| LaGuardia Community College, located in Long Island City, Queens, educates more than 50,000 New Yorkers annually through degree, certificate and continuing education programs. Our guiding principle, “Dare To Do More”, reflects our belief in the transformative power of education—not just for individuals, but for our community and our country—creating pathways for achievement and safeguarding the middle class. LaGuardia is a national voice on behalf of community colleges, where half of all US college students study. Part of the City University of New York (CUNY), the College reflects the legacy of our namesake, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, the former NYC mayor beloved for his championing the underserved. Since our doors opened in 1971, our programs regularly become national models for pushing boundaries to give people of all backgrounds access to a high quality, affordable college education. We invite you to join us in imagining what our students, our community and our country can become. Visit www.laguardia.edu to learn more. Reporting to the Provost and Senior
Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Director of Institutional Research
will lead an Office of Institutional Research charged with facilitating college
planning, decision making, and policy formation through the collection,
analysis, and presentation of institutional and environmental data. The
Director will play a key role in the college's strategic planning process, a
centerpiece of which is the application of institutional research. The
Director will utilize analytical tools; respond to internal and external
requests for information; track institutional performance against a wide range
of benchmarks; conduct analyses to support college planning, enrollment
management, program review, and assessment; and synthesize and communicate
findings. The Director will supervise a full-time staff of four.
Additionally, the Director will be responsible for the following:
• Conducts research and policy analyses relevant to institutional planning,
policy, and decision-making needs across all divisions of the college.
• Communicates relevant, timely, accurate, and actionable institutional data to
administrators and the college community.
• Prepares digital, written and oral presentations to communicate research
findings to the college community and relevant external constituencies.
• Monitors extent to which research findings are accessed and used by college
constituents so as to ensure broad dissemination and promote data-driven
decision making.
• Works collaboratively with senior management on issues of assessment,
including general institutional effectiveness and measures of student success
and learning.
• Works collaboratively with senior communication staff to create on-going,
media-savvy communication of relevant research findings.
• Assists the institution by providing leadership in identifying and
understanding emerging internal and external issues and significant
environmental changes, constituting both opportunities and challenges to the
college.
• Creates an annual institutional research plan to collect, analyze and
communicate selected and relevant elements of student success for credit and
non-credit students.
• Provides leadership in establishing a comprehensive, institution-wide program
of self-assessment involving program review and outcomes assessment; integrates
program review and outcomes assessment into institutional planning efforts and
into reaccreditation processes and reports.
• Maintains compliance of policies and reporting requirements of external agencies,
such as the U.S. Department of Education, Middle States Commission on Higher
Education and other accreditation bodies.
• Provides data and analyses in response to specific requests and needs of
college offices and departments.
• Maintains an easily accessible data source for information necessary for
grant proposals, summary reports to external funders, and support for faculty
scholarship.
• Provides leadership in the development and maintenance of accessible data and
information which can be used college-wide.
• Provides data and analyses to support the development of college policies and
procedures; may serve on college planning and policy-making committees.
• Administers and analyzes numerous annual nationally-ranked assessment
instruments.
• Prepares annual institutional profile.
• Participates in institutional research professional organizations and keeps
abreast of national, state and local educational issues.
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned. *This search will be open until filled. Review of resumes to begin September 13th, 2017. |
| OTHER QUALIFICATIONS Master’s degree preferred; doctoral
degree desirable. Eight (8) years’ experience or combination of education
above baccalaureate degree and years of experience.
A thorough understanding of current issues in higher education, both
traditional and adult-continuing education, is preferred. Essential
skills include: understanding of research design and methods; ability to manage
the institutional research data systems and other resources; understanding of
quantitative and qualitative research methods and technological tools;
excellent oral, presentation, and written communication skills. The candidate
must have planning, research and policy experience with the ability to synthesize
and clearly communicate findings to various audiences. The ability to work
independently and as part of a team, as well as applied project management
skills are a critical success factor for this position. |
| BENEFITS CUNY's benefits contribute significantly to total compensation, supporting health and wellness, financial well-being, and professional development. We offer a range of health plans, competitive retirement/pension benefits and savings plans, tuition waivers for CUNY graduate study and generous paid time off. Our staff also benefits from the extensive academic, arts, and athletic programs on our campuses and the opportunity to participate in a lively, diverse academic community in one of the greatest cities in the world. |