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Boston College Report Developer in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Boston College Introduction
Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,484 full-time undergraduates and 5,250 graduate and professional students. Ranked 35 among national universities, Boston College has 888 full-time and 1,281 FTE faculty, 2,711 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.4 billion, and an endowment in excess of $3.5 billion.
Job Description
As we embark on Soaring Higher: the Campaign for Boston College, we invite you to join our community. Driven by our mission in ways that advance the university for years to come, priority areas for this $3B comprehensive campaign include Financial Aid, Academics, and Student Life.
Based on a fundamental Jesuit tenet of developing the whole person, University Advancement is large enough to benefit from many campus resources, yet small enough to be agile and creative in supporting all associates. With an average tenure of close to 10 years at Boston College, our 250-person centralized organizational structure offers a variety of roles across fundraising, alumni relations, operations, and communications and engagement. We invest in the professional growth of every staff member through individual and team-based programs. Likewise, we aim to attract the very best, seeking team members who are as ambitious and as committed to our team as we are. We value a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging while actively promoting team members who contribute to the success of University Advancement.
See below the current opportunity to begin (or return to!) your Boston College experience!
Job Description:
Reporting to the Associate Director, Systems Management & Data Analysis, the Report Developer is the first responder to all reporting inquires for University Advancement, collaborating with colleagues from across the division to deliver information in a timely fashion to help achieve the fundraising and engagement goals of Boston College.
The Report Developer will be responsible for:
Running ad hoc queries and creating reports from the Blackbaud CRM application on a daily basis using a variety of reporting tools and business intelligence tools.
Coordinating basic data imports through CRM Batch utilities, BrightVine Data Loader or partnership with UA Systems Management & Data Analysis team or ITS programmer/developers.
Collaborating with the Senior Business Systems Analyst to ensure that all report requests, application updates, and business processes are properly documented and tested before deployment.
Collaborating with the Associate Director, Data Management and Records Assistants to ensure the data integrity of the CRM database.
Collaborating with UA/ITS Developers when application data or configuration needs to be added or changed.
This successful candidate will possess the technical skills to assist the Systems Management & Data Analysis Team using variety of reporting tools including but not limited to: Blackbaud CRM Ad-Hoc Query, Export Definitions, T-SQL, SQL Server Reporting Studio, Power BI, Tableau, Oracle Application Express and Excel.
Full-Time Equivalent Hiring Range: $61,650 - $77,050; salary commensurate with relevant experience.
Requirements
Job Requirements:
This position requires a Bachelor’s degree and one to three years application development and reporting experience with development and alumni data processing systems, preferably in an institution of higher education in a campaign environment.
Technical and operational support skills required include:
Knowledge of development and alumni data processing systems; Blackbaud CRM is preferred.
Experience in developing reports using T-SQL and Business Intelligence tools listed above.
Excellent analytical skills for application and report specification development; must be able to communicate well with personnel of varying technical expertise in order to translate their business needs.
In addition, must have good interpersonal, oral and written communication skills, an aptitude for working with numerical data, an ability to work independently with careful attention to detail, a respect for the confidentiality of donor records and a customer service focus. To be successful, must be able to balance priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced office environment.
Must be a team player who is highly motivated and dedicated to the goals of advancing higher education and have an appreciation for Jesuit Catholic education and the goals and values of Boston College.
The office of University Advancement supports the mission of Boston College by promoting a culture of inclusion that values each individual. Our recruiting practices support that commitment to build diverse teams reflecting our community; students, alumni, parents and friends of Boston College.
Closing Statement
Boston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:
Tuition remission for Employees
Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements
Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
Low-Cost Life Insurance
Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans
Paid Holidays Annually
Generous Sick and Vacation Pay
Additional benefits can be found on https://www.bc.edu/employeehandbook
Boston College conducts pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process.
Boston College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. In concert with our Jesuit, Catholic mission, Boston College is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and covered veterans. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at https://www.bc.edu/diversity .
Boston College's Notice of Nondiscrimination can be viewed at https://www.bc.edu/nondiscrimination .