Senior Data Manager

Senior Data Manager
UCLA Graduate School of Education (GSEIS)

Reporting directly to the Managing Director of the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI), the Senior Data Manager is solely responsible for determining the development and maintenance of the Higher Education Research Institute's research databases. Also determine structure of and programs extensive reporting of survey results. Conceive, program syntax for, and perform advanced data analysis on those datasets. Also contribute towards research design conducted under the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) umbrella at Higher Education Research Institute in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS). Primary responsibilities include: database management, data analysis and reporting, as well as create normative files using appropriate methodological and statistical techniques. Survey projects currently include: the CIRP Freshman Survey that contains 46 years of data on over 13 million college students, the Your First College Year Survey, Diverse Learning Environments Survey, the College Senior Survey, and the triennial Higher Education Research Institute Faculty Survey. Higher Education Research Institute is an interdisciplinary center for research, evaluation, information, policy studies, and research training in postsecondary education. Higher Education Research Institute's research program covers a variety of topics including the outcomes of postsecondary education, leadership development, faculty performance, federal and state policy, and educational equity. The Senior Data Manager will supervise a Programmer Analyst. The incumbent is semi-autonomous, and employee is solely responsible determining and maintaining management of extensive databases, including data integrity and accuracy of statistical analyses, which are provided annually to approximately a thousand colleges and universities throughout the United States.

Qualifications:

• Advanced working knowledge of database management procedures and software tools to facilitate database management. Knowledge of SQL and FileMaker.
• Advanced working knowledge of the creating and maintaining of survey reports that feature numerical and graphical quantitative results.
• Working knowledge of Fortran and VBA or .net to create complex online and offline reports using extensive datasets
• Expert working knowledge of basic and advanced statistical procedures and the corresponding underlying statistical concepts.
• Expert working knowledge of SPSS basic and advanced packages (including, but not limited to, Regression, Missing Data and Complex Samples).
• Working knowledge of SAS, SYSTAT and other statistical analysis programs.
• Working knowledge of web servers (e.g., Apache) and web programming (e.g., html, php, perl, etc.).
• Demonstrated working knowledge of institutions of higher education and their structures and organizations sufficient to cooperatively and collegially work with representatives of the colleges and universities that use CIRP surveys.
• Background and experience in writing or contributing to the writing of educational research reports, proposals, research briefs, presentations, and/or other related documents.
• Ability to create and edit a variety of technical material for completeness, consistency, logic, and organization.
• Demonstrated skill in the development and use of materials for training/development and technical assistance.
• Demonstrated ability to accurately create coding schemes for large longitudinal datasets.
• Ability to interpret quantitative data to report Higher Education Research Institute findings to a variety of external clients and internal researchers.
• Advanced knowledge of survey sampling techniques and estimates of confidence intervals.
• Excellent skills in oral and written English communication including as appropriate, skills in writing sections of research reports, proposals, research briefs, and other documents/products with fluency and precision.
• Ability to make oral group presentations to present survey information and explain the methods and the meaning of the work being performed in a coherent manner.
• Ability and willingness to work directly and collaboratively with multilingual, multiethnic, and/or multiracial and/or other education and non-education professional and lay persons.
• Ability to accept delegated work, validate expectations, problem-solve obstacles, and follow-up to completion and/or report status of delegated tasks.
• Ability and willingness to work as an effective, collegial, contributing member of Higher Education Research Institute staff and, as may be necessary, work independently in successfully accomplishing assigned tasks.
• Ability to work with competing deadlines, meet fixed deadlines, manage multiple assignments, and follow through tasks to completion with attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct training sessions, and/or workshops as needed
• Knowledge of one of the following disciplines is strongly preferred: education, sociology, psychology. Preferred
• Detailed working knowledge of survey development and administration and associated data analysis sufficient to recommend modifications, evaluate quality, and determine ease and practicality of administration.
• Demonstrated ability to efficiently operate Macintosh and Windows-based computers including using the most current versions Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint software.
• Ability to travel to sites in and outside the state to represent Higher Education Research Institute as required or at the request of the supervisor.
• Knowledge of human subjects compliance and Institutional Review Boards (IRB) sufficient to ensure HERI compliance with respect to database management and security practices.
• Master's degree from an accredited university or college or equivalent work experience with a concentration in computer science, database management, information management, management information systems or similar field.
• Ability to effectively hire personnel with required skill sets and supervise staff to schedule workflow to meet fixed deadlines within available budget/resources.

How to apply:
Qualified applicants may apply for this position using the UCLA Career Opportunities website. Go to https://hr.mycareer.ucla.edu and search for requisition #16915. Alternatively, you may copy/paste the link below into your browsers address bar:

hr.mycareer.ucla.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=59279
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