AVP, Institutional Strategy & Data Analytics

Virginia's Community College System; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

New River Community College in Dublin, Virginia, seeks an Associate Vice President of Institutional Effectiveness and Strategy to lead institutional research, analytics, and strategic planning across the college. The AVP serves as a senior leader reporting to the President and drives data-informed decision making to advance student success and institutional capacity.

The role oversees data governance, predictive analytics, dashboards, and executive reporting, coordinating cross-functional teams

Qualifications

• Master's degree from an accredited college or university.
• Progressively responsible experience in institutional research, analytics, or a closely related function.
• Demonstrated ability to translate institutional priorities into measurable plans.
• Demonstrated ability to work across organizational boundaries and coordinate complex work with multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to extract, manipulate, and analyze institutional data using contemporary practices and tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership for the College's institutional research by developing an agenda aligned with its strategic priorities, student success goals, and institutional needs.
• Establish and manage priorities for a lean institutional effectiveness operation that balances recurring compliance and reporting obligations with strategic initiatives, assessment, continuous improvement, and analytical work.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and complete submissions of required federal, state, system, accreditation, and other external reports.
• Lead the College's data governance process, including institutional data definitions, quality standards, and practices.
• Lead the College's ongoing assessment and continuous improvement process, ensuring that practical evidence is collected and used to evaluate results, identify opportunity for improvement, and guide action.
• Advance the College's capacity to use predictive analytics and forecasting to support institutional priorities and student success.
• Oversee the development of dashboards, executive reports, and other decision-support resources.
• Present data, analysis, and strategic progress information to senior leaders, local advisory boards, state agencies, and local stakeholders.
• Lead the college's annual and long-term planning processes and partner with the President and the executive staff to translate those priorities into goals, milestones, and initiatives.
• Coordinate the College's portfolio of major local and VCCS initiatives, maintaining visibility into timelines, milestones, responsibilities, and progress while leaving day-to-day leadership with designated initiative owners.
• Establish a regular process for reviewing strategic initiative progress with project leaders to identify barriers and coordinate institutional assistance when needed.
• Work evenings/weekends and travel within the region and across the state as needed.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Skills

Institutional research

Analytics

Strategic planning

Data governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Master's degree

Doctorate (preferred)

Tools

IPEDS

SCHEV reporting

SACSCOC reporting

Job description

New River Community College in Dublin, Virginia, seeks an Associate Vice President of Institutional Effectiveness and Strategy to lead institutional research, analytics, and strategic planning across the college. The AVP serves as a senior leader reporting to the President and drives data-informed decision making to advance student success and institutional capacity.

The role oversees data governance, predictive analytics, dashboards, and executive reporting, coordinating cross-functional teams