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Inside Higher Ed · 3 weeks ago

Senior Institutional Research Analyst

Bakersfield, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$92K/yr - $130K/yr

5+ years exp

Inside Higher Ed is seeking a Senior Institutional Research Analyst to support the Kern Community College District. The role involves performing institutional research, evaluation duties, and managing a variety of research and reporting projects to enhance institutional effectiveness and compliance.

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Responsibilities

Perform and lead statistical and technical planning, design, research, and evaluation duties related to institutional projects

Lead the process of evaluating academic and student services programs

Determine and utilize appropriate statistical procedures and sampling techniques to ensure high levels of confidence and reliability in survey analyses and research projects

Oversee and prepare reports for college personnel and state agencies to fulfill compliance regulations and requirements and to assure institutional matriculation effectiveness for appropriate funding

Design, implement, and evaluate survey results, including communication of results to the campus community

Research, identify sources, and prepare and revise reports with accompanying tabular, graphical, and statistical contents, descriptions of analytical methods used and narrative of findings and conclusions

Query institutional databases related to student enrollment projections, follow-up studies and analyses of program enrollment patterns

Conduct qualitative research, such as focus groups and individual interviews

Create, develop, and maintain databases related to student enrollment projections, follow-up studies and analyses of program enrollment patterns

Provide expert support, consultation, and analysis for enrollment management, equity, and student success initiatives; provide requested data and suggest additional data and analyses, as appropriate

Develop and share code for use in data preparation and analysis

Create project and database documentation

Provide guidance and support to institutional research analysts, data coaches, and other personnel on how to access, interpret, and communicate data and research findings

Extract data from a variety of external data sets and data marts such as the CCCCO Data Mart, Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics, CSU Analytics, COCI, Assist.org, etc

Use a variety of software packages for data analysis, data collation, data management, graphics, and word processing (e.g., Tableau, R, SPSS, Cognos, Excel, PowerPoint)

Communicate with appropriate college staff, stakeholders and other community college districts in analysis, compilation, and interpretation of data

Prepares research agendas and calendars; tracks progress of research projects

Respond to research questions as requested; describe findings

Serve on committees and attend meetings as assigned

Qualification

Research methodologyStatistical analysisData visualizationDatabase managementQualitative researchData queryingTechnical report writingEffective public speakingEffective written communicationTeam collaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, or social/educational research

Five years responsible experience involving related research and analysis activities and projects

Standard and advanced statistical procedures related to sampling, correlation analysis, projections and other quantitative measures applied to education, social, and program research and evaluation

Effective public speaking

Effective written communication skills

Social Science Research Methodology design for original data collection and analysis

Use of personal computers and appropriate software packages

Use of statistical, data querying, and data visualization software

Technical report writing

Organization and presentation of narrative and statistical information

Technical aspects of research

Uses, capabilities, characteristics and limitations of computers and related equipment

California Community College initiatives

Survey sampling, design, and research

Qualitative and quantitative data analyses techniques

Inferential and descriptive statistics

Learn, interpret, and apply institutional, state, and federal regulations, legal mandates, policies, rules, and guidelines to a variety of operational procedures

Perform extensive and technical research and evaluation tasks

Design forms and documents for various research purposes and target audiences

Conduct research, collect, compile, assemble, and report a variety of data and information used for analysis of institutional planning issues, decision making, trend monitoring, reports, and publications

Learn new ideas, procedures, processes, and computer software quickly and independently

Perform appropriate statistical analyses and interpret results and findings

Review input and output data to assure accuracy and efficiency

Establish priorities, plan, and organize a variety of work assignments

Interact, participate, and conduct presentations to individuals, college groups, committees, organizations, and others as assigned

Prepare comprehensive statistical and narrative reports

Maintain confidentiality when dealing with sensitive and privileged material and information

Utilize accurate and appropriate statistical procedures and sampling techniques

Create, develop, and maintain computer databases

Create and maintain necessary research documentation, files and records related to research projects

Conduct meetings and interviews necessary for investigation and data collection

Work as a team member with other college research staff

Use tact, patience, and courtesy

Operate a computer and related peripheral equipment

Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing

Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with those contacted in the course of work

Demonstrate clear evidence of sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, staff, and the community