs
- 11 paid federal holidays and flexible unlimited time off (UTO)
- Generous 401(k) matching with immediate vesting
- Flexible career paths – our career tracks provide advancement, mobility, and flexibility as you continue to grow with us
- A healthy environment where we value unique experiences, and care about everything that makes you, you.
Attain Partners is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The individual base salary for this position is unique to each candidate and will be commensurate with experience, education, and skills. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.
Interested in this position but the compensation isn’t quite right? Let us know your expectations, and we’ll see if we can make it happen based on your qualifications.
Attain Partners is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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