Assessment Analytics Specialist

Airweb; City of Syracuse (NY); Remote; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Syracuse University is seeking an Assessment Associate to join the Office of Institutional Effectiveness. You will partner with faculty, staff, and academic leaders to develop meaningful outcomes, sustain program-level assessment, and use results to improve teaching and learning.

The role focuses on building capacity for evidence-based improvement across diverse Schools and Colleges in a collaborative university setting.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in instructional design, development and evaluation or higher education.
• Minimum of three to five (5) years’ experience in higher education is required.
• Experience with quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Experience using AI tools to improve efficiency and quality of work, with an understanding of their responsible and ethical use

Responsibilities

• Serve as a consultant and resource to a set of schools and colleges, supporting faculty-led learning outcomes assessment across academic programs.
• Partner with faculty and program leaders as they specify meaningful outcomes and measures, map curriculum, and sustain manageable assessment and action plans across the University’s assessment cycle.
• Provide constructive feedback that strengthens assessment efforts and facilitate faculty’s use of results to improve teaching and learning.
• Build local capacity by grounding consultation in current best practices and transparent and participatory approaches.
• Manage the University’s Shared Competencies tagging process and lead assessment analysis. Produce compelling dashboards and reports that reveal students’ achievement of the learning outcomes and surface gaps across schools/colleges and populations.
• Clearly communicate quantitative and qualitative findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders to inform curricular and co-curricular improvement.
• Contribute to developing and delivering professional development that deepens engagement in assessment and the Shared Competencies.
• Manage the University’s First Destination Survey of recent graduates in partnership with the Center for Student Excellence and the schools/colleges. Oversee the collection of post-graduate outcomes data, ensure data quality and a strong knowledge rate, and create reports and dashboards that communicate where graduates land and how outcomes vary across schools/colleges and populations.
• Ensure responsible and ethical use of University-approved AI tools to enhance productivity and efficiency.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Faculty development

Survey implementation

Data communication

Time management

Independent work

Policy interpretation

Data security

Ethical use of AI tools

Education

Master’s degree in instructional design or higher education

3–5 years of higher education experience

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Syracuse University is seeking an Assessment Associate to join the Office of Institutional Effectiveness. You will partner with faculty, staff, and academic leaders to develop meaningful outcomes, sustain program-level assessment, and use results to improve teaching and learning.

The role focuses on building capacity for evidence-based improvement across diverse Schools and Colleges in a collaborative university setting.