Analyst, Institutional Research (Hourly)

austincc; United States; On-site; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

Austin Community College is seeking an Analyst, Institutional Research (Hourly) to support administration in analyzing, interpreting, and reporting data for institutional reporting and other data requests in the financial aid area.

Responsibilities include designing and managing research projects, conducting trend analyses, developing dashboards, and coordinating data from multiple sources to track performance against goals. Strong SQL and reporting skills are valued.

Qualifications

• Designs, conducts, and manages research projects to support planning and reporting.
• Coordinates data from multiple sources to track performance against goals.
• Develops and maintains reports, queries, and dashboards for internal and external use.
• Provides training and support on data collection, analysis, and reporting best practices.
• Uses analytics to inform decisions on student retention, success, and enrollment management.

Responsibilities

• Designs, conducts, and manages research projects; analyzes data to support strategic planning, including trend analysis and program evaluation.
• Coordinates information from multiple data sources and complex reports to track performance metrics.
• Develops and maintains custom programs, queries, reports, and dashboards for reporting to stakeholders.
• Analyzes data to effectively communicate findings via reports, presentations, and dashboards.
• Makes recommendations on strategic planning and continuous improvement based on data.

Skills

Research & analysis

Data querying

Reporting & dashboards

Programming/macros

Data quality

Communication skills

Survey design

Job description

Job Posting Closing Times:

Job postings are removed from advertising at 12:00 A.M. on the closing date e.g., at midnight on the day before the closing date.

Austin Community College employees are required to maintain a domicile in the State of Texas while working for the college and throughout the duration of employment. - AR 4.0300.01

Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement. We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching
• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities
• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.
• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes
• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others
• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:

Analyst, Institutional Research (Hourly)

Job Description Summary:

To support administration in analyzing, interpreting, and reporting data for institutional reporting and other data requests in the financial aid area.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

Designs, conducts, and manages research projects; analyzes data to support strategic planning, including the following: trend analysis, program evaluation, evaluation of college initiatives, decision-making, and government reporting requirements; Coordinates information from multiple data sources and complex reports to track performance metrics and compare performance against established goals. Uses statistical software programming language to obtain and manipulate data from institutional, proprietary, and publicly available databases. Conducts external and internal environmental scanning (e.g., higher education trends, labor market trends, service area population growth, and utilization of college resources). Develops and maintains custom computer programs, queries, reports, and dashboards to support internal and external reporting for the college community, state and federal agencies, and other external stakeholders. Designs and administers institutional surveys such as graduate follow-up student satisfaction, staff and faculty climate, etc. Coordinates ACC's participation in national surveys (e.g., Community College Survey of Student Engagement, Survey of Entering Student Engagement, Noel-Levitz, etc.). Analyzes, interprets, and prepares data to effectively communicate findings to internal and external audiences (e.g., via reports, presentations, dashboards, etc.). Makes recommendations regarding strategic planning, continuous improvement, effective communication to stakeholders, institutional research, and institutional effectiveness. Develops and implements training and technical support for members of the ACC community in strategic planning, data collection, data analysis and literacy, environmental scanning, survey design and administration, research methods, and related topics. Uses analytics to make data-informed predictions and prescribe recommendations or actions relating to student retention, success, and enrollment management.

Knowledge

• Advanced statistical analysis methods and software.
• Survey design, methods, and analysis.
• Application/report development.
• Working knowledge of relational databases.
• Data quality initiatives and measurements.
• Higher education data.
• Governmental and other workforce and census data.
• Labor Market Information data.

Skills

• Possessing a customer-oriented and solutions-focused mindset.
• Conducting research and statistical analysis.
• Querying and extracting data from large databases.
• Writing original programming language code or macros.
• Producing data reports from complex data sets.
• Validating data and ensuring data accuracy.
• Ability to analyze, research, and manipulate data to support or justify a position, policy, or practice.
• Developing surveys and analyzing survey data.
• Using a variety of software to produce reports.
• Using a variety of data sources to respond to college-wide data requests.
• Maintaining an established work schedule.
• Effectively using interpersonal and communication skills, including tact and diplomacy.
• Effectively using organizational and plannin