RPIE Data Analyst & Program Assessment

JOB SUMMARY:

The Cooper Union’s Retraining Program for Immigrant Engineers (RPIE) is a free professional development opportunity that supports immigrant, refugee, and asylee engineers as they build a competitive portfolio to equip them for the professional workforce and the career they want. RPIE fosters a supportive community and empowers participants to activate their past experience as they develop the skills most in-demand in today’s market. The Program has two primary components: a technical curriculum that allows participants to develop in-demand engineering skills, gain US experience, and prepare for certification exams; and a robust professional development sequence that encourages participants to build individually-tailored career strategies and strengthen the soft skills required for leading industries.

RPIE’s Data Analyst role is responsible for tracking, collecting, and analyzing participant data as well as sector, industry, and position data accessed through the Lightcast platform and public data sets. The Data Analyst will develop in-program data collection systems including, but not limited to, application and survey data for current and past participants; identify professional industry trends as well as track and analyze trends in immigration, refugee and asylum seeker policy and local supports.

RPIE participants represent over forty nationalities and have backgrounds in thirty engineering specializations, including Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, and Chemical engineering, as well as architecture, IT, and programming. All participants enter with at least an undergraduate degree, and 35% have an advanced degree. Over 60% of participants have substantial previous professional experience.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collect and analyze participant data

• Track participant job placement

• Track and analyze program participation

• Develop program data analysis systems to track across participant sector, background, program, and goal

• Design, with program leadership, and implement program surveys

• Perform sector analysis

• Write reports as needed for program, RPIE website, or Program industry

resource packets

• Develop program, sector, and population research to increase program outreach, efficacy, and efficiency

• Provide sector reports and analysis through Lightcast

• Identify engineering sector trends

SKILLS/REQUIREMENTS

• At least two years of experience with data analysis

• Experience developing data tracking systems

• Familiarity working with databases

• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills

• Familiarity with Lightcast (formerly EMSI) or similar tool preferred

• Past experience working with immigrants, refugees, and asylum

seekers preferred

• Outstanding communication skills

• Strong organizational skills

• Proficiency with MS Office

• Proficiency with Excel

• Familiarity with MS Team preferred

EDUCATION

• Advanced degree or work toward advanced degree preferred