Collin College Hiring for Vice President, Institutional Reasearch at Collin Higher Education Center Full Time

Primary Location:

3452 Spur 399, McKinney, Texas, 75069

We are searching for candidates that meet the required qualifications and experience and are able to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.

Job Summary:

Direct an effective and wide-ranging program of quantitative and qualitative research that supports decision making at all levels of the district and includes activities such as student outcomes and follow-up research, needs assessment, feasibility studies, cost-benefit analysis, policy analysis, survey research, focus groups, etc. Ensure research and evaluation methods are applied appropriately, and that data and reports released from the Institutional Research Office (IRO) are accurate.

Required Qualifications:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Support planning efforts throughout the district with particular emphasis on the strategic and master planning processes including, as requested, development, measurement, analysis, and reporting.
• Supervise, develop, and evaluate a systematic and effective environmental scanning program that identifies and monitors important trends, events, and emerging issues having potential impact for the district. Disseminate data, analysis, and reports based on environmental scanning to support planning and decision making throughout the district.
• Support Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), compliance certification and quality enhancement plan (QEP). Ensure districtwide compliance with SACS standards, reporting, and deadlines.
• Work to ensure districtwide compliance with state and federal laws and standards. Oversee and support the preparation and dissemination of reports required by federal and state governments.
• Serve as the district’s IPEDS Keyholder for federal IPEDS reporting and as the district’s State Reporting Official to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
• Execute special studies for clients within the district as the need arises and communicate research findings for use in decision-making.
• Represent the district, as required, by participating in national, state, and local councils, committees, boards and organizations. Stay abreast of current knowledge, methods, and best practices related to institutional research, planning, evaluation, and data management.
• Attend various workshops, seminars, committee meetings, and organizations; travel to various locations; some overnight stays may be required.
• Work closely with Collin College’s administration, campuses, divisions, programs, and departments to ensure that all IRO staff members have appropriate access to data, hardware, software, programming, technical support, and other resources requisite to the department’s effective and efficient accomplishment of its mission.
• Stay abreast of changes in policies and procedures; maintain knowledge of current trends, events, and emerging issues; and identify information, programs, and resources useful to the IRO and the district.
• Recruit, orient, train, supervise, and evaluate an effective, efficient, and responsive IRO staff.

Supplemental Functions

• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Perform all duties to maintain all standards in accordance with college policies, procedures and Core Values.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of report writing techniques: how to write reports that effectively communicate positions, ideas, and recommendations in a manner that has impact upon the reader
• Knowledge of survey design and analysis techniques: how to design and conduct surveys to obtain expressions of student/employee/citizen thinking and feeling
• Knowledge of various planning techniques for determining the long-range needs of the department and the resources required to meet those needs
• Knowledge of performance appraisal processes: how to evaluate the performance and qualification of the employee in terms of the requirements of the job for which he/she is employed
• Knowledge of delegation techniques: how, when, and what to delegate to subordinates to increase operational effectiveness and foster their development
• Ability to interpret, organize, present, and apply basic and complex research techniques to obtain data from a variety of sources and activities
• Ability to allocate and make efficient use of financial resources
• Ability to screen, hire, and evaluate staff and establish developmental plans
• Ability to plan, organize, schedule, assign, coordinate, and monitor the work of subordinates
• Ability to identify the training and development needed by subordinates to overcome deficiencies in their abilities to accomplish required duties
• Ability to meet deadlines for assigned reports and projects
• Ability to perform all essential functions of the position

Physical Demands, Working Conditions and Physical Effort
Sedentary Work – Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met. Positions in this class typically require talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions. Relatively free from unpleasant environmental conditions or hazards. Office environment. Little physical effort required.

Requirements
Research/analytics-oriented doctorate degree (Ph.D. preferred) from an accredited institution AND a minimum of (2) years of directly related higher education at the senior leadership-level as an executive director or vice president.
NOTE: Experience with the information technology tools used by the Institutional Research Office is highly desirable. This position requires the use of MS Windows on Windows-compatible computers. Major software tools include (listed in alphabetical order): Adobe Creative Suite including Acrobat; Banner; data visualization software platforms; qualitative analytics software platforms such as NVivo; quantitative analytics software platforms such as SPSS or R; Microsoft Office Suite, SQL, survey research professional software platforms such as Snap Surveys or Qualtrics, Web browsers and search engines; Workday.

**This position is Security Sensitive, therefore, candidates will be subject to a criminal background check.**

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job as duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. Collin College reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made by Collin College in its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required & Preferred Qualifications (if applicable):

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of the positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description. Fair Labor Standards Act (exempt/non-exempt) is designated by position. The employer actively supports Americans with Disabilities Act and will consider reasonable accommodations.

***This is a Security Sensitive position. Therefore candidates will be subject to a criminal background check.***

Compensation Type:

Salary

Employment Type:

Full time

Compensation Range:

$152,984.00

to

$175,931.60

For any employment questions, please contact HR at (972) 985-3783 or send an email to: [email protected]

Collin College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable law.