Overview
The Tufts Career Center, situated in Academic Affairs, uses a Career Design approach to providee comprehensive career development assistance for undergraduates, graduate students and alumni from the School of Arts & Sciences, the School of Engineering, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. We provide career and graduate school advising, online career resources and career education workshops, networking events and presentations with alumni and employers, as well as career and internship fairs, job and internship search assistance including online listings, and funding for professional development. We strive to foster transformational experiences which shape the professional, academic, and personal development of Tufts students and alumni. Our vision is that every Jumbo is prepared for a lifetime of fulfilling career opportunities.
What You'll Do
Performs analytical and reporting responsibilities for unit, cross-functional, or institutional data. Revises, analyzes and maintains data reports and conducts analysis. Prepares management and statistical summaries and reports. Design and set up databases for data coding and entry, gather and manage data, conduct statistical analysis and provide interpretation of results to support research findings or business decisions
- Data Analysis:
- Work with managers/investigators to develop and implement analysis plans
- Filter or clean the data to remove errors and ensure consistency
- Correct errors or remove data from database
- Draft tables and develop figures for manuscripts/reports and presentation materials
- Construct data files in multiple formats for analysis
- Perform appropriate statistical analysis such as correlation, regression or time series
- Interpret data and summarize results
- Data Collection, Assessment, and Systems Management:
- Identify trends and communicate findings to support strategic decision-making, planning, and evaluation in the Career Center
- Gather Career Center usage and engagement data, including but not limited to advising appointments, program attendance, and Handshake and website usage and employer engagement data
- Use existing tools within the Career Center such as Handshake, PeopleGrove, and other systems to pull and analyze student, employer, and alumni engagement
- Develop strong understanding of various data systems across the University and how they can be best integrated with Career Center data
- Ensure data is collected by demographic groups including class year, undergraduate, graduate, alumni, race, gender, ethnicity, first gen status
- Track who is and is not utilizing the CC services and delivering those insights to Career Center leadershipto inform engagement decisions
- Partner across the department (advising, employer relations, mentoring, and alumni career services) on the systems each team uses to ensure timely and accurate upload of users and integrity of the data within
- Update and maintain data sets and ensure data security and full compliance with student data privacy
- Destination Outcomes Collection
- Manage collection and reporting of annual destination outcomes data for post-graduation (AS&E undergrad students) plus internships, co-ops, research experiences during their time at Tufts
- Report outcomes to National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) - a major professional association in the field that reports on trends in college student post-graduation employment
- Work with Marketing and Communications Assistant Director to highlight data on website for current and future students, parents, and others. Analyze data for trends and to help the office determine use of resources
- Reporting and Communication
- Provide Career Center data to be included in regular reports for the Executive Director, and as requested by internal and external groups at all levels of the university (Trustees, Provost, Deans, Faculty, etc.) including but not limited to students engaged in internships, doing research with professors, percentage of first-generation students with various career outcomes.
- Track internal monthly statistics on office usage, website usage, job and internship postings and employer engagement
- Provide yearly report to admissions on office statistics useful in recruiting new students
- Analyze data for different audiences both internal and external to Tufts
- Support data requests from colleagues within the Career Center relating to their career communities and programming
- Other Miscellaneous Duties (examples include but not limited to):
- Helping staff Career Fair
- Helping staff Commencement Fair
What We're Looking For
Basic Requirements:
Knowledge and experience typically acquired by:
- Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience
- 1-3 years data management/analytics and reporting
- Basic SAS/SPSS programming and data manipulation skills, experience creating data entry screens, verification, and documentation. Strong analytical, critical thinking, math and writing skills
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to discern key information from data sets
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills (Excellent capabilities with Microsoft Excel, including proficiency with Pivot Tables, lookup functions, text functions, and logical functions)
- Knowledge of basic statistics
- Ability to learn new reporting and career center systems
- Proven ability to learn new systems quickly, particularly data visualization and reporting tools
- Strong teamwork, organizational and communication skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's Degree
- Experience in a higher education setting
- Experience using Tableau (or similar analytical tools) to develop dashboards is preferred
Pay Range
Minimum $60,000.00, Midpoint $75,000.00, Maximum $90,100.00
Salary is based on related experience, expertise, and internal equity; generally, new hires can expect pay between the minimum and midpoint of the range.
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Tufts University
Mar 18, 2026