Position Title: Graduate Assistant – Data Specialist
Position dates: Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 (Summer 2015 hours available if desired). Training April – May 2015
Position hours: Up to ten hours per week
Requirements: Must be enrolled as full-time graduate student (6 hours per semester) in Fall 2015 and Spring 2016
Resume drop deadline: April 3, 2015

Primary Job Duties:

  • Assist Career Coach, Assistant Director, and Director in tracking internship and full-time job offer data of undergraduate students
  • Utilize online offer system to create/manage Excel spreadsheets to track data
  • Track data in Excel spreadsheets, create pivot tables, and calculate percentages
  • Generate data for Business Week Statistics – used for Business School rankings
  • Create reports on a weekly basis (audience: Career Coaches, Dean Gilligan, Faculty, etc.)
  • Generate reports weekly based on requests “on-demand reports” turnaround time, typically only one or two days

Additional Job Duties:

  • Track vendor feature enhancements and service request for offer system
  • Conduct quality assurance on data entered into online offer system
  • Conduct quality assurance on online offer system
  • Identify errors in online offer system and test fixes made by technology team
  • Update online offer system with new employer data
  • Investigate and fix errors in online offer system
  • Manual data entry into online offer system
  • Analyze prior year reports to come up with new ways to present data efficiently

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Knowledge of Excel – basic functionality as well as knowledge of Excel formulas (VLookup, Countif, etc.) and pivot table functionality
  • Comfortable working with moderately large datasets
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Ability to work with confidential information

Interested students should email resume, cover letter, and a list of three references to Many Kious (mandy.kious@mccombs.utexas.edu).