Institutional Research Analyst

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Job Description

Department: Research and Analytical Services (Quantitative)

General Statement of Job

The Institutional Research Analyst collects, processes, manages, and analyzes a variety of quantitative data sets to provide institutional research support to local, state, and federal data requirements and creates data visualizations.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Interprets, evaluates, and clarifies research requests to determine potential data sources.
• Creates and maintains databases for research queries from a wide variety of internal and external sources.
• Restructures data files, performs data cleaning operations, and analyzes data using specialized statistical software such as SPSS.
• Interprets the results, provides customized research reports, and effectively communicates the results in a variety of formats.
• Prepares data visualizations to display report findings and performance indicators.
• Prepares and gives presentations to governance committees and groups regarding institutional research, local and state policy issues, enrollment and planning trends and projections, and other research as requested.
• Assists other members of the Research and Analytical Services Department in the establishment of a comprehensive research agenda that supports all areas of the institution.
• Responds to ad hoc requests for research and data analysis.
• Develops and maintains effective working relationships with employees of all divisions throughout the college; functions effectively as a team player.
• Recommends data sources and database design, as well as makes recommendations on all phases of research projects.
• Maintains familiarity with academic assessment and program evaluation.
• Maintains familiarity with the College‘s policies and procedures, as well as state and federal regulations.
• Travels throughout the college district, as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Social Sciences, Marketing, Education, Business, Economics, Computer Information Systems, or a related field required.
• Experience in quantitative research, statistics, data visualizations, or programming preferred.
• Experience with statistics software, database query language, or data visualization software preferred.
• Experience in post-secondary educational environment preferred.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrate knowledge with quantitative research methods and working with large data sets.
• Working knowledge of quantitative data analysis and visualization software or programming language, such as SPSS, R, Power BI, Tableau, or SQL.
• Strong technical documentation and writing skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to work with large complex data.
• Ability to prioritize, organize and complete multiple tasks, within st