Associate Vice President - Institutional Research and Planning

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Job Description

Department: Institutional Research and Planning

General Statement of Job

The Associate Vice President - Institutional Research and Planning (AVP – IRP) leads the institutional strategic planning processes. This role involves organizing, designing, coordinating, supervising, and implementing strategic planning and related key initiatives, including the Quality Enhancement Plan. The AVP ensures the college aligns its mission, goals, key performance indicators, regular assessments, and departmental unit-level planning, promoting data-informed decision-making at all levels. Responsibilities include ensuring data governance, coordinated institutional reporting and research, and regular assessment of institutional data maturity. The AVP is also responsible for developing and sustaining a culture of data-informed planning, data literacy, and decision-making across the college, and serves as the institutional regional accreditation (SACSOC) liaison, ensuring successful submission of all accreditation reports, reviews, and submissions.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Leads the strategic planning process, including development, implementation, and evaluation of institutional progress.
• Oversees the Strategic Initiative Office, ensuring alignment with institutional priorities and goals.
• Directs institutional improvement initiatives aligned with the mission, strategic plan, and key performance indicators.
• Chairs the Institutional Leadership Council and Planning and Effectiveness Committee, fostering broad-based dialogue and awareness of key institutional initiatives directions.
• Coordinates development and monitoring of key performance indicators in line with the mission, strategic plan, performance-based funding, and external requirements.
• Provides leadership for strategic initiatives aimed at increasing student access, success, and completion.
• Creates and executes a 5-year operational planning process defining organizational objectives and tactics.
• Integrates strategic planning, initiatives, operational planning, institutional effectiveness, and budget development.
• Leads projects related to institutional evaluation, research, effectiveness, and reporting.
• Oversees the collection, maintenance, and distribution of institutional data.
• Collaborates with other departments to connect strategic planning, budgeting, and measurable objectives.
• Chairs the Data Management and Integrity Committee to ensure data integrity and maturity.
• Works with the Chief Information Officer on data governance and maturity goals.
• Provides oversight for data collection and analysis systems supporting unit level review and assessment.
• Designs and implements systems to improve data-informed culture and literacy campus-wide.
• Leads development of data self-service tools, including the institutional data portal and visualization.
• Ensures data availability for decision-making at all levels.
• Serves as the SACSCOC accreditati