Job Details
Job Description
The Independent Institute of Education (IIE) is a registered private higher education provider and a wholly owned subsidiary of ADvTECH Ltd, listed on the JSE.
The IIE’s Academic Centre of Excellence (ACE) is excited to invite applications for the role of an experienced Data Analyst to support the implementation of our Academic Quality Management System (AQMS) across our tertiary education brands.
The AQMS is a strategic initiative designed to strengthen how we manage academic quality, oversight, and reporting across the institution. It introduces clearer measurement, improved visibility, and more consistent accountability across key governance processes.
The Data Analyst plays a central role in defining how institutional quality performance is measured and reported. They establish clear metrics, standardise data definitions across brands, and design dashboards that provide meaningful insight to academic and executive leadership.
This role works closely with governance, compliance, IT, and reporting teams to ensure that information generated by the system is accurate, consistent, and decision-ready.
Role purpose:
The Data Analyst is responsible for defining and operationalising how academic quality performance and risk are measured within the AQMS.
This role establishes standardised data definitions, designs leading and lagging indicators, and translates governance processes into structured reporting and executive dashboards.
By aligning data architecture with institutional oversight requirements, the Data Analyst ensures that performance information is accurate, consistent across brands, and suitable for enterprise reporting and MIS integration.
Governance Measurement Framework Design
- Define institutional quality KPIs and risk indicators aligned to governance objectives
- Establish clear leading and lagging performance metrics
- Standardise metric definitions across tertiary brands
- Document calculation logic, definitions, and reporting assumptions
Data Architecture and Metric Design
- Map system data structures to governance measurement requirements
- Identify data capture gaps and define required enhancements
- Ensure traceability between workflows, compliance checkpoints, and reporting outputs
Dashboard and Reporting Design
- Design executive dashboards aligned to governance and institutional oversight needs
- Develop structured reports supporting academic and operational monitoring
- Validate reporting logic and ensure data accuracy and integrity
Enterprise Reporting Alignment
- Define reporting requirements for enterprise business intelligence implementation
- Translate AQMS data structures into formal reporting specifications
- Support alignment between AQMS outputs and broader management information system architecture
Data Governance and Integrity
- Define data ownership principles and quality control measures
- Monitor data integrity and escalate inconsistencies where required
- Maintain audit-ready documentation of metric definitions and reporting frameworks
Required Experience and Capability
- 5+ years’ experience in data analysis within enterprise environments
- Experience designing KPI frameworks and performance measurement models
- Experience defining and documenting data definitions and calculation logic
- Hands-on experience with Zoho Analytics or similar BI tools
- Experience working with Power BI reporting environments
- Strong conceptual modelling and structured analytical thinking
- Experience operating within regulated or governance-driven environments
Advantageous:
- Experience in higher education or quality assurance environments
- Exposure to management system standards such as ISO-based frameworks
Minimum Qualification
Bachelor’s degree (NQF Level 7) in Data Science, Statistics, Business Analytics, Information Systems or Industrial Engineering
Advantageous
- Postgraduate qualification in Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, or related field
- Formal BI tool certification including the Microsoft Azure platform and Fabric.
- Exposure to governance or regulated environments
Behavioural Profile
- Strong conceptual and analytical capability
- Confidence defining and standardising institutional measurement frameworks
- Ability to engage cross-functional stakeholders with clarity and credibility
- Skill in translating complex governance requirements into structured, measurable indicators
- High attention to accuracy, documentation integrity, and data quality
- A disciplined, methodical approach to problem-solving
Performance Indicators
- Quality and clarity of governance measurement framework
- Accuracy and consistency of metric definitions
- Effectiveness of leading indicator design
- Stability and usability of Zoho Analytics dashboards
- Successful articulation of requirements to Power BI team
- Reduction in reporting ambiguity across brands
About the Project
The Academic Quality Management System (AQMS) is a strategic institutional governance transformation initiative aligned to ISO principles and national higher education quality standards. The programme establishes a structured, defensible, and intelligence-driven academic quality oversight environment across multiple tertiary brands, supported by Zoho applications and integrated enterprise reporting frameworks.
