Research Analyst

Title:

Research Analyst

Division:
Academic Affairs/Vice Provost

Department:
Office of Institutional Research & Institutional Effectiveness

Employment:
Exempt;
Full Time; 1.0 FTE;
Staff; EAM/Grade: TBD by Human Resources

The Research Analyst is the primary technical and analytical staff role for the Office of Institutional Research & Institutional Effectiveness. The incumbent serves as the primary technical coordinator for assigned institutional research, institutional reporting, assessment-support, and compliance-reporting functions; produces and validates institutional reports; develops dashboards, one‑pagers, census and post‑census packages, and recurring data packets; supports required federal, state, accreditation, and other official reporting;

and maintains the documentation, methodology notes, data dictionary, change log, and reporting repository needed to make institutional reporting repeatable, accurate, and dependable over time. The Research Analyst also supports a culture of evidence by helping institutional stakeholders understand what the data mean, what the limits of the data are, and how information should be interpreted for planning and improvement. The position may use institutionally approved AI‑enabled tools to improve workflow efficiency, documentation, summarization, query support, data‑cleaning processes, and draft reporting products while maintaining human review, data privacy, methodological transparency, and responsibility for validated institutional data.

Assistant Provost for Institutional Effectiveness

• Provides ad hoc analysis and decision‑support for Cabinet, deans, chairs, program directors, committees, and accreditation work when requests align with office priorities and governance.
• Supports request intake, triage, tracking, and prioritization for data and reporting requests, ensuring that requests are aligned with office priorities, data‑governance expectations, and available capacity.
• Translates technical findings into plain‑language summaries, interpretation notes, dashboards, one‑pagers, and other visual reporting products that are useful to non‑technical audiences.
• Supports a culture of evidence by helping units understand the meaning, appropriate use, limitations, and planning implications of institutional data.
• Contributes to survey design, administration, reporting, environmental scans, benchmarking, and special studies as assigned.

• Produces and maintains recurring institutional reports and dashboards, including enrollment, census and post‑census reporting, retention, graduation, student success, and other standard university metrics.
• Develops and maintains program review data packets, fact book content, cabinet‑and‑dean‑level one‑pagers, and other standard reporting products that reduce one‑off work and improve consistency.
• Supports assessment and academic program review reporting infrastructure, including WEAVE, assessment archives, program‑review evidence packets, assessment documentation, and related reporting repositories as assigned.
• Coordinates or supports the course/faculty evaluation survey process, including survey setup, data validation, summary reporting, documentation, and communication of results as assigned.
• Supports grant‑performance reporting and other externally funded project reporting by preparing validated data extracts, recurring performance summaries, and methodology documentation as assigned.
• Rebuilds and improves high‑use reports in the institution’s reporting environment so commonly requested information can be produced more accurately, more quickly, and with less reliance on manual workarounds.
• Maintains a shared reporting repository, data dictionary, change log, documentation of systems and routines, and methodology notes so that reports can be understood, checked, and continued over time.
• Conducts data quality review and validation in partnership with units such as the Registrar, Finance, Student Affairs, Academic Affairs, Information Technology, and Student Success.
• Crafts reports and dashboards in PowerBI or similar…