Director of Data Management - Institutional Research and Planning

Job Title:

Director of Data Management - Institutional Research and Planning

Location:

Atlanta, Georgia
Regular/Temporary:
Regular
Full/Part Time:
Full-Time
Job

Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship.

Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security.

Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

The Office of Institutional Research and Planning (IRP) at Georgia Tech is a research and analytics service unit dedicated to supporting the campus community. Our team of institutional research and data analytics professionals combines technical and creative skills to inform institutional strategic decision-making, planning, and research across campus. In addition to institutional reporting and compliance, IRP provides data education, support, and resources to all campus units.

Oversee the creation of data sets, writing documentation and specifications for reports that support the Institutional Research Team. Transition IRP staff to the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). Provide technical guidance regarding data extraction. Produce dashboards, slide decks, studies, and reports that provide useful information to inform key stakeholders. Responsible for setting employee goals, assessing employee performance and providing feedback, and making pay recommendations.

This position will interact on a regular basis with IRP (Institutional Research) directors, EDM (Enterprise Data Management) team, analysts, data service administrators, internal and external customers. This position typically will advise and counsel: IRP and EDM staff and management. This position will supervise: assigned Institutional Research staff.

• Perform advanced and complex analysis of business requirements, write specifications for the requirements, and coordinate the gathering and analysis of functional design requirements.
• Manage a seamless transition to new data structure by working closely with EDM team to develop specifications to interact with new data warehouse.
• Coordinate the development of test cases and detailed test scripts in conjunction with business analysts from both the IRP and EDM teams.
• Assist in the assignment of projects and tasks to staff in a strategic way to maintain the most efficient project process flow possible.
• Create documentation on reports and processes within IRP for consistency in data and reporting.
• Coordinate with management and technical staff to maintain fast paced schedule of projects and maintain up to date knowledge of projects' status at all times.
• Write and conduct relevant research using enterprise and external data sources to discover trends and patterns facing Georgia Tech and higher education.
• Identify data standards and best practices for data management and…