Institutional Research Analyst — Data Insights & Equity

Airweb; Minnesota; On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Normandale Community College seeks an institutional research professional to design and conduct studies and real-time analytics that forecast student learning, enrollment, retention, completion, and college operations.

You will provide technical guidance on research design, data integration, and visualization, communicating results to colleagues and leadership with a focus on equity and service-oriented culture.

Qualifications

• Two years of current institutional or educational research experience designing research, developing analysis plans, statistically analyzing educational data and communicating data results
• Demonstrated experience in R or other statistical analysis package (e.g., Stata, SAS), including the writing of code to execute analytic commands
• Demonstrated knowledge of large and complex database structures and experience querying such databases
• Knowledge of descriptive and inferential statistical methods and basic predictive models sufficient to select and use procedures appropriate to problems and to interpret results
• Demonstrated experience visualizing and sharing data in Power BI

Responsibilities

• Design and conduct research studies and real-time data analytics integrating new and existing data to generate insights and forecasts about student learning, enrollment, retention, completion, and college operations
• Provide technical advice on research design, data integration, statistical analysis, data visualization, and communication of results
• Advance the college’s strategic goals including equity in educational outcomes and culturally responsive service-oriented culture

Skills

Institutional research experience

R or Stata/SAS

Querying large databases

Descriptive & inferential statistics

Power BI visualization

Education

Master's degree in related field

Three years of statistical analysis experience

Qualitative research familiarity

Minnesota State data systems familiarity

MS Office Suite familiarity

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Workday data retrieval knowledge

Job description

Normandale Community College seeks an institutional research professional to design and conduct studies and real-time analytics that forecast student learning, enrollment, retention, completion, and college operations.

You will provide technical guidance on research design, data integration, and visualization, communicating results to colleagues and leadership with a focus on equity and service-oriented culture.