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Institutional Research Associate

Employer
Georgia State University
Location
Atlanta, GA

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Academic Affairs, Research Staff & Technicians, Institutional & Business Affairs, Institutional Research & Planning
Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution
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Description
The Graduate School and the Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni (CASA) require data management, analyses, and report creation to be provided by the individual in this position. The Research Associate will assume a range of responsibilities around tracking and assessing graduate student and CASA-related outcomes, including reports for grant-funded initiatives. Job duties range from building data sets using the student data warehouse and queries to the National Student Clearing House to conducting analyses on the progressions of current students (graduate and undergraduate) and alumni, performing analyses necessary for populating a nomination platform used to recruit student participation, preparation of reports for the CASA Director and the Dean of the Graduate School, and assistance with dissemination of information through publications and presentations. Products will also include both standard (recurring) analyses that are created every year and ad hoc data requested from the Graduate School and the Center for Advancement of Students and Alumni (CASA)
 The Research Associate will work with the Office of Institutional Research but will not report to that unit.


Examples of duties:

  • Create, implement, and analyze surveys to collect data. 
  • Consult on the development of research methods to assess program efficacy in both the CASA and the Graduate School, including identification of appropriate data sources, data points, data management, and data analytics to answer research questions.  Facilitate the use of data to inform decision-making for members of the university community. 
  • Gather and clean data, conduct analyses, and use communication platforms each semester to maintain the Early Identification System that invites early-career undergraduate students to join CASA programming.
  • Use Structured Query Language (SQL) to develop data sets from multiple data sources in support of grant applications and funded projects.
  • Perform data reporting, statistical analyses, and data visualization with various software tools (i.e., Access, Argos, PL/SQL, SQL, Python or R, Tableau).  Create reports based on these analyses for program leaders, as well as campus-wide stakeholders. 
  • Create and evaluate standard data tables for the Graduate School (student recruitment, retention and student funding, etc.). 
  • Contribute to information dissemination through publications and presentations to local, regional, national, and/or international audiences.
  • Other related duties, as assigned. 
    • A quality candidate will possess the following:

  • Knowledge of data processing and reporting principles and practices.
  • Knowledge of integrated information systems and event driven programming.
  • Effective time management, customer service, analytical and organizational skills.
  • Effective verbal and written communication with external and internal customers, including accessible data visualization.
  • Ability to advise managers in the effective utilization of data from analyses.
  • Ability to generate, review, update and edit analyses and data extracts.
  • Ability to test, document and perform quality assurance on analyses and reports.
  • Knowledge of ethical use of data.
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    Qualifications
    Bachelor's degree and three years of related experience; or a combination of education and related experience.

    College/Business Unit
    02/10/21, 11:59:00 PM

    College/Business Unit: Provost & VP Academic Affairs
    Location: Atlanta Campus
    Job Posting: 01/13/21, 11:48:11 AM

    Organization

    Founded in 1913 in Atlanta, Georgia State University is the second-largest and one of four research institutions in the University System of Georgia. The University serves one-fourth of the graduate students in the university system; it is within a one-hour commute of more than one-third of the state’s population. Approximately 80 percent of all Georgia State alumni live and work in Georgia.georgia_state_university1.jpg

    Georgia State’s main campus is located on 34 acres in downtown Atlanta. University centers in Alpharetta, Brookhaven, Buckhead and Henry County offer students convenient suburban locations for graduate courses in business and education.

    More than 50,000 students annually attend Georgia State University. While 90 percent of the students are from Georgia, students also come from all 50 states and 160 countries. More than 1,400 international students attend Georgia State and graduate students comprise 31 percent of the student population.

    georgia_state_university2.jpgThe University offers more than 52 degree programs in more than 250 fields of study – from public policy and African-American studies to biology and health sciences. Degrees are offered at the bachelor’s, master’s, specialist and doctoral levels through six units: the College of Arts and Sciences, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, College of Education, College of Health and Human Sciences, College of Law and Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. In addition to the numerous degree programs, Georgia State offers full- and part-time programs and day, evening and weekend classes.

    Students have many choices in extracurricular activities including more than 22 fraternities and sororities; and some 250 chartered student groups, including 60 degree-related student groups, seven religious, 24 law-oriented and 22 multicultural/international groups; and 10 honor societies. There is also an active student government association which includes the student senate and the judicial board.

    The Georgia State Panthers are members of the Colonial Athletic Association and compete in 16 NCAA Division I intercollegiate men’s and women’s sports, including basketball, baseball, softball, golf, tennis, track and volleyball. The university announced in April 2008 that is will begin Division I-AA football in 2010.

    The university’s innovative Touch the Earth program brings outdoor recreation ranging from backpacking, rock climbing, sailing, kayaking, rafting and water-skiing to out-of-state snow-skiing and snorkeling trips. And WRAS, Georgia State’s popular 100,000-watt radio voice, is the most powerful student-run radio station in the United States.

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