Executive Director, Institutional Effectiveness & Data Strategy

Society for College and University Planning; Moscow (ID); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Idaho is seeking an Executive Director for Institutional Effectiveness to lead IR and AA and partner with the VPAI to strengthen data-informed decision making across the campus.

The role focuses on building intuitive dashboards, expanding data literacy, and guiding strategic reporting to support enrollment, student success, budgeting, and accreditation efforts. Collaboration across units is essential to advance UI's goals.

Qualifications

• Creating data literacy, data democratization, and data-informed decision-making as demonstrated in application materials
• Strategic leadership to forward key institutional goals and effectively balance multiple competing priorities by providing needed data, analyses, and solutions
• Leadership in designing processes for maximum efficiency in routine reporting as demonstrated in application materials
• Leading the development of intuitive, accessible, interactive dashboards and other tools that broaden data access and promote effective data use institution wide
• Experience designing and executing quantitative studies, and knowledge of qualitative and mixed methods study design
• Creativity and flexibility in meeting stakeholder needs while sustaining integrity of data definitions and other unit priorities as shown in application materials

Responsibilities

• The Executive Director will supervise UI’s Institutional Research (IR) and Assessment and Accreditation (AA) offices
• Provide visionary leadership and high-level direction of institutional effectiveness to equip colleagues with data, analyses, and information
• Guide collaborations with faculty, administrators, and staff to define key metrics and improve outcomes
• Promote data-informed decision-making through trainings and data governance practices

Skills

Data literacy

Strategic leadership

Dashboard development

Quantitative & qualitative methods

Data governance

Stakeholder communication

Education

Ph.D. in statistics / educational measurement / assessment / cognitive science / database management / ML

Job description

The University of Idaho is seeking an Executive Director for Institutional Effectiveness to lead IR and AA and partner with the VPAI to strengthen data-informed decision making across the campus.

The role focuses on building intuitive dashboards, expanding data literacy, and guiding strategic reporting to support enrollment, student success, budgeting, and accreditation efforts. Collaboration across units is essential to advance UI's goals.