Senior Business Analysis and Intelligence Coordinator

Bennington College welcomes applications for a Senior Business Analysis and Intelligence Coordinator to join a dynamic, impactful Information Technology team. We are a small, dynamic team that works hard, has fun, and prides itself on providing exceptional, innovative technology solutions to power the intellectual and artistic community that is Bennington College.

The Senior Business Analysis and Intelligence Coordinator is responsible for the analysis and development of enterprise campus systems supporting a wide range of business functions including admissions, enrollment management, human resources, accounting, financial aid, library, inventory management, student information systems, registration, alumni relations and others.  Working with business process owners and administrators, the Senior Coordinator will help to mine and make meaning of data sources to drive evidence-based decision-making. The Coordinator is also responsible for optimizing enterprise systems to streamline workflows, increase efficiency, reduce redundancy, and increase productivity. The Senior Business Analysis and Intelligence Coordinator must coordinate with other members of the IT@Bennington team to provide outstanding service to students, faculty, and staff and facilitate the identification and adoption of a technology service model that will enhance Bennington College’s technology resource effectiveness.

Bennington serves a diverse student population inclusive of members of ethnically/racially minoritized, international, LGBTQIA+, and disability communities as well as diverse gender identities, socioeconomic backgrounds, religions, and political beliefs. Our staff and faculty also reflect diverse and intersecting backgrounds and identities. All employees are expected to be respectful and responsive to these differences in the service of building community that promotes student and employee success and community cohesiveness. Each individual (faculty, staff and students) will be accountable for upholding these values. The College’s approach to pluralism and inclusivity—both as fields of inquiry and practice—is to prioritize flexible thought, and to invite the examination of access, value, power, and privilege through its institutional policies and areas of study. We encourage applicants from diverse realms of interest, backgrounds, experience, and accomplishment to apply. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, data science, data analytics, data visualization, or other related field, or five to ten years of related professional experience, such as but not necessarily limited to data warehousing, data architecture, data storytelling/visualization, database engineering and programming; masters in related field strongly preferred.

• Basic facility with concepts and uses of data warehousing and data mart creation.

• Demonstrated ability to build dynamic and static data visualizations in PowerBI or equivalent.

• Demonstrated ability to understand complex business-related software and to utilize it effectively.

• Programming background is highly desired but not required.

• Experience with SQL or equivalent query languages.

• Project management expertise.

• Preferred at least five to ten years of experience working in business intelligence, data integration, and technology-driven business process improvement.

• Effective communications skills.

• Ability to collaborate in partnership with non-technical business leaders at all levels of the College’s faculty, staff, and administration to identify and manage process improvement.

• Ability to effectively bridge user requirements from business units with technological affordances.

• Consistent exercise of discretion, independent judgment, and initiative, as well as, the interpersonal skills necessary to develop and maintain effective working relationships with individuals at all levels of the institution.

• Maintain discretion and confidentiality of highly sensitive data.

• Work with senior leaders and be able to manage complex relationships.

• Must be able to lift 50 lbs. The work involves standing, bending, reaching, stooping, walking, pushing, pulling and climbing stairs. Lifting and placement of technology equipment and cabling below desks and in other confined spaces may also be required.

• The position requires successful completion and acceptable results of a background check.

The College

Bennington College is a laboratory for innovation in higher education. At Bennington, learning and making—on campus and in the field—are inseparable, and its graduates are noted for their outsized impact on the world’s stage. This campus celebrates the ongoing making of work—shared on walls, in shows and performances, in lectures and readings, and in conversations—and believes that equity, diversity, and inclusivity are vital to a collaborative community. This position captures, contributes to, and reflects the ethos of this creative community.

Nestled at the foot of the Green Mountains in Vermont, the campus consists of approximately 370 acres. The College was named one of ten with the best architecture by Architectural Digest.  From campus, it is a short drive to the cultural offerings of the northern Berkshires in Massachusetts, Albany, New York, and many of Vermont’s top recreational centers. New York City, Boston, and Burlington, Vermont are all within three and a half hours by car. 

Bennington College offers a comprehensive benefits program that includes medical, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance, retirement, and tuition benefits including Tuition Exchange scholarships. The College also offers an on-site fitness center as well as generous time off benefits.