Associate Director for Research, Assessment, and Data Analytics

Associate Director for Research, Assessment, and Data Analytics

About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locations—in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

About the Opportunity:
Associate Director for Research, Assessment, and Data Analytics - In support of university's research mission and goals, provide leadership in the development and deployment of data analytics, assessment and research related to Self-Authored Integrated Learning (SAIL) and other educational innovation initiatives.

If interested and qualified for this position, please email resume to Laura Gaulin at About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locations—in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

About the Opportunity:
Associate Director for Research, Assessment, and Data Analytics - In support of university's research mission and goals, provide leadership in the development and deployment of data analytics, assessment and research related to Self-Authored Integrated Learning (SAIL) and other educational innovation initiatives.

If interested and qualified for this position, please email resume to Laura Gaulin at l.gaulin@northeastern.edu.

Responsibilities:

• Formulate mathematical or simulation models to answer key assessment and research questions with attention to the limitations of data and methodological approaches, possible alternatives, and complex objectives of stakeholders using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and social science statistics.
• Perform validation and testing of statistical and machine-learning models to ensure adequacy and reformulate models as necessary.
• Collaborate with senior managers and decision makers to identify and solve a variety of problems and to clarify management objectives.
• Present the results of mathematical modeling and data analysis to management or other end users.
• Collaborate with others in the organization to ensure successful implementation of chosen problem solutions by serving on cross-university committees to advance the university's data analytics capabilities and to ensure that SAIL and other systems' data is collected and used ethically and transparently.

Qualifications:

• Requirements include a Ph.D. degree or equivalent in Data Science, Data Analytics or the Social or Political Sciences or a closely related field and two years of work experience in the job offered or related field of learning science and pedagogy at the post-secondary level.
• Two years' experience in interpreting data through the lens of learning science theories in a post-secondary area including strategizing and designing programmatic assessments utilizing learning science in post-secondary education environment;
• Two years' experience with statistical analyses related to data collected using social science research methods, including event history analysis, social network analysis, multivariate statistical approaches, scale design, factor analysis and validation;
• Two years' experience with utilizing learning analytics, educational data, data mining, and evidence-centered design to inform assessment processes and data; two years' experience with technical data analytics, including relevant programming languages (R, SQL), data visualization (Tableau, D3.js), machine learning (NLP), and database development, NVivo, SPSS;
• Two years' experience with equitable and ethical data analytics and research design, including issues of privacy, confidentiality and diversity in a post-secondary education environment

Additional Information:
If interested and qualified for this position, please email resume to Laura Gaulin at l.gaulin@northeastern.edu.

Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.



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