Director of Institutional Research
- Employer
- Rhodes College
- Location
- Memphis, Tennessee
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- Administrative Jobs
- Academic Affairs, Research Staff & Technicians, Institutional & Business Affairs, Institutional Research & Planning
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
- Oversee the College's external reporting, internal reporting, and analysis in support of institutional assessment, planning, and decision-making. Prepare institutional responses to internal and/or external queries such as faculty salary surveys, employment statistics, enrollment statistics and projections.
- Address data information and decision support needs of all segments of the campus community; understand currently existing data and its relevance for answering institutional questions; assist stakeholders in developing and refining research questions.
- Advise the President and Senior Leadership Team on data needs for institutional planning and assessment purposes
- Keep apprised of local and national trends and conversations about higher education. Anticipate questions and implications for the Rhodes community based on review of data, information, and research and policy studies.
- Design and conduct quantitative and qualitative data collection through instruments such as surveys, questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups.
- Collect and report required and requested data.
- Utilize applied research methods to analyze data to provide information for decision making, including appropriate interpretation of analysis results.
- Develop dashboards and translate data analysis results in order to visualize data significance through broadly relatable “stories” using data visualization and business intelligence tools.
- Collaborate with various College units on operational, budgetary, and strategic planning
- Serve as a member of SACS Reaffirmation Steering Committee. Support efforts related to institutional assessment and accreditation.
- Use IR data and analysis to facilitate planning, decision making and evaluation.
- Ensure an institution-wide data strategy; serve as Co-Chair of Rhodes College Data Stewardship and Advisory Committee; and ensure that data conforms to standards, is of high quality, and is available when needed
- Monitor compliance issues such as privacy and security and ethical issues such as determining what data and information should be used for various purposes, and whether interpretations are correct and appropriately used.
- Train campus constituents in the use of data, data access tools, and assessment where necessary to promote self-service or self-sufficiency in decision support.
- Collaborate in convening discussions related to information needs and connecting internal and external producers and users of data with one another for purposes of informing decision making.
- Master's degree required in a research-related field, such as statistics, social science, or data analytics, or an equivalent combination of academic degree achievement and professional knowledge.
- Three to five years professional experience higher education research, data management and data analysis.
- Position requires excellent written and oral communication skills, strong presentation skills, as well as demonstrated business analysis, systems data modeling, analytic and consultative, and project management skills.
- Demonstrated knowledge of current higher education issues, assessment and accreditation.
- Demonstrated strong analytical skills and experience with statistical analysis and research; should be an advanced user of one or more statistical analysis tools/software packages (e.g., R, SPSS, SAS, etc.).
- Proficient in business intelligence and data visualization tools and methodologies such as Microsoft PowerBI, Tableau, Qualtrics, Google Charts, etc.
- Proficient in advanced concepts of Microsoft Excel and other Office suite products to increase efficiency/turnaround of data requests.
- Demonstrated ability to translate findings into actionable recommendations and to communicate with a variety of stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams and to collaborate across organizational lines.
- Experience with quantitative and qualitative research techniques.
- Proficient in writing and presenting data-rich reports that are easily understood by decision-makers and other stakeholders.
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Organization
About Rhodes
Founded in 1848, Rhodes College is a private, residential, undergraduate college located in the heart of historic midtown Memphis, Tennessee. Rhodes is national, four-year, private, coeducational, residential college committed to the liberal arts and sciences. We aspire to graduate students with a lifelong passion for learning, compassion for others, and the ability to translate academic study and personal concern into effective leadership and action in their communities and the world.
Commitment to Diversity
A diverse learning community is a necessary element of a liberal arts education, for self-understanding is dependent upon the understanding of others. We, the members of Rhodes College, are committed to fostering a community in which diversity is valued and welcomed. To that end, Rhodes College does not discriminate – and will not tolerate harassment – on the basis of race, gender, color, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national or ethnic origin, military status or any other protected status.
Discover the Rhodes Edge
Rhodes’ rigorous approach to liberal arts and sciences inspires students to discover and cultivate lifelong passions, and to make a difference in the classroom, on campus, in the city of Memphis, and throughout the world. Simply put, our mission is to prepare students for life and career, wherever those journeys take them.
- We value the types of engaging d
ialogue that arises when students and professors work together to investigate questions and problems they care about. Our student-to-faculty ratio is 10:1 and the average class size is 14 which allows us to have these engaging conversations between faculty and students.
- Through 18 academic departments and 13 interdisciplinary programs, Rhodes offers more than 50 majors, interdisciplinary majors, minors, and academic programs.
- Memphis is more than what you know it to be. Yes, we’re home of the blues and barbeque, Graceland, and the Grizzlies, but we’re much more than that.
- Rhodes graduates are perceptive thinkers, creative problem solvers, and lifelong learners, and they have the skills and abilities that connect them to the country's top graduate and professional schools, interesting careers, and fulfilling lives.
- Rhodes students are conducting leading-edge research and creative activity that produces original intellectual or creative contributions to a wide range of fields of study.
- Rhodes College’s commitment to overseas study is most powerfully expressed in the programs that it has created and developed.
Rhodes is profiled in The Princeton Review’s popular college guide, The Best 384 Colleges: 2019 Edition, and ranks No. 10 for Most Accessible Professors and No. 16 for Most Engaged in Community Service. Rhodes is also one of fifty colleges included in both editions of The Princeton Review’s list of “Colleges That Create Futures” and continues to be included in each new edition of Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Schools That Give You the Best Bang for Your Buck. For two years in a row, Rhodes was named America’s #1 Service-Oriented College by Newsweek magazine. In addition, Rhodes regularly garners accolades from U.S. News and World Report, Forbes and Fiske’s Guide to Colleges. Rhodes is also profiled in the prestigious book Colleges That Change Lives.
Rhodes Students
The college’s 2,010 students are a diverse group, representing 45 states (plus D.C.) and 55 countries. They are keenly aware of social responsibility and are involved as volunteers throughout their college years. More than 80% of Rhodes’ students participate in community service.
Rhodes’ students hold impressive academic and extracurricular credentials. The Class of 2024 has a mid-range SAT score of 1250-1400 and a mid-range ACT score of 27-33. 52% of the students of the class of 2024 ranked in the top 10% of their high school class.
Educational Excellence in One of the South’s Most Vibrant Cities
Ask anyone who knows about Rhodes College and you will learn about this rare jewel among the nation's finest liberal arts colleges. Rhodes' students live and learn on a campus cited as one of America's most beautiful. Quietly nestled among 100 acres of wooded charm and Gothic stone buildings in an attractive residential section of Memphis, Rhodes is just minutes from a revitalized downtown where Beale Street (Home of the Blues) meets the majestic Mississippi River.
The campus is within walking distance of the Memphis Zoo and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Memphis is the 15th largest city in the United States and offers a broad variety of entertainment, cultural and recreational opportunities, good restaurants, malls, shops and great hangouts. As the region's medical and business hub, Memphis provides students with many internship and research opportunities, as well as career and service opportunities.
- Website
- https://www.rhodes.edu/employment
- Telephone
- 901-843-3750
- Location
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2000 N Parkway
Memphis
TN
38112
US
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