Data-Driven Unit Assessment Lead

University of Texas; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Texas at Austin is seeking a Unit Assessment Manager to oversee operational functions for outcomes assessment, continuous improvement, and institutional effectiveness across service, support, and administrative units. You will lead cross-team collaboration, manage system workflows, and provide data-driven insights to strengthen accreditation readiness.

The role emphasizes coordinating the full cycle of assessment, developing measurable outcomes, and guiding evidence-based

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in higher education administration, learning sciences, curriculum and instruction, assessment, program evaluation, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience in service, support, or administrative unit assessment, institutional effectiveness, organizational evaluation, or program evaluation.
• Experience coordinating complex institutional processes and managing qualitative and quantitative data.
• Strong analytical and writing skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to train, consult, and communicate effectively with staff, unit leaders, and administrators.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a large, complex academic environment.

Responsibilities

• Unit Assessment Planning and Outcomes Alignment: Coordinate institution-wide workflows for service, support, and administrative unit outcomes development, alignment, assessment, and revision.
• Lead unit assessment planning initiatives that support SACSCOC compliance, the multi-year unit assessment cycle, and other institutional-effectiveness priorities.
• Manage timelines, templates, process maps, and institutional repositories for unit assessment documentation.
• Conduct quality reviews of unit outcomes, assessment plans, and reports to ensure quality, continuous improvement, clarity, measurability, alignment, and compliance with applicable accreditation expectations and obligations.
• Support service, support, and administrative units in aligning outcomes and assessment methods with unit missions, institutional priorities, and service improvement goals.
• Assessment Operations and Continuous Improvement: Coordinate and support the full cycle of outcomes assessment for service, support, and administrative units, including planning, data collection, analysis, and documentation.
• Oversee unit assessment workflows in the institutional assessment management system, including training, user support, data integrity, and reporting functionality, in coordination with other assessment managers and technology partners.
• Provide guidance on assessment methods, data collection strategies, rubric design, and evidence-based continuous improvement efforts for staff, unit leaders, and administrators.
• Produce summaries, dashboards, and analytic reports that distill assessment findings for internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure that unit assessment documentation aligns with applicable federal, state, and SACSCOC expectations and standards related to service, support, and administrative unit outcomes and institutional effectiveness.
• Document the use of results for continuous improvement, consistent with SACSCOC expectations for unit assessment and institutional effectiveness; provide individualized feedback and follow up on unit improvement actions.
• Data, Evidence, and Analytics Infrastructure: Manage technical platforms and workflows for assessment-related data collection, reporting, visualization, and archival storage.
• Collaborate with Institutional Reporting, Data to Insights, and other partners to maintain consistency between institutional data definitions, coding, and unit assessment documentation.
• Develop crosswalks, evidence bundles, and structured analytic reports that support accreditation submissions, unit review, and institutional planning.
• When appropriate, integrate service and operational data, information visualization, and data-science tools into unit assessment processes.
• Staff and Unit Training and Capacity Building: Design and deliver workshops, webinars, seminars, consultations, and training curricula on unit outcomes and assessment; mission and outcomes alignment; data interpretation and use of evidence; continuous improvement methods; and service quality and institutional effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain resource guides, templates, exemplars, online modules, and self-service tools that support unit-level capacity.
• Serve as an operational liaison to service, support, and administrative units engaged in assessment work.
• Scholarship, External Visibility, and Special Projects: Contribute, as time permits, to research articles, white papers, and conference presentations that highlight UT Austin's unit assessment and institutional-effectiveness work.
• Support grant-writing and external-funding efforts, as time permits, related to unit assessment, service improvement, or institutional effectiveness.
• Participate in Director of Accreditation and Assessment-led strategic initiatives related to institutional effectiveness, accreditation readiness, policy alignment, and institutional improvement.

Skills

Experience in assessment

Analytical writing skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Data coordination

Effective training/communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in higher ed

Tools

Watermark

Tableau

Power BI

R

SPSS

Job description

The University of Texas at Austin is seeking a Unit Assessment Manager to oversee operational functions for outcomes assessment, continuous improvement, and institutional effectiveness across service, support, and administrative units. You will lead cross-team collaboration, manage system workflows, and provide data-driven insights to strengthen accreditation readiness.

The role emphasizes coordinating the full cycle of assessment, developing measurable outcomes, and guiding evidence-based