University of California San Diego
Location
La Jolla, CA | United States
Job description
The office of Institutional Research reports to the Executive Vice Chancellor. The mission of Institutional Research is to enhance and foster the effectiveness of UC San Diego by providing institutional research, analyses, and data that supports and strengthens the operation, decision making, policy formulation, and planning processes for faculty and staff at all levels of the organization.
Under the general direction of the Executive Director, assumes leadership and full functional responsibility for the planning, development, implementation, evaluation and management of the Administrative Operations Research and Analytics unit in support of the campus. This includes directly managing professional staff in programmatic and research roles in the planning, development, organizing, implementation, coordination and evaluation of unit projects and operations. Is responsible for coordinating, implementing, and evaluating a comprehensive institutional research program on operational and resource management aspects of UC San Diego faculty, students, and staff involving human resources, academic personnel, finance, and space. The Director establishes and prioritizes short and long range goals for program implementation, growth and assessment. Is responsible for completing management level assignments for the unit including data collection, analysis, interpretation, and reporting; works closely with administrative and academic units to collect and analyze outcomes data. Consults with administrative units in measuring and analyzing performance outcomes; designs, measures and collects data to assess campus-wide goals and objectives.
Manage strategic planning and implementation of an integrated plan for the development of data-informed decisions across the UC San Diego campus, including design of instruments and protocols (qualitative and quantitative), data collection, analysis and reporting. Works closely and collaboratively with administrative and academic units to collect relevant data, from both local and external sources. Analyses includes producing descriptive results and developing sophisticated statistical models to predict outcomes (e.g., linear regression with fixed effects, multilevel modeling, event history analysis, survival analysis).
Serves as technical liaison between Institutional Research, Information Technology Services (ITS) and other institutional data owners to advance institution-wide data quality control. Serves as Institutional Research's project manager for technical efforts related to Enterprise Systems Renewal and large-scale technical tool conversion and infrastructure efforts.
Measures and analyzes performance outcomes to assess progress towards institutional goals and objectives as they relate to administrative and fiscal functions. Participates in research studies related to these operational areas to inform the creation of policy and strategic planning. Supports new initiatives to create and maintain robust accountability systems including the development of departmental strategic plans and assessment tools for personnel, space, and fiscal resources and the campus systems and methods to support them. Serves as a resource to the campus community (students, faculty, administrators) in areas requiring technical expertise and knowledge related to the interpretation and review of operations-related data.
Researches current issues and trends to inform campus decision-making. Synthesizes and summarizes complex information in formats appropriate for various audiences. The Director operates with a high level of autonomy, exercising independent judgment to perform assigned duties and solve problems.
Work Location: Hybrid schedule. Incumbent will be required to come to campus on an as-needed basis.
Knowledge of institutional research and project management skills. Demonstrated experience in researching, writing and discussing institutional research reports for campus wide constituency, including definition of issues and/or problems, quantitative results of statistical analyses, and communications to academic and administrative management.
Able to access information through data warehouses and provide quantitative analysis. Training in qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, with demonstrated experience in program evaluation, applied research methods (e.g., analysis of survey data, longitudinal analysis) and outcomes assessment.
Graduation from college with a major in business administration, statistics, educational administration, or an allied field, and six years of experience in administrative analysis or operations research; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
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About University of California San Diego
UC San Diego is an academic powerhouse and economic engine, recognized as one of the top 8 public universities by U.S. News and World Report. Innovation is central to who we are and what we do. Here, students learn that knowledge isn't just acquired in the classroom - life is their laboratory. UC San Diego's rich academic portfolio includes six undergraduate colleges, five academic divisions and five graduate and professional schools. The university's award-winning scholars are experts at the forefront of their fields with an impressive track record for achieving scientific, medical and technological breakthroughs.
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