Associate Director, Institutional Research & Analytics

University of Minnesota; Rochester (MN); On-site; USD 98,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages and benefits

Tuition benefit program

Paid holidays and generous time off

Student-focused mission

Job summary

The University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR) is seeking an Associate Director of Institutional Research and Strategic Analysis to provide strategic analytics and operational leadership. You will oversee complex analyses, predictive modeling, and external reporting while guiding data-driven decisions across campus.

Responsibilities include managing data extraction, governance, dashboards, and cross-team collaborations with a strong emphasis on equity and student success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Social Sciences, or a highly quantitative plus at least six years of relevant institutional research experience in higher education
• Minimum of 5 years of progressive professional experience in data analysis, institutional research, or business intelligence within a higher education setting.

Responsibilities

• Conduct in-depth, complex statistical analyses and diagnostic analytics to support leadership decision-making, institutional planning, and strategic priorities.
• Analyze student progression and success outcomes to identify opportunities to improve retention, persistence, and degree completion while closing equity gaps among student groups
• Build, maintain, and refine advanced predictive models to drive early interventions and boost student retention and graduation outcomes.
• Design, develop, and implement KPI dashboards and performance metrics to track progress toward institutional and unit strategic goals
• Manage a comprehensive project schedule to ensure all recurring, ad hoc, and sudden data requests are executed accurately, efficiently, and on schedule
• Ensure and document standardized business processes, data dictionaries, and workflows to ensure business continuity and analyst cross-training
• Represent UMR on system-wide committees, campus task forces, and workgroups; serve as institutional liaison to system colleagues
• Manage and submit mandatory institutional data to federal, state, and accreditation bodies, ensuring compliance with data governance policies and FERPA
• Act as the primary campus contact for external organizations and publishers to accurately submit institutional data profiles
• Lead the compiling, verification, and publication of annual reporting resources (Common Data Set, Campus Data Book, All Student Profile)
• Oversee the administration and downstream analysis of NSSE and SSI surveys
• Design, write, and optimize complex SQL queries to extract multi-dimensional datasets from the University Data Warehouse and related systems
• Clean, blend, and restructure large datasets using SQL, R, SPSS, Python, or Excel
• Design, publish, and maintain interactive BI dashboards utilizing Tableau/Power BI

Skills

Advanced analytics

SQL

R/Python/SPSS

Tableau/Power BI

FERPA/data governance

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Social Sciences

Tools

PeopleSoft

Slate

Canvas

OBIEE

SQL Developer

Excel

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

The University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR) is seeking an Associate Director of Institutional Research and Strategic Analysis to provide strategic analytics and operational leadership. You will oversee complex analyses, predictive modeling, and external reporting while guiding data-driven decisions across campus.

Responsibilities include managing data extraction, governance, dashboards, and cross-team collaborations with a strong emphasis on equity and student success.