Assistant Director of Institutional Research

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Assistant Director of Institutional Research

Office of the Provost

Associate Provost for Academic Administration

The Assistant Director of Institutional Research plays a key role in supporting data‑informed decision‑making across the university. Responsible for overseeing compulsory and mandatory reporting requirements, serves as the IPEDS Keyholder, and proactively provides accurate, timely, and actionable data analyses to internal and external stakeholders. Collaborates across departments to ensure data integrity and accuracy, creates visualizations and dashboards to communicate insights, and applies advanced statistical analyses to support planning, enrollment management, academic program management, retention and student progression initiatives, accreditation needs, and other institutional priorities.

• Coordinates institutional reporting and research‑related workflow in consultation with the Associate Provost. May schedule, assign, or review the work of staff in the Office of Institutional Research, as well as provide staff training and assistance.
• Serves as the IPEDS keyholder, ensuring timely and accurate submission of the suite of IPEDS surveys and other federal, state, and institutional reporting requirements.
• Prepares, completes, documents, archives, and submits required information needed to comply with compulsory and mandatory reports, including, but not limited to accreditors, federal/state agencies, National Student Clearinghouse, college guidebooks, and the Common Data Set.
  • Works with college staff to respond to data and report requests from specialized accreditors, surveys or grant funding agencies.
  • Responds to annual directory requests, including the U.S. News Best Colleges Survey and the Peterson’s Directory.
• Participates in collaborative data governance efforts with campus offices by coordinating activities related to census files and institutional reporting, establishing common data definitions and standards, and developing/maintaining data dictionaries and validation routines to enhance data quality and ensure integrity across systems for accurate, reliable, and reproducible reporting, research, and decision‑making.
• Builds, manages, queries, and maintains longitudinal data sets, such as census files, student/employee information systems, and survey data to support institutional planning and effectiveness.
• Conducts descriptive, inferential, and predictive statistical analyses using tools such as SPSS, R, or similar.
• Designs and executes queries to extract and manipulate data from large‑scale relational databases to create clear and accurate reports as well as compelling visualizations and dashboards using analytic and reporting tools.
• Coordinates the implementation of campus‑wide external (i.e., HERI, NSSE) and internal surveys.
• Provides data analysis to senior administration and various planning bodies/committees of the university as assigned and serves as a trusted resource for faculty, staff, and administrators by helping them understand and interpret institutional and external data.
• Manages, interprets, and uses comparative data about peer and aspirant institutions.
• Develops and maintains the Institutional Effectiveness and Consumer Information websites.
• Actively participates in institutional accreditation processes.
• Clearly communicates and presents findings to both technical and non‑technical audiences, translating complex analyses into meaningful insights that support institutional decision‑making.
• Performs other duties as requested by supervisor.

• Bachelor’s Degree in institutional research, statistics, higher education, social sciences, or a related field.
• Minimum of four years of related professional experience.
• Experience with federal reporting, including completing the suite of IPEDS surveys.
• Experience validating, analyzing and reporting data from student information systems, survey results, and other data sources.

• Master’s degree or higher preferred in program evaluation, education, sociology, psychology, political science, higher education, or related field that…