Director of Institutional Strategy and Effectiveness
- Employer
- University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
- Location
- Wisconsin, United States
- Salary
- Salary Commensurate with experience
- Date posted
- Sep 24, 2020
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- Position Type
- Administrative, Academic Affairs, Institutional Research & Planning, Other Academic Affairs
- Employment Level
- Executive
- Employment Type
- Full Time
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Position Information Working Title: Director
of Institutional Strategy and Effectiveness UW System
Title: Policy/Planning Analyst Essential Job
Functions This Director of Institutional Strategy and Effectiveness
reports to the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and
is responsible for providing the data and analyses necessary to
evaluate and achieve the institution's strategic priorities. The
Director oversees the Office of Institutional Strategy and
Effectiveness (OISE) and is responsible for the operational
development of the office, its budget, and the supervision of its
staff. The Director is responsible for providing and interpreting
institutional research and academic-planning support services to
the campus community. In doing so, the Director is expected to
collaborate with numerous offices and divisions across the
institution, including Budget & Finance, Enrollment Services,
the academic colleges, branch campuses, Grants & Research,
Student Success and Engagement, Distance Education, Information
Technology, and other offices engaged in data analysis and
research. The OISE provides support to individual faculty and staff
engaging in research and development projects. In addition, the
Director oversees the University’s curricular and co-curricular
assessment efforts and provides leadership and support for those
areas seeking external accreditation. The Director acts as the
liaison to UW System leadership, particularly the Office of Policy
Analysis and Research (OPAR), with regard to institutional
research. This position includes the following
responsibilities:
- Supervise and provide strategic guidance to OISE staff.
- Develop and assess OISE strategic plan.
- Oversee and assess OISE budget.
- Provide consultation, advice, and staff support to the Chancellor’s Cabinet, the Provost’s Administrative Council, the Funding Allocation Working Group (FAWG), the Data Analytics Working Group (DAWG), and other campus committees, including faculty governance committees and ad hoc committees established to address particular problems or issues.
- Maintain the institutional research database and website.
- Analyze, interpret, and report enrollment and retention trends, including:
- Prepare and distribute weekly enrollment reports and student profiles of each enrolled student.
- Report and analyze retention patterns.
- Maintain historic information on enrollment and retention at UW-Green Bay, within the UW System, and the country.
- Project enrollment trends for future semesters.
- Provide operational and strategic support to the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Services, the academic Deans, and the Associate Vice Chancellor for Graduate Studies.
- Develop, implement, and supervise the institution's assessment plan, including:
- Coordinate an institutional assessment working group.
- Coordinate curricular assessment in collaboration with the academic colleges and graduate studies.
- Provide support to programs developing assessment plans, with particular support provided to those programs seeking external accreditation.
- Provide accreditation issue data to administration, committees, and working groups.
- Provide leadership and support for those areas seeking external accreditation.
- Submit appropriate reports to accrediting bodies.
- Provide standard data used by academic programs for program review purposes, and provide additional analyses for programs upon request.
- Implement and support the Academic Performance Solutions (APS) dashboard, UW-Green Bay's primary decision-support platform.
- Support the evolution of the Student Information System (SIS).
- Provide data and other information for regular campus and UW System reports (e.g., Accountability Reports, Operating Resource Plan, IPEDS, HERI, BCSSE, NSSE, FSSE, etc.).
- Complete surveys from college guide publishers, the NCAA, non-profit organizations, and the federal government, and respond to inquiries from within and beyond UW-Green Bay for information about the University.
- Conduct ad hoc analyses of institutional data.
- Master’s degree in data science, statistics, public policy, social science, higher education, or closely related applicable field at time of application
- Two years of related experience in institutional research directly related to the duties and responsibilities of this position
- Excellent technical skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, SAS, R, SPSS, or similar data analysis packages
- Proficiency with reporting tools used to analyze data housed in a large-scale enterprise resource planning application (such as Oracle’s PeopleSoft, Hyperion Interactive Reporting, OBIEE, or SQL)
- Experience analyzing data using advanced statistical techniques
- Experience maintaining reports in a web environment
- Doctorate in statistics, public policy, social science, higher education, or closely related applicable field
- Experience with computer programming
- Experience administering programs and overseeing budgets
- Experience using Oracle’s PeopleSoft Student Information System
- Experience using EAB’s APS dashboard
- Multilingual competency
- https://www.wisconsin.edu/ohrwd/benefits/download/fasl20.pdf
- Total Compensation Estimator: https://www.wisconsin.edu/ohrwd/benefits/totalcomp/
- Cover letter specifically addressing qualifications for the essential job functions
- Resume
- Names and contact information for three references
- Unofficial transcripts of the highest degree achieved
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