Education Data Scientist

Education Data Scientist Kern Community College District Salary: $7,635.85 - $10,789.27 Monthly Job Type: Classified Job Number: FY26-2700030 Location: District Office, CA Department: Institutional Research Below is our job description for this position. Please also review the Important Instructions & Additional Information section below, which contains valuable information about our application process.

Basic Function Reporting to the Dean of Institutional Effectiveness, the Education Data Scientist uses their experience in institutional research and higher education in combination with their data scientist skillset to support the institutional research in developing insights and tools that increase student success. DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS: The Education Data Scientist analyzes large amounts of raw information to find patterns that will help improve operations and student success.

Responsibilities include analysis of current and historical data on students, staff, departmental workload, enrollment, retention, and graduation. The Education Data Scientist executes strategic, innovative data driven analyses that provide valuable insight, working closely with other members of the Office of Institutional Effectiveness in gathering, analyzing, and reporting data. The EDS supports the development of dashboards, data visualizations, and automated reports and consults regularly with campus stakeholders, building productive professional relationships to understand their current processes and needs and to proactively identify opportunities for collaboration, automation, advanced analytics, and project development.

Representative Duties Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes Undertake preprocessing of structured and unstructured data Analyze large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns Use machine learning and other approaches to analyze and categorize student engagement and learning Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms Combine models through ensemble modeling Present information using data visualization techniques Propose solutions and strategies to operational challenges including ways to maximize student success Collaborate with institutional research, planning, and development teams Perform related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications Any combination equivalent to: Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or related field and 2 years of increasingly responsible data warehouse & reporting, programming or systems analysis and design experience. OR An Associate's degree in Computer Science and 4 years of increasingly responsible data warehouse & reporting, programming or systems analysis and design experience.

OR High school diploma, GED or equivalent certificate of competency and 5 years of increasingly responsible data warehouse & reporting, programming or systems analysis and design experience. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Graduate degree in Data Science or another quantitative field. Knowledge & Abilities KNOWLEDGE OF: Knowledge of data extraction, collection, and analysis tools (e.g., R, SQL, Python); familiarity with Canvas, Scala, Java or C++ is an asset Knowledge of machine-learning research ABILITY TO: Ability to use business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau), data warehouses, and data frameworks (e.g., AWS, Redshift, Hadoop) Interact, participate and conduct presentations to individuals, college groups, committees, organizations and others as assigned.

Analytical mind and problem-solving aptitude Prepare comprehensive statistical and narrative reports. Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships Maintain a positive working environment and work towards a common goal. SALARY RANGE $7,635.85 - $10,789.27 monthly Maximum Entry Level Salary: $ 8,022.42 monthly SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS First Review of Applications: Complete application packets will be accepted until the position is filled; but those received by August 25, 2026, are as