Director of Institutional Research & Effectiveness

We are seeking a Director of Institutional Research, who oversees the Office of Institutional Research and who reports to the Vice President for Strategic Initiatives. This position will be responsible for developing, managing, and implementing a comprehensive institutional research program that will support the College’s strategic planning priorities, evidence-based decision making, and overall institutional effectiveness. Primary duties of the Director of Institutional Research, who serves as the data steward for the College, include compilation, confirmation of accuracy, analysis, interpretation, and communication and/or submission of all data and assessment-related information required by external agencies or requested by internal stakeholders in order to inform planning and resource allocation decisions and/or support the College’s assessment and effectiveness efforts.

This is an exempt, administrative full-time position.

PLEASE APPLY AT Recruitment (adp.com).

Example Of Duties

• Plan and coordinate the maintenance, analysis, and reporting of all statistical information and data useful to the College.
• Assist with the development and implementation of the College’s planning, assessment, and effectiveness program.
• Prepare written reports for internal and external constituencies, which include federal, state, accrediting, and external grant and initiative agencies.
• Ensure all federal, state, and other external reporting requirements are submitted or responded to accurately and in a timely manner.
• Serve as a liaison from the College to various federal, state, and other external agencies for data reporting, research studies, surveys, etc.
• Collaborate with and provide data expertise/guidance to administrators, faculty, and staff who need to identify, collect, analyze, or interpret data in order to address institutional priorities
• Analyze and interpret data to produce audience-appropriate reports, executive summaries, fact sheets, graphic presentations, visualizations, dashboards, etc.
• Develop and implement methods for communicating information to members of the College community.
• Devise and administer surveys, questionnaires, and other forms of information retrieval to support the assessment activities of the College.
• Supervise the daily operation of the Office of Institutional Research.
• Actively participate in Data Governance efforts and activities at the College, which will include initiating and resolving systems and data quality issues related to required data sets and institutional databases used for mandated federal, state, and other external data reporting.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a research-related field is required
• Three (3) years of professional experience in information gathering, data processing/management and analysis, and reporting, preferably in higher education research
• Functional knowledge and experience using reporting tools for building queries and extracting data from student information systems such as Colleague or Anthology and other institutional data structures and mainframe databases
• Functional knowledge and experience using statistical software packages and data visualization tools for data analysis, retrieval, and dissemination is required; experience with SPSS and Tableau or PowerBI are preferred
• Ability to write concise, analytical, data-rich reports directed to a specific readership
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Organizational, detail-oriented, and time management skills
• Proven ability to work both independently and in diverse teams
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently and prioritize work to ensure all deadlines are met

The completion of a background check will be required for the selected candidate.

PLEASE APPLY AT Recruitment (adp.com).