Institutional Research Survey Coordinator

Texas Southmost College; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Southmost College seeks an Institutional Research Survey Coordinator to support core institutional research operations. The role involves collecting, analyzing, and reporting data to support the college’s mission, strategic initiatives, and day-to-day operations.

The position requires coordinating with faculty, staff, and administrators, managing surveys, and ensuring timely submissions to state and federal agencies while upholding compliance and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Extracts, verifies, analyzes and summarizes data for internal and external reports.
• Collects, prepares and reports institutional data to government agencies and accrediting bodies.
• Works with large data sets, cleans data, and maintains historical records.
• Coordinates with faculty, staff and administrators to gather data and respond to ad-hoc requests.
• Leads the administration of student course evaluations and survey initiatives.

Job description

Job Summary

The Institutional Research Survey Coordinator supports core institutional research operations. The position collects, analyzes, and reports institutional data to support the College’s mission, strategic initiatives, and day-to-day operations.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Extracts, verifies, analyzes and summarizes data for regularly produced internal and external reports and publications. Collects, prepares and reports institutional data to government agencies, accrediting bodies, ranking organizations, and higher education publications. Adheres to the IR reporting calendar to ensure timely data submissions and project completion. Works with large complex data sets, including exporting/importing from various sources, cleaning data files and maintaining historical records. Assists in developing systems specifications and reporting structures pursuant to the changing reporting requirements of state and federal government agencies, including, but not limited to THECB and IPEDS reporting. Coordinates with faculty, staff and administrators to gather and report data. Maintains project folders and back-up materials on all surveys/ad-hoc requests/reporting. Responds to time critical ad-hoc requests for data and information, both internally and externally. Leads the administration of student course evaluations. Plans, develops and implements timely and relevant surveys for the College community by collecting and analyzing data on areas of strategic interest for the College; providing timely reports of findings to administration and other decision-making groups. Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal and professional networks. Responds independently within scope of responsibility. Ensures compliance with all applicable laws, policies, and procedures. Completes all required training and professional development sessions sponsored through Texas Southmost College ( TSC ). Supports the values of the College: diversity, teaching excellence, student success, innovation, creativity, and service to the College. Attends the workplace regularly, reports to work punctually and follows a work schedule to keep up with the demands of the worksite. Completes duties and responsibilities in compliance with college standards, policies and guidelines. Promotes positive morale and teamwork within the functional unit and provides exceptional customer service to students, faculty and the community. Uses interpersonal skills and makes sound judgments to decide how duties and responsibilities are completed between coworkers, the supervisory chain, faculty, staff, students, and customers. Supports the values and institutional goals as defined in the College’s Strategic Plan. Participates in the process for systematic review and evaluation per the institutional effectiveness model adopted by the College. Working hours may include evenings, holidays or weekends depending on deadline requirements and special events. Performs other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand. The employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.