The purpose of the Department of Information & Strategic Analysis (DISA) is to support strategic and operational management, decision-making and planning across the institution and to fulfil the University’s statutory obligations and stakeholder information requirements by providing high-quality, relevant easily accessible and up-to-date information and analysis.
Requirements:
- An appropriate postgraduate qualification or NQF equivalent in a quantitative discipline such as Decision Sciences, Statistics, Mathematics or Information Systems and a minimum of five years’ experience in information and analysis and management in a medium to large organisation, preferably at a higher education institution and/or experience in providing planning and statistical information including query and reporting, analysis and graphical tools in a relational database and multi-dimensional database environment using client/server and intranet technologies.
OR
An appropriate Bachelor's degree or NQF equivalent in a quantitative discipline such as Decision Sciences, Statistics, Mathematics or Information Systems and a minimum of seven years’ experience in the above areas.
- Knowledge of the following:
- Windows and MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook)
- Business Intelligence tools
- Data warehouse/Data marts
- Intranet.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate clearly in written and oral English.
- Excellent analytical skills and insight into a complex systems environment.
- Strong leadership, management and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to take initiative, execute sound judgement and solve problems.
- Ability to work accurately, independently and in a team, under pressure and to meet deadlines.
- Willingness to work beyond the normal call of duty.
Recommendations:
- Knowledge of university structures and databases, and in particular elements of a student database.
- Knowledge of the following:
- Cognos Impromptu/Powerplay
- Oracle and/or Microsoft database
- Higher Education Data Analyzer (HEDA).
Duties:
- Contribute to the effective execution of the Departmental Strategic and Operational Plans by:
o Managing and coordinating the institutional information service.
o Supervising Senior Information Analysts and Information Analysts.
o Extracting, organising and, where required, analysing information.
o Monitoring and reporting on usage of the information service.
o Performing data validation and checks.
o Providing specialised information analyst support.
- Exercise leadership, management and teamwork in areas of responsibility.
- Practice appropriate professional citizenship.
- Contribute towards Departmental organisational development.
- Contribute towards Departmental change, transformation and diversity management.
The purpose of the Department of Information & Strategic Analysis (DISA) is to support strategic and operational management, decision-making and planning across the institution and to fulfil the University’s statutory obligations and stakeholder information requirements by providing high-quality, relevant easily accessible and up-to-date information and analysis.
Requirements:
- An appropriate postgraduate qualification or NQF equivalent in a quantitative discipline such as Decision Sciences, Statistics, Mathematics or Information Systems and a minimum of five years’ experience in information and analysis and management in a medium to large organisation, preferably at a higher education institution and/or experience in providing planning and statistical information including query and reporting, analysis and graphical tools in a relational database and multi-dimensional database environment using client/server and intranet technologies.
OR
An appropriate Bachelor's degree or NQF equivalent in a quantitative discipline such as Decision Sciences, Statistics, Mathematics or Information Systems and a minimum of seven years’ experience in the above areas.
- Knowledge of the following:
- Windows and MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook)
- Business Intelligence tools
- Data warehouse/Data marts
- Intranet.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate clearly in written and oral English.
- Excellent analytical skills and insight into a complex systems environment.
- Strong leadership, management and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to take initiative, execute sound judgement and solve problems.
- Ability to work accurately, independently and in a team, under pressure and to meet deadlines.
- Willingness to work beyond the normal call of duty.
Recommendations:
- Knowledge of university structures and databases, and in particular elements of a student database.
- Knowledge of the following:
- Cognos Impromptu/Powerplay
- Oracle and/or Microsoft database
- Higher Education Data Analyzer (HEDA).
Duties:
- Contribute to the effective execution of the Departmental Strategic and Operational Plans by:
o Managing and coordinating the institutional information service.
o Supervising Senior Information Analysts and Information Analysts.
o Extracting, organising and, where required, analysing information.
o Monitoring and reporting on usage of the information service.
o Performing data validation and checks.
o Providing specialised information analyst support.
- Exercise leadership, management and teamwork in areas of responsibility.
- Practice appropriate professional citizenship.
- Contribute towards Departmental organisational development.
- Contribute towards Departmental change, transformation and diversity management.
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