College Institutional Effectiveness Officer

This position is responsible for the overall leadership, integration, and implementation of strategic initiatives to deliver institutional transformation through data. The position will lead efforts to create and sustain an accountable, planful, and transparent environment for institutional continuous improvement, accreditation, effectiveness, and quality. 

The position leads the identification, collection, analysis, interpretation, dissemination and reporting of accessible and accurate data in support of data-informed decision-making for strategic institutional and academic program planning, administrative and curriculum program review, assessment/evaluation, accreditation, student learning outcomes and other measures of institutional effectiveness.  This position is responsible for applying advanced knowledge of planning principles, institutional research methodologies, complex statistical analyses, survey design and administration, and best practices of outcome assessment to monitor institutional effectiveness and continuous improvement. 

The position reports to the President and advises senior leadership on policy and practices to sustain a data-informed organizational culture in furtherment of the institution’s strategic goals including achievement of equity in educational outcomes by race, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, and gender. The position serves as the College's Accreditation Liaison Officer with the Higher Learning Commission.

Minimum Qualifications 

Master’s degree in social sciences or related field in data analysis from a regionally accredited institution and three (3) years' progressively responsible administrative experience in institutional research, institutional effectiveness or assessment in a higher education environment, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Knowledge and experience with research design and analysis, basic statistical theories and principles, outcomes assessment of student learning, quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, data collection, statistical analysis, predictive analytics, and reporting.

Experience leading institutional planning, program assessment and regional accreditation requirements, guidelines and reporting.

Proficiency with institutional research computer software programs including data statistical analysis (e.g. SAS, SPSS, R, Stata), data programming languages (e.g. MySQL, SQL, Python, C or C++) and data visualization programs (e.g. Tableau, Power BI, Qlink), MS Office programs (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and modern data warehousing and business intelligence platforms.

Fiscal management experience in developing and administering budgets and resource allocation.

Advanced verbal and written communication skills and organizational skills to handle, direct and prioritize multiple and complex assignments and projects, and to effectively collaborate across the college.

Experience in developing, publishing, and maintaining dashboards, analytics, and administering program evaluation

Preferred Qualifications 

Previous work experience at a community college and/or within the Minnesota State System

 Experience in the Higher Learning Commission accreditation process and experience with IPEDS

Project Management experience and credential (CAPM)

Big data management experience

Experience with the development and improvement of student learning outcomes in a community college setting.

Demonstrated knowledge of assessing and advancing racial equity in higher education, especially in course success outcomes and climate assessments.