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College Board is hiring a Director, Higher Education Data Strategy & Analytics. The role owns the strategy, quality standards, and roadmap for College Board's flagship higher education data programs, including the Annual Survey of Colleges and the Common Data Set partnership, and builds a framework for measuring the college affordability market. The director also analyzes international student mobility to expand recognition of the SAT and AP at universities abroad, working within the Strategy, Analytics, and Insights team alongside Financial Aid, Research, and other program teams.

Highlights

Own strategy, roadmap, and data-quality standards for the Common Data Set partnership, AP Credit Policy survey, and Annual Survey of Colleges, deciding changes to content, timing, and validation and resolving cross-division trade-offs.
Author the annual roadmap and post-cycle findings, with recommendations that modernize technology, improve process quality, and grow institutional participation without putting response rates at risk.
Build an Affordability market measurement framework, including market segmentation, prioritization, and targeting analyses that help more students and families understand what college is likely to cost.
Deliver reports, dashboards, and opportunity scoring on Financial Aid Programs and Services such as the CSS Profile, Net Price Calculator, and MyIntuition, plus usage and benchmarking reports that increase college adoption and retention of these services.
Analyze international student mobility data and develop internal and external reports to help colleagues secure new SAT and AP recognition policies at universities abroad.
Present recommendations to senior leadership and Senior/Executive Director colleagues in other divisions, with decision rights over tool and platform requirements for the surveys, Common Data Set content, and internal dashboard designs.
5+ years of experience in data-intensive work such as data policy, analysis, survey collection, and interpretation, with advanced Excel and SQL skills, a programming language such as R, Stata, or SAS, and experience presenting in Tableau or PowerBI.
Experience in higher education, such as admission, financial aid, or institutional research, and a track record managing external partnerships, leading technology roadmaps, and influencing cross-functional stakeholders.
Familiarity with the Common Data Set and NCES-IPEDS surveys is preferred.
Hiring range of $80,000 to $125,000, adjusted by location; remote role with a hybrid option (Tuesday and Wednesday in office) for candidates near College Board offices, and occasional travel for in-person business meetings.

Director, Higher Education Data Strategy & Analytics Full Description

Director, Higher Education Data Strategy & Analytics

College Board - HMA

Location: This is a remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes.

Role Type: This is a full-time position

About the Team

As a member of the Strategy, Analytics, and Insights team, you will join a small group with big impact, delivering insights to colleagues across program delivery, product development, and strategic outreach. The team drives clear visibility on student and higher ed engagement, highlights areas of opportunity, and builds resources that power insights for internal and external audiences.

About the Opportunity

College Board is seeking a Director, Higher Education Data Strategy & Analytics to advance our core institutional data assets and translate them into strategic insight that helps students, families, and the institutions that serve them to make better decisions. In this role, you will own the strategy, quality standards, and roadmap for College Board's flagship data programs like the Annual Survey of Colleges, author the Affordability market measurement framework, generate analyses that support institutional and student reach, and deliver insights that grow international Higher Education recognition of SAT and AP.

This is a strategic and highly cross-functional role. You will partner closely with colleagues across Strategic Higher Education, Financial Aid Programs and Services, Research, and other program teams to build data infrastructure, generate insights, and drive decisions that advance College Board's mission and market position.

In this role, you will:

Advance College Board's Core Institutional Data Programs (40%)

Own strategy, roadmap, and data-quality standards for the Common Data Set (CDS) partnership, AP Credit Policy survey, and Annual Survey of Colleges (ASC), the higher education sector's most widely used data collection efforts. Decide changes to content, timing, and validation; and identify and support resolutions of cross-division trade-offs.
Author the annual roadmap and post-cycle findings, each with clear recommendations that modernize technology, strengthen process efficiency and quality, and grow institutional participation.
Benchmark against leading programs to challenge legacy collection processes, and pace modernization to improve data quality and completeness without putting response rates at risk.

Shape the Affordability Analytics Framework & Agenda (40%)

Build an Affordability market measurement framework. Generate market segmentation, prioritization, targeting, and related analyses that advance institutional and student reach, increasing the number of students and families that understand what college is likely to cost and how to afford their education
Deliver reports, dashboards, opportunity scoring, and related analyses on our Financial Aid Programs and Services (e.g., CSS Profile, Net Price Calculator, MyIntuition), that drive strategic recommendations for Program & Product Managers
Develop a suite of usage and benchmarking reports for colleges that increases the value, adoption, and retention of these services.

Strengthen SAT/ AP Recognition and Enrollment Leader Engagement (20%)

Support the expansion of SAT and AP recognition policies at international universities by analyzing data on international student mobility, and developing internal/ external reports and actionable intelligence to help colleagues to identify opportunities and secure new policies
Generate market analyses, data tools, and insights that strengthen College Board's thought leadership and drive policy adoption across strategic outreach/ recruitment, admission, financial aid, and retention

How You'll Work

Decision rights: This role makes decisions on tool/ platform requirements for ASC/ APCP, content for CDS and related articles, and designs for internal dashboards. This role escalates recommendations for external reporting to Product Managers for review, and recommendations for net-cost metrics to Executive Director and Unit VP for approval.

Stakeholder level: Present recommendations to HMA leadership and Senior/ Executive Director colleagues in other divisions.

About You

5+ years of experience in data intensive areas, such as data policy, analysis, survey collection, and interpretation
Strong ability to understand big picture context and think creatively about how to solve business challenges
Proficiency in translating general inquiries into specific analytical questions & tasks
Experience presenting complex information in compelling visual ways, including via Tableau/ PowerBI
Ability to analyze large and complex datasets (advanced proficiency in Excel, SQL and programming language such as R, Stata, or SAS)
Experience in higher education (e.g., admission, financial aid, institutional research)
Proficiency managing external partnerships, leading technology roadmaps, and influencing cross-functional stakeholders
Familiarity with the Common Data Set, NCES-IPEDS surveys, and higher education data/reporting preferred
Track record of influencing cross-functional and external partners to adopt your recommendations, and delivering a technology or process roadmap

All roles at College Board require:

A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions and comfort with learning and applying new digital tools independently and proactively.
Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal
A learner's mindset and a commitment to growth: welcoming diverse perspectives, giving and receiving timely, respectful feedback, and continuously improving through iterative learning and user input.
A drive for impact and excellence: solving complex problems, making data-informed decisions, prioritizing what matters most, and continuously improving through learning, user input, and external benchmarking.
A collaborative and empathetic approach: working across differences, fostering trust, and contributing to a culture of shared success
Authorization to work in the United States

About Our Process

Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
While the hiring process may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone/video screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise such as live coding, a panel interview, a conversation with leadership and reference checks.

What We Offer

At College Board, we offer more than a paycheck: we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. We're a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market.

A Thoughtful Approach to Compensation

The hiring range for this role is $80,000-$125,000.
Your exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and how your background compares to others in similar roles at the College Board.
We aim to make our best offer upfront, rooted in fairness, transparency, and market data.
We adjust salaries by location to ensure fairness, no matter where you live.

You'll have open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it's like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process. Check out our careers page for more.

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