The College of the North Atlantic - Qatar is inviting nominations and applications for the position of Business Intelligence Specialist in the Institutional Excellence Department. Reporting to the Institutional Research Manager. The Business Intelligence Specialist must be a proven leader with the skills and expertise necessary to support the Institutional Excellence Department in fully implementing the College’s mission and vision.

College of the North Atlantic - Qatar Profile:

The beautiful and culturally progressive State of Qatar is home to the world-class post-secondary institution, College of the North Atlantic-Qatar (CNA-Q).  Internationally recognized as a comprehensive technical college, CNA-Q is committed to high quality, student-centered education.  This commitment is reflected through state-of-the-art facilities, accessible and responsive technology programs and strong partnerships with industry.

With more than 600 staff and 3,000 students, CNA-Q is one of Qatar’s largest post-secondary institutions offering over 30 diploma programs through student-centred learning. By providing training in a range of technical areas including Engineering Technology, Health Sciences, Industrial Trades, Business Studies and Information Technology, CNA-Q brings the State closer to the goals of Qatar National Vision 2030.

Duties & Responsibilities:

This position requires an energetic and enthusiastic individual who will gather, process, and communicate information from analytics, data, and metrics to support all CNA-Q schools and departments in their strategic decision-making process.

Candidates should have an outstanding record of industry experience, and possess the qualifications necessary to be successful in the role of Business Intelligence Specialist at the College of the North Atlantic-Qatar. The Business Intelligence Specialist is responsible to support the Institutional Excellence Department with the development of CNA-Q’s strategic and operational plans.  

The Successful Candidate will be responsible for developing, implementing, analyzing and sustaining analytics tools and reports, financial and business performance metrics, trending for activity models and provide forecast and impact assessments.

The successful candidate will develop and provide executive management with accurate and timely reports and comprehensive dashboards, including development of self-service reporting capability and creating Business Intelligence (BI) visual analytics standards, business rules and processes.

The successful candidate will develop and maintain robust working relationships with internal/external stakeholders and work with key executives, consultants and financial stakeholders with feasibility exercises, what-if analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and evaluation of options for any given project, initiative and strategic directions aligned with CNAQ vision.

The successful candidate will design dashboards to measure the key performance metrics and identify areas for improvement in data integrity, conduct regular audit and sense check analysis to ensure all the information provided through BI platform is accurate and up-to-date.

The successful candidate will also verify user list access to ensure only authorized personnel have the access to the reports and dashboard.  Other important functions include interpreting, evaluating and correlating research data and developing integrated business analysis to ensure inclusion into the strategic planning process.

The successful candidate should possess the ability to determine KPls across the organization and key departments in line with the balanced score card and other strategic objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats.

The successful candidate will contribute towards setting goals, objectives and performance metrics for the Business Intelligence function as well as the implementation of BI function’s strategy in coordination with CNAQ’s overall vision.

Job Details

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