Senior Research Analyst (Assessment)

$78,039 - $111,540/Yr

Prince George's Community College - Largo, MD

Part-time - Mid Level

Largo, MD

Educational Services

About the position

The Senior Research Analyst (Assessment) plays a crucial role in enhancing the assessment operations within the Research, Assessment, and Effectiveness office. This position involves advising college administrators and staff on institutional assessment and effectiveness, collaborating with stakeholders to identify assessment needs, and developing data collection tools and analyses. The analyst will also manage College-wide surveys and present findings to various audiences, ensuring that the college's strategic goals are met through effective data-driven decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Oversee large-scale data collection projects requiring collaboration with deans and chairs, training of survey administrators, and coordination across multiple locations.
• Lead collaborative, multi-stage, mixed-methods research to assist with the assessment of the college's strategic plan.
• Design and implement longitudinal research on student progression, completion, and college initiatives and programs.
• Analyze results, including frequencies, cross tabulations, means tables, multivariate analysis, and tests of statistical significance.
• Present oral and written reports tailored to different audiences, and collaborate with other staff to meet project goals and deadlines.
• Prepare visual displays of data.
• Manage the survey resource center.
• Participate as a member of the institutional effectiveness (IE) committee.
• Support faculty with the review of assessment materials on the teaching and learning assessment committee (TLAC).
• Guide and mentor research analysts on internal and external resources in the areas of institutional research, institutional effectiveness, and accreditation.
• Train research analysts on expectations for data integrity and the use of data analysis software, programming tools and/or the college's assessment management system.
• Provide feedback to research analysts on their research, reports, and presentations.
• Use the college's data, business intelligence, and reporting systems to extract data for ongoing projects.
• Train and advise administrators, faculty, and staff on institutional effectiveness and assessment.
• Develop training materials on goal creation, assessment design, and data interpretation and usage.
• Comply with all required college mandated training within the prescribed timelines.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Master's degree in social science or related field.
• Three years of experience in learning outcomes assessment, institutional effectiveness, and/or program evaluation at a post-secondary institution.
• Two years of supervisory experience.
• Demonstrated experience using digital platforms to support integrated planning.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of assessment and institutional effectiveness theory and practice in higher education.
• Knowledge of the accreditation process.
• Demonstrated effectiveness conducting professional development activities.
• Demonstrated experience with coordinating large scale projects with multiple partners.
• Demonstrated leadership skills to coordinate group work in a higher education setting.
• Proven ability to advise areas and units on the creation of goals and objectives, the selection of metrics, and the use and interpretation of data.
• Ability and willingness to provide training, guidance, and mentorship to colleagues.
• Knowledge of descriptive and inferential statistics.
• Demonstrated knowledge conducting quantitative, qualitative, and/or mixed methods research methodologies.
• Demonstrated knowledge using software packages for data analysis, e.g., SPSS, SAS, STATA, NVivo, etc.
• Ability to teach in higher education.
• Demonstrated knowledge in developing and coordinating large-scale surveys.

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Retirement plans
• Health and welfare coverage