Associate Director

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Jul 9, 2024, 00:
00 AM

Title :
Associate Director

Salary range low :
101444

Salary range high :
155358

Reports in office :
Office Institutional Research

Reports to :
Director of Data Analytics and Management

Number of staff reports :
2

City :
New Brunswick

State :
NJ

Institution :
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is a leading national research university and the State of New Jersey's preeminent, comprehensive public institution of higher education.
As one of the largest employers in the State of New Jersey, Rutgers University is committed not only to the students and the State that we serve, but also to the faculty and staff who work on our campuses.
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Rutgers holds #64 of 500 employers and is the #1 New Jersey employer on the publication's 2023 list.
Rutgers' commitment to its employees includes maintaining and fostering a safe, diverse, and respectful workplace environment, creating employment opportunities for our nation's military veterans, and ensuring accessibility and accommodation for individuals with disabilities.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking an Associate Director for the Office of Institutional Research.
The Associate Director reports to the Director of Data Analytics and Management (Director) and will be responsible for supervising and institutional research effectiveness team and IR related data analysis projects.
Among the key duties of the position are the following:

• Manages and oversees the data capturing, extraction, reporting, and analysis to support the institutional research data needs of the Office to support university-wide, chancellor, and school operations.
• Plans, coordinates, and implements complex data analyses.
• Works with IR staff to implement analyses.
• Provides data-analytic support on various research projects.
• Conducts predictive and impact studies and developing metrics and benchmarks relating to the student experience and institutional effectiveness.
• Performs professional work that requires specialized to general knowledge of the field of institutional research, institutional effectiveness, and a solid understanding, use, and application of concepts, theories, principles, practices, and terminology of this area of specialization.
• Works with IR staff to organize, analyze and submit AAUDE data and provide related internal analysis.
• Acts as liaison between the Office of the Association of American Universities Data Exchange (AAUDE0 and other agencies to ensure that the university responds to requirements and requests and is responsible for providing accurate and timely data.

• Requires a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics, statistics, social science, or in a related scientific field or discipline.
• A minimum five years of progressively responsible experience in the field of institutional research including data analysis, , report development, data modeling, advanced analytics, using data to inform decision making, and experience in an analytical office, within a higher education or other public sector setting.
  A minimum of three years at a four-year higher education institution.
• Strong statistical skill set, the ability to think strategically, use data from multiple sources and effectively explain insights to a broad set of audiences in written as well as verbal form.
• Must have robust knowledge of data management and data analysis tools, systems, and software; Proficiency in data querying (through GUI or writing and executing code against large relational databases) and cleaning; on the job experience with tools for reporting, advanced statistical analysis and ad hoc requests; strong knowledge of data structures and ability to efficiently manipulate/query data.
• Must have SAS skills (or similar advanced data management and statistical programming skills); experience .