Institutional Researcher - req# 15809

The Office of Institutional Analytics (OIA) is looking for amotivated and detail-oriented candidate to join our team. OIA providesinformation to support university decision making through a variety of analyticactivities, data-gathering tasks, and research projects. OIA serves as aclearinghouse for most official statistical information about the University. Thesuccessful candidate will report to the Director of the Office of InstitutionalAnalytics, and will be responsible for collecting, developing, analyzing and communicating institutional data and other information to constituents throughout the university, to support and enhance informed decision-making, problem solving, strategic planning, policy development, and institutional self-assessment. This position will perform applied research, and design, execute, and evaluate analytical and statistical studies and/or institutional self-assessments. The duties and responsibilities of this position include:

1. Performs data reduction, statistical analysis of data, and interpretation of results; prepares or participates in the preparation and presentation of formal research reports.
2. Prepares institutional responses to internal and/or external queries such as faculty salary surveys, employment statistics, enrollment statistics and projections.
3. Formulates and prepares institutional responses to internal and/or external queries and requests for institutional data and statistics on a wide range of issues.
4. Acquires, manipulates, develops, and maintains longitudinal data sets, verifying accuracy and consistency over time, in the context of evolving requirements regarding reporting institutional facts.
5. Conducts and/or assists on a wide variety of survey research efforts for the unit; participates in survey construction, development of survey instruments, and design of survey protocols and procedures.
6. Designs, executes, analyzes, communicates, and consults on the results of ongoing and one-time analytical studies using appropriate inferential statistics.
7. Works with other institutional committees and staff to coordinate work and provide technical assistance, as assigned.
8. May provide functional direction to other staff on assigned work.
9. Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

A successful candidate for this position will have:

• Ability to gather and analyze statistical data and generate reports.
• Knowledge of SAS, R, SQL, and/or Python to manipulate, summarize, and produce reports from multiple, large, complex data sets.
• Ability to draw conclusions and make recommendations based on research data and findings.
• Experience with data visualization software such as Tableau, PowerBI, or Flourish
• Knowledge of statistical and analytical survey instruments, protocol, and procedures.
• Knowledge of large-scale data systems, definitions, and procedures.
• Ability to plan, create, program, and manage statistical computer databases across multiple hardware and operating system platforms/environments.
• Broad knowledge of database applications such as Oracle.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.

See the Position Description for additional information.

Bachelor's degree; at least 3 years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.

Completed degree(s) from an accredited institution that are above the minimum education requirement may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis.

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Positions posted with a Staff Type of Regular or Term are eligible for the Veteran Preference Program. See the Veteran Preference Program webpage for additional details.

The University of New Mexico is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.