Director, Institutional Research (Re-advertised)

Antelope Valley College

Director of Institutional Research (Re-advertised)

Salary : $9,627.30 Monthly

Deadline : 10 / 26 / 2025 11 : 59 PM Pacific

Full job description and OFFICIAL application available ONLY at : http : / / 50.73.55.13 / counter.php?id=309809

DESCRIPTION

Under the direction of the Dean of Institutional Effectiveness, Research, Planning, and Library Services, the Director of Institutional Research serves as a steward of data and information; assists with planning, assessment, and evaluation; helps to identify information needs; facilitates any necessary collection, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of data and information; and fosters the educating of information producers, users, and consumers with the help of Institutional Research Staff to support the college's mission, vision, and strategic direction, an organizational culture that increasingly embraces data-informed decision-making at all levels, and furthers student access, equity, retention, completion rates, and success.

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES

• Portrays a broad institutional perspective that supports the college's mission, vision, and goals.
• Collaborates with college colleagues in support of strategic planning activities, institutional effectiveness and research.
• Provides any data and reports needed for strategic planning processes.
• Develops performance metrics to measure progress on the strategic plan and achievement of the college's mission.
• Responsible for data and information related to the college's planning; outcomes assessment; program reviews; student engagement; accreditation; state and federal reports; as well as any ad hoc requests.
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant national and statewide actions (e.g. accreditation, Education Code, Title 5, programmatic, etc.) that have implications for research and evaluation at the community college and keeps abreast of new developments in technology regarding information, analysis, planning, and reporting systems.
• Maintains databases, manages data, and creates reports designed to support the success of academic programs, institutional reporting requirements, information storage needs, and local demand for research information.
• Participates in the creation and implementation of the college's integrated planning, forecasting and decision support, including student success and achievement, financial, enrollment and productivity analysis.
• Promotes best practices in the field of Institutional Research, especially the effective use of the best available institutional data amongst campus colleagues.
• Acts as a primary college resource for assessment and quality improvement processes.
• Serves as the college resource for developing, collecting, and retaining comprehensive information regarding key performance indicators and academic and student services programs, benchmarking with other programs and institutions, characteristics of the college and its community, and current trends in education.
• Makes recommendations to the Dean of Institutional Effectiveness, Research, Planning, and Library Services and, as needed, other colleagues to help monitor progress on the college mission and support overall institutional effectiveness and improve student access, equity, retention, completion, and success.
• Selects, adapts, and applies appropriate quantitative and qualitative research designs and statistical tools / techniques, surveys, etc. to areas of study to produce relevant and high quality research information for the college, and its academic and student services programs.
• Creates and disseminates Tableau visualizations / dashboards.
• Provides survey support e.g. survey design, administration, analysis, and interpretation of results.
• Develops and maintains positive working relationships with members of the campus community in support of achieving institutional research and effectiveness goals.
• Attends staff and committee meetings as required.
• Provides direction and training for Institutional Research Staff.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE :

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS :

Ph.D. preferred from an accredited college or university in a behavioral or social science or other scientific / analytic field.

OTHER INFORMATION

KNOWLEDGE OF :

ABILITY TO :

WORK DIRECTION, LEAD AND SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES :

Supervises and directs Institutional Research Staff.

PHYSICAL EFFORT :

(The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those employees may need to successfully perform the essential functions of this class. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

Requires the ability to exert some physical effort, such as walking, bending, climbing, standing and light lifting.

Ability to operate office equipment.

Tasks require extended periods sitting and at a keyboard / operating traditional office equipment.

WORK ENVIRONMENT :

Typical office environment; potentially on multiple sites.

The employee is required to travel to locations other than assigned work site and may be required to work evenings and weekends.

Application Process

This position requires the following documents to be attached to your online application in order to be considered :

Your application and any required attachments must be submitted by September 29, 2024

Applications with incomplete information (i.e., statements such as "see resume") or missing documents will not be considered.

VISA

AVC does not sponsor visas.

For a complete listing and details of all open positions and how to apply, select the HR & Employment link on the AVC Web site at https : / / www.schooljobs.com / careers / avc or contact the Human Resources Office at (661) 722-6311; Voice / Relay, (661) 722-6300 x. 6360, 3041 West Avenue K, Lancaster, CA 93536.