Campus Director of Institutional Research

Details:

Posted: February 5, 2025
Level: Community College Professional 19, 12-month, tenure track position.
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Closing Date: The committee will begin review of applications immediately. Applications must be submitted by 5:00pm (EST) on Wednesday, March 5, 2025.

Location:

CT State Community College
Covering both Gateway (New Haven, CT) and Housatonic (Bridgeport, CT) Campuses
**This position is not remote**
For more information, please visit the campus website or www.ct.edu/hr/jobs

CT State Community College Mission:

Connecticut State Community College provides access to academically rigorous and innovative education and training focused on student success. The college supports excellence in teaching and learning, makes data-informed decisions, promotes equity, and advances positive change for the students, communities and industries it serves.

CT State Community College Vision:

Connecticut State Community College is recognized for exceptional student success, educational leadership and transformative collaboration with business and industry, government, educational and key stakeholders while advancing diverse opportunities for Connecticut’s citizens and communities.

CT State Community College Equity Statement:

Connecticut State Community College commits to bold and disruptive change by actively identifying, naming, and dismantling structural racism, systemic poverty, and other barriers; establishing equitable and anti-racist policies and practices; and empowering students, faculty, staff, and administrators to advance racial, social, and economic justice. Our core collective responsibility is to continuously assess practices and policies and transform the world we live in by eliminating inequities.

Anticipated Start Date: 

May 2025

Position Summary:

The Campus Director of Institutional Research performs complex and comprehensive analyses of information about such subject areas as applicant and student demographics, student academic histories, course offerings, institutional effectiveness, and alumni career outcomes to provide guidance to faculty, staff, and administrators on the effectiveness of Connecticut State Community College’s (CT State’s) and local campuses’ strategic direction.

The Campus Director will employ advanced data transformation techniques, qualitative survey data and statistical methods to collect, analyze and interpret a wide array of information to provide planning and decision support to CT State administrators on strategic planning and evaluation. A significant portion of the position’s scope of work involves reporting institutional compliance to external agencies and doing mandatory reporting for State and Federal agencies. The Campus Director will manage data requests at their home campus(es) and perform institutional research for other CT State campuses and offices, the CSCU System Office, and external constituencies as needed while maintaining appropriate procedures for ensuring subject privacy and data security.

The Campus Director also plays a critical role in supporting CT State in its efforts to govern the production, distribution and access to data and the democratization of institutional research to various college constituencies

Example of Job Duties:

Under CT State Senior Director of Institutional Research as designated by the CT State Associate Vice President of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning, the Campus Director of Institutional Research is accountable for performing complex and comprehensive analyses of data and information about CT State, its programs, and its students (past, present and future), in order to afford useful and reliable guidance to administrators on the effectiveness of the institution and on future strategic planning. This work may include, but not be limited to, the following primary duties:

• Querying database management systems, developing spreadsheets or/and other structured data products, and application of computerized statistical systems.
• Conducting complex statistical analyses of data.
• Interpreting data for meaning and direction on future courses of action.
• Designing and developing useful and reliable data products.
• Storing, safeguarding and retrieving such data.
• Preparing reports of data on a wide variety of subject areas in formats useful to decision makers and in ample time for critical decisions.
• Conducting surveys and other data gathering efforts.
• Analyzing trends and their impact on planning and decision making.
• Developing and recommending evidence-based strategies for administrators.

In addition to the accountabilities listed above, the incumbent is re