Director Institutional Research

JOB SUMMARY

The Director for Institutional Research and Effectiveness conducts and oversees ongoing data collection and analysis, facilitates the College's institutional effectiveness and accreditation processes, and serves as a college leader and role model. This position provides instruction and assistance to all College departments in developing appropriate assessments, maintains the assessment documentation required for reporting, and manages college-wide strategic planning initiatives. The position serves as the primary liaison for college-wide accreditation and as a resource person for program accreditation.

 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Organizes and facilitates data collection, analysis, and dissemination for ongoing College research, planning, assessment, and evaluation purposes in support of the College's mission.

• Manages the College's strategic planning process under the guidance of the Provost and President.
• Oversees the continuous development and implementation of the Institutional Effectiveness Plan by which the College measures performance improvement.
• Assists College leaders' assessment and evaluation activities by providing professional development opportunities and one-on-one mentoring.
• Facilitates development of program and departmental goals, student learning outcomes, and indicators of success that are consistent with institutional goals.
• Guides internal and external data collection and analysis activities to avoid duplication, promote effectiveness, and inform ongoing performance improvement.
• Designs and coordinates research projects that focus on the analysis of institutional data, programs, and effectiveness.
• Designs data collection instruments and assists with conducting periodic surveys of current students, graduates, employers, and community members to assess both college-wide and departmental goals and outcomes.
• Assists with environmental scans and need assessments and makes recommendations regarding the viability of new and existing programs.
• Oversees the production and publication of various College reports such as development of the College's annual report and Fact Book.

Leads and supports accreditation activities of the College.

• Serves as the primary liaison with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).
• Facilitates maintenance of all College and program accreditation files, including reports related to the SACSCOC five-year and decennial review, accreditation committee reports, accreditation manuals, standards and policies, schedules of all visits and correspondence from accrediting offices.
• Aligns program specific accreditation activities with those of the overall College.
• Coordinates common data needed by all accrediting bodies and ensures appropriate personnel are aware of data needed for compliance.
• Assists Program Chairs in preparing and submitting accreditation documents such as annual reports, and substantive change requests.
• Coordinates the preparation of the annual profiles and any other reports requested by SACSCOC.
• Notifies SACSCOC in advance of substantive changes and program developments in accordance with SACSCOC and College policies.
• Serves as the resource person during SACSCOC reviews and helps prepare and coordinate reaffirmation and other on-site visits.

Works with individuals, groups, or committees for the purpose of data collection and analysis.

• Collaborates with others to ensure the assessment and evaluation process is timely, complete, and related to college goals.
• Reviews and/or assists in designing data collection tools appropriate to task.
• Obtains and warehouses data and reports from external sources for benchmarking and seeking best practices.
• Assists individuals, groups, or committees to evaluate the effectiveness of existing or newly created data collection tools and processes used.
• Maintains calendar of data collection activities and reporting deadlines, to ensure timely data collection and reporting.
• Assists with survey and data collection activities for internal and external reports.
• Reviews significance and relevance of data from outcome measures and identifies data trends.

Disseminates summarized and analyzed data to appropriate individual(s) and maintains centralized files.

• Enters data in various report formats for college-wide, department or program distribution.
• Compiles data and college information into documents for publishing.
• Assures research files are complete including actions taken as a result of use of data.
• Serves as a resource for individuals seeking data for institutional improvement purposes.

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