Lead Evaluation Analyst

QS ,
London, Greater London
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QS is a global leader in higher education services. We offer student recruitment solutions, data analytics and insight, consultancy, and intelligence to thousands of university clients across the world. The QS Intelligence Unit is one of the world's leading compilers of independent market research and institutional evaluations in international higher education. We empower the social impact of universities by informing their strategic decision making through high-profile competitive intelligence, distinctive evaluation tools and transformational insight. The unit publishes a range of highly visible and influential rankings of international universities including the QS World University Rankings which reaches a global audience of hundreds of millions of people, as well as operating a range of commercially successful reporting, evaluation and bespoke consultancy services for individual universities. We have strong global assets and growth prospects, and we are currently both enhancing our existing business models and nurturing new revenue streams. QS has grown both organically and through acquisition; and through carefully targeted recruitment of top talent across key regions. The Role: QS is currently hiring a for a Senior/Lead Analyst to join the team in the QS Intelligence Unit. The role will lead a small team of analysts, producing our catalogue of university rankings, evaluation activities and a range of other analytical outputs on trends in international higher education. It will also be a key contributor to evaluation activities and the development of new quality standards in the international higher education. The role requires expert analysis capability - the ability to delve into data and turn it in to meaningful and high-impact insights. You will have well developed experience in visualizing data and be skilled in using a range of tools to build well designed data visualizations. You will also be a great communicator, being able to use the insights you develop to draw out the stories and tell those to a range of audiences. The role requires experience in line-managing other analysts and will take a key role in helping to further develop the team and to ensure the team is operating effectively and efficiently. The Requirements: * A track record of leading, inspiring and upskilling small analytical team * Ability to not only critique analysis in a supportive way, but also to anticipate analytical issues that others might encounter and communicate those to key stakeholders * Experience in engaging technical and non-technical senior stakeholders and advisors to ensure they have buy-in into ways of working and opportunities to feedback on any new approaches * Strong communication skills - being able to effectively communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences * The ability to be impartial and delineate between evidence and assumptions * A natural approach of seeking feedback from a range of stakeholders and ability to demonstrate that feedback is being responded to effectively * Excellent skills in utilising Excel and other software to analyse data * Great data visualisation skills using Tableau (or an equivalent data-visualisation package) and demonstrable ability to provide high quality data visualizations * Experience working with R, Python or an equivalent programming/data science language * An understanding the types of data used for performance evaluation in international higher education * Ability to travel internationally from time to time

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