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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. Current WGU employees should submit an internal application before 10/1/2024 to be considered.

The Senior Manager, Business Intelligence and Reporting leads, inspires, and develops a team of data analysts, creating and operating reporting and analytics solutions that enable WGU to deliver extraordinary student outcomes. Establishes and maintains strong relationships with senior leaders and executives across the university, and with peers and partners across Institutional Analytics and Research (IAR), Data Engineering, Product Management, Finance, Marketing, EdTech, and Faculty staff. Cooperates with external partners, directing and overseeing the work of external contributors. As a champion for data visualization and storytelling, combines technical acumen and thought leadership to elevate the quality of decision-making across the university, with emphasis on increasing organizational data literacy, building critical reports and dashboards, and supporting senior and executive leaders in defining and tracking strategic objectives. A crucial player in creating leading and lagging indicators that enable the university to achieve its ambitious Equity, Return, and Completion goals.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities: * Requirement Analysis: Leads and oversees the documentation of data and analytics needs in projects and programs of high complexity with a student and equity-centered lens, collaborating with peers, cross-functional partners, faculty staff, and leaders. Leads the review and triage of user stories, evaluates their business relevance and priority, and translates them into technical requirements that inform the BI team's backlog. Defines requirement analysis best practices and drives their adoption across IAR. * Expectation Management: Sets and manages expectations in cross-functional projects and programs of high complexity, ensuring realistic goal-setting and effective communication about scope, timelines, outcomes, and dependencies. * Stakeholder Management: Proactively develops strong, trust-based relationships with cross-functional partners that lead to the identification, planning, and execution of projects and programs that contribute to positive student outcomes. * Project and Initiative Leadership: Drives tasks, activities, and large-scale, cross-functional projects and programs with high levels of autonomy, confidence, and collaboration with peers and partners. Defines and owns project and program plans and communications, proactively manages dependencies, identifies risks and suitable mitigation strategies, manages resource allocation and capacity, and ensures alignment across the team, leaders, and stakeholders. Breaks down complex goals into concrete tasks and activities. Tracks and reports progress, dependencies, and challenges... 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 origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.