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Education Data Scientist

Position Number: 9758231
Location: Bakersfield, United States
Position Type: Institutional Research and Planning

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 monthlyMaximum Entry Level Salary: $ 8,022.42 monthly SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONSFirst Review of Applications: Complete application packets will be accepted until the position is filled; but those received by August 25, 2026, are assured consideration. The College reserves the right to extend time limits or re-initiate the recruitment/selection process at any point.

Completed application packet must include:
Completed Online Application for Employment form
Current resume
Letter of interest (Cover Letter)
Copy of legible transcripts
List of five (5) professional references - Listed on application form

It is the applicant's responsibility to redact (or remove) any personal information from all documents prior to uploading. This includes Social Security Numbers, Date of Birth, and any photos of the applicant.

Foreign Degree: Applicants with foreign degrees from colleges or universities outside of the United States must have their coursework evaluated by a professional association that is a member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) or Academic Credentials Evaluation Institute, INC. (ACEI). A copy of the evaluation must be submitted with your on-line application.

Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to participate in the selection process should contact Human Resources to make the necessary arrangements. EEO Plan 2021-2024

Note: The District is strongly committed to achieving staff diversity and the principles of equal employment opportunity. The District encourages a diverse pool of applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race or ethnicity, color, medical condition, genetic information, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, or because he/she is perceived to have one or more of the foregoing characteristics, or based on association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law, in any of its policies, procedures or practices. Discrimination Free Work Environment.

The District does not provide sponsorship for authorization to work in the United States. Work authorization should be established at the time of application submission.

Important Instructions & Additional Information

Complete applications received by the "assured consideration date" above are guaranteed to be reviewed by Human Resources. If you apply after this date, there is no guarantee that your application will be reviewed. However, we still recommend that you apply because recruitments remain open until filled. The District and/or College reserves the right to extend time limits and/or repost or restart recruitments at any point.

Completed applications must include the following.

Completed online application for employment
Current resume
Letter of interest (cover letter)
List of 5 (five) professional references (entered in online application)
Copy of legible transcripts (if required for the position)

It is your responsibility to redact or remove any personally identifiable information from all documents prior to uploading, including Social Security numbers, date of birth, photos, etc.

For all positions, sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, shall be considered a core system competency and job requirement. (5 CCR 53022)

Equivalency for Minimum Qualifications

Applicants for faculty and educational administrator positions in California Community Colleges are required to meet certain minimum qualifications as provided by the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office and detailed in the Minimum Qualifications for Faculty and Administrators in California Community Colleges handbook. If you do not meet these minimum qualifications, you may still be eligible by completing the KernCCD Application for Equivalence process. Please see our Faculty Equivalency Process website for more information.

International or Foreign Degrees

Applicants with international or foreign degrees from colleges or universities outside of the United States must have their coursework evaluated by a professional association that is a member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) or Academic Credentials Evaluation Institute, INC. (ACEI). A copy of the evaluation must be submitted with your online application.

Accommodations

Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to participate in the selection process should contact Human Resources to make the necessary arrangements. (For more information, see our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Equal Employment Opportunities website.)

Discrimination Free Work Environment

Discrimination based on race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation of any person, military and veteran status, or the perception that a person has one or more of these characteristics is illegal and violates Kern Community College District policy.

The Kern CCD Equal Employment Opportunity Plan guides the development, implementation, and monitoring of the District's efforts to foster equal employment opportunities and workplace diversity.

See our Discrimination-Free Work Environment webpage for more information.

Work Authorization

Kern Community College District does not provide sponsorship for authorization to work in the United States. Work authorization should be established at the time of application submission.

E-Verify

The Kern Community College District participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's E-Verify program to verify the identity and employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, please visit e-verify.gov.

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All applicants must apply online at https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/kccd/jobs/5435027/education-data-scientist. Emails will not be accepted.

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