Analyst, Institutional Research

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.

• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:

Analyst, Institutional Research

Job Description Summary:

Workday PID: Position-3-12686; Colleague PID: 323141
Performs research and data analysis to support strategic decision making, institutional goals, and assigned reporting requirements.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

• Designs, conducts, and manages research projects; analyzes data to support strategic planning, including the following: trend analysis, program evaluation, evaluation of college initiatives, decision making, and government reporting requirements; 

• Coordinates information from multiple data sources and complex reports to track performance metrics and compare performance against established goals.

• Uses statistical software programming language to obtain and manipulate data from institutional, proprietary, and publicly available databases.

• Conducts external and internal environmental scanning (e.g., higher education trends, labor market trends, service area population growth, and utilization of college resources).

• Develops and maintains custom computer programs, queries, reports, and dashboards to support internal and external reporting for the college community, state and federal agencies, and other external stakeholders.

• Designs and administers institutional surveys such as graduate follow-up student satisfaction, staff and faculty climate, etc. Coordinates ACC’s participation in national surveys (e.g., Community College Survey of Student Engagement, Survey of Entering Student Engagement, Noel-Levitz, etc.). 

• Analyzes, interprets, and prepares data to effectively communicate findings to internal and external audiences (e.g., via reports, presentations, dashboards, etc.).

• Makes recommendations regarding strategic planning, continuous improvement, effective communication to stakeholders, institutional research, and institutional effectiveness.

• Develops and implements training and technical support for members of the ACC community in strategic planning, data collection, data analysis and literacy, environmental scanning, survey design and administration, research methods, and related topics.

• Uses analytics to make data-informed predictions and prescribe recommendations or actions relating to student retention, success, and enrollment management.

Knowledge

• Advanced statistical analysis methods and software.

• Survey design, methods, and analysis.<