Research Analyst

Tri-Valley Career Center; Dublin (CA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Las Positas College in Livermore, California, seeks a Research Analyst to perform professional administrative, technical and analytical duties in support of the District’s Institutional Research functions. The role focuses on improving data-informed decision making across the college community.

Under direction, you will design data collection instruments, conduct data collection and analysis using relational databases and SPSS, produce complex tables and reports, gather information from the

Responsibilities

• Design data collection instruments for IR needs.
• Conduct data collection and analysis using relational databases and SPSS.
• Produce complex tables, graphs, and reports for stakeholders.
• Obtain research information from the internet and disseminate findings.
• Coordinate work for part-time staff and assist management in office oversight.

Job description

Las Positas College

Las Positas College provides an inclusive, learning-centered, equity-focused environment that offers educational opportunities and support for completion of students’ transfer, degree, and career-technical goals while promoting lifelong learning. At Las Positas College we know that equity will be achieved by changing the impacts of structural racism, ableism, homophobia, and systematic poverty on student success and access to higher education, achieved through continuous evaluation and improvement of all services. We believe in a high-quality education focused on learning and an inclusive, culturally-relevant environment that meets the diverse needs of all our students and staff.

Las Positas College provides an inclusive, learning-centered, equity-focused environment that offers educational opportunities and support for completion of students’ transfer, degree, and career-technical goals while promoting lifelong learning. At Las Positas College we know that equity will be achieved by changing the impacts of structural racism, ableism, homophobia, and systematic poverty on student success and access to higher education, achieved through continuous evaluation and improvement of all services. We believe in a high-quality education focused on learning and an inclusive, culturally-relevant environment that meets the diverse needs of all our students and staff. Equity is parity in student educational outcomes; it places belonging for students of color and disproportionately impacted students at center focus. Our prized and emerging equity efforts include Puente, Umoja, ConnectUp, Brother 2 Brother, Sister 2 Sister, Black Student Union, Presidential Task Force on Systemic and Institutionalized Racism, the Presidential Speaker Series, Black Education Association, UndocuAlly Taskforce, curriculum reviews and a linguistic justice curriculum. Located in Livermore, Las Positas College is becoming an institution that reflects the diversity in California. We are a learning-centered institution focused on excellence and student success, and are fully committed to supporting all Tri-Valley residents in their quest for education and advancement.

Joining Our College Community

We seek equity-minded applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits diversity brings to an educational community.

We look for applicants who:

• Value and intentionally promote diversity and consciousness of difference
• Demonstrate cultural humility and an ongoing desire to improve cultural competence
• Are dedicated to addressing issues of social justice
• Accept their shared role and responsibility in addressing opportunity and achievement gaps experienced by students
• Have experience and success in closing student equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices, or are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about implementing practices that achieve these goals
• Actively seek to identify, disrupt, and remove institutional and/or systemic barriers that adversely impact historically marginalized communities
• Empower the underrepresented and underserved
• Foster students’ potential to become global citizens and socially responsible leaders
• Believe that all people have the right to an education and work environment free from fear, harassment, or discrimination.

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District is seeking a Research Analyst for Las Positas College in Livermore, California.

Under direction, perform a variety of professional level administrative, technical and analytical duties in support of the District’s and College’s Institutional Research functions; implement the Chabot College Institutional Research (IR) agenda by designing data collection instruments, conducting data collection and analysis, programming in relational database software and SPSS, designing and producing complex tables, graphs, and reports, obtaining research information from the internet, and performing other related research collection, analysis, and dissemination tasks; and assist management and supervisory staff in facilitating the implementation of the IR agenda by overseeing and assigning work to part-time staff and in overseeing office activities in the absence of management/supervisory staff.