Job Description
Department:
Institutional Research - Staff
Pay Rate Type:
Salary
Employee Type:
Job Summary:
The Office of Institutional Research and Analytics is the hub for organizational intelligence about Colby College, supporting decision making at levels of the institution and serving as the authoritative source of statistical information about the college. The associate director plays an integral role in fulfilling the office’s goals and objectives. The position is responsible for managing and maintaining the office’s reporting database, overseeing external reporting for the college, responding to ad hoc requests for data, developing reports and dashboards, and analyzing and presenting data to a variety of constituencies.
EssentialFunctions
Toperformsuccessfullyinthisposition,anindividualmustbeabletoperformessentialdutiessatisfactorilyaswellaspossesseducation/experience,employtheknowledge,skills,andabilitiesaslistedin representative fashion. Colby College actively supports the Americans with Disabilities Act andwill consider reasonable accommodations to enableindividualswithdisabilitiestoperformtheessential functionsoftheposition.Thislistingofessentialdutiesisnotall-inclusive,butrepresentative;other dutiesmaybeassigned.
DataManagement:
- MaintaintheOffice’sofficialreportingdatabasebyimportingfilesfromsourceenterprisesystemseachterm,ensuringdataintegrity,andupdatingfieldsasnecessary.
- SupportdatagovernanceprocessesandinitiativesattheCollegebyservingonrelevantcommitteesandhelpingtoaddressandresolvedatagovernance-relatedissuesastheyarise.
- Assist with the administration and management of various institutional surveys to collect data on issues of importance to the College.
Reporting:
- Manageexternalreporting(IPEDS,CDS,AAUP,collegerankings/guidebooksurveys,etc.).
- Respond to ad hoc requests for data and analysis from internal constituencies and, whenappropriate, external parties.
Analytics & Data Visualization:
- Develop and/or maintain reports and dashboards with official reporting and operational data for the institution, senior management team, and campus units/departments.
- Conduct and/or support the Director in conducting analysis of issues of importance to the College.
Administration:
- Support the director in representing the office on various campus committees and provideanalytical support to other offices as required.
- Assist in supervising junior staff and/or student workers in the office.
- Assist in developing, reviewing, and implementing office policies.
- Manage operations of the office when the Director is absent.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field with coursework in statistics, research methods, or datascience required.
- Five to seven years of experience in institutional research or a closely related field.
- Experienceandexpertiseinworkingwithlarge-scalerelationaldatabases,includingtheabilitytoextractdataandwritereportsfromsuchdatabasesusingSQL.
- Proficiencyinananalyticalsoftwarepackageand/orlanguage,suchasR,SPSS,orPython.
- Solidunderstandingoffundamentalstatisticalconceptsandtraininginmoreadvancedtechniques(regression,clustering,dimensionreduction,etc.).
- Experienceandexpertisewithdatavisualizationtools,preferablyTableau.
- Experience with survey software, survey design, administration, and analysis.
- Ability to present and visualize data in ways that are compelling and appropriate.
- Strong attention to detail, balanced with the ability to see and understand the “big picture.”
- Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical information to individuals of various backgrounds.
- Collaborative and communicative approach to working with individuals and offices at all levels of the institution.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple projects, and meet deadlines.
- Flexible and open to new approaches to projects, while adhering to standards of the institutional research profession.
PreferredQualifications:Experience:
- Master’sDegreeinanAnalyticfield.
Physical/MentalDemands
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described herein are representative ofthose that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this positionand/or may be encountered while performing essential functions.Reasonable accommodations may bemade to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- To successfully perform the essential functions of this position, an employee must be able tomaintain appropriate confidentiality with regard to employee data, documents, issues, etc., andrespect privacy needs of employees and past employees with regard to the same.
- Theabilitytocomplywithhighlyinflexibledeadlinesisrequiredtosuccessfullyperformthe essentialfunctionsofthisposition;therewillbemultipleoccurrencesofsudden,urgenttask completionrequired.
- There may be occurrences of employees, past employees, members of the general public, andothers who express opinions, may exhibit strong emotions, which will require the employee tointeract professionally, diplomatically, and appropriately in such situations.
- While performing the essential duties of this position, an employee would frequently be required to move around the office space as well as within hallways, meeting rooms, and otherparts of the campus facilities.
- There may be multiple/daily instances of prolonged personal computer use which would includekeyboard and/or mouse usage as well as viewing a computer monitor.
- Anemployeemustfrequentlyliftand/ormoveupto10poundsandoccasionallyliftand/ormoveupto35poundstoperformessentialpositionfunctions.
- Specificvisionabilitiesrequiredbythispositionincludeclosevision,distancevision,andabilitytoadjustfocus.
- Theoverallworkenvironmentrequiresthementalabilitytoshiftfocusquicklyduetointerruptions;anemployeemustbeabletomentallytrackmultipleprojectsandtasksaswell.
- Thenoiselevelintheworkenvironmentisusuallymoderate;however,theremaybeunexpected instancesofsomewhatloudsounds.
To Apply:
Interestedcandidatesshouldapplyelectronicallybyclickingthe“ApplyNow”buttonontheColby
Collegewebsite.Pleaseuploadacoverletterandresumetoyourapplication.
