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QSIU is seeking a passionate individual to take the position of Team Leader/Analyst in our Bucharest office. This position will require a unique combination of personal drive, analytical capability, and an interest in higher education coupled together with strong people management skills.
In addition to the management responsibilities the role will also be respoinsible for delivering projects as part of our QS Stars university evealuation system and writing reports as part of our performance benchmarking service. In addition to the attributes above this will require strong analytical capability, as well as the ability to gain insights from data and articulate them in clearly written reports in English. You will also contribute to other research outputs of the unit, including the QS World University Rankings which has a global audience in the 100s of millions.
Who are you?
First and foremost, you will be an experienced manager who loves enabling people to perform at their best.
You will be passionate about what you do, love empowering others, and genuinely care about other people.
You will be comfortable with your reportees working in a matrix-style management environment where they will be working for substantial amounts of time for other managers.
You will have strong communication skills and enjoy giving people feedback. Equally, you will be confident in communicating from a distance with managers in our London office and help to make sure that QSIU’s dynamic working culture grows in the Bucharest office.
Additionally, you will be able to write professionally and eloquently in English, and to be sufficiently insightful to identify interesting stories and trends from varied data sets. You will also be confident undertaking desk-based research with limited supervision/guidance and enjoy detail oriented work.
An effective team player, you will bring a flexible attitude in to the office with you every day – being equally prepared to contribute to team-wide data collection and validation efforts as you will be to work on your own initiative on your own allocated projects.
Responsibilities include:
• Leading QSIU’s Bucharest team including line management of key analytical staff
• Watching out for the welfare of team members, and making sure we foster an innovative and dynamic working culture in the office
• Drafting lengthy standardised and non-standardised reports for high profile university clients from around the world that include targetted recommendations
• Undertaking self-directed desk-based research and delivering data-rich projects on the higher education sector
• Detailed validation of data
• Working with other analysts based both in Bucharest and London to ensure the report output is of an impeccable quality to meet our customer’s expectations
• Developing and maintaining both personal and organisational expertise in the area of institutional research in higher education
The QS Intelligence Unit (a division of QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd), is one of the world’s leading compilers of independent market research and institutional evaluations in international higher education. The unit (QSIU) publishes a range of highly visible and influential rankings of international universities including the QS World University Rankings®, a range of reports on the trends and opinions of internationally mobile students and the viewpoint of employers as well as operating a range of commercially successful reporting, evaluation and bespoke consultancy services for individual universities.
• Highly adaptable and quick learner
• Experience in managing analytical staff, ideally in an international company
• Ability to manage workload and competing deadlines with minimal hand holding and to help the team do the same
• A professional attitude and a strong work ethic
• Ability to analyse quantitative and qualitative data and to synthesise clear narratives and conclusions
• Excellent writing skills in English, including the ability to explain complex concepts to a non-technical audience
• Excellent spoken communication in English
• Direct client contact experience at some level with a focus on customer satisfaction
• Interest in or experience in working in Higher Education sector desirable
• Additional languages would be a distinct advantage, in particular Russian, Spanish or Portuguese
Competitive compensation
Medical subscription to Medlife
Modern office near Cismigiu Park
Friendly international environment
Opportunity to develop your skills in international education industry
Please apply with updated CV in English. Only suitable candidates shall be contacted.
Thank you!
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