Data Management Specialist for Rankings & Accreditations (m/f/d)

About the job

The Quality Development Service Centre of the University of St.Gallen (HSG) is part of the Quality and Sustainability division within the Vice-Rectorate for Innovation and Quality. Our tasks include conducting accreditations, supporting ranking activities, further developing and implementing evaluations, providing monitoring tools, analyses and reports for programme management and informed decision-making processes, as well as ensuring linguistic consistency. With our services, analyses and information, we support well-founded decisions, make developments and successes visible, and promote the continuous advancement of HSG.

Support ranking activities and ensure data quality

• You prepare ranking data, validate and analyse it, and handle the operational processing of ranking submissions.
• You coordinate data deliveries with internal departments and ensure a timely and high-quality data basis.

Support accreditations based on data

• You prepare key figures, indicators and evidence for national and international accreditations.
• You support accreditation reporting by structuring and maintaining relevant documentation, standards and proofs.

Translate data into decision-making bases

• You develop and maintain meaningful dashboards and reports using Power BI.
• You consolidate data from various sources, prepare it and ensure its quality and consistency.
• You create target group-appropriate analyses and visualisations to support quality development and data-based decision-making processes at HSG.

Required

• University degree (Master's): preferably in social sciences, economics, educational sciences, data science, statistics or a comparable field with a focus on empirical or quantitative methods
• Experience in ranking, accreditation and/or quality assurance processes in the higher education context or solid experience in handling research, higher education or educational data
• Solid BI/data skills: Power BI (data modelling, dashboards), data preparation (SQL, advanced Excel), data quality
• Ability to transform data into target group-appropriate decision-making bases
• Very good German and good English skills

Advantageous

• Advanced BI knowledge (e.g. Power Query, Python or R)
• Experience with higher education or educational data (ranking, survey, publication data)
• Experience in the higher education environment

Personal

• Structured, careful and service-oriented working style
• Strong communication skills and enjoyment of collaboration across departmental boundaries
• Independence, reliability and quality awareness

"A place that creates knowledge" - As one of Europe’s leading business universities, the University of St.Gallen (HSG) is committed to educating over 10,000 students and offers an attractive and innovative environment in research, teaching, continuing education and administration to around 3,800 employees as one of the largest employers in the region."