Posting Date: November 24, 2009
Closing Date: Position Open Until Filled - Application
Review begins January 11, 2010.
Title: Associate Director
Salary Range: $72,500 - $76,400 DOE
FTE: 1.00
Location: The position is located on the University of
Oregon campus in Eugene.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE POSITION
The Associate Director, under the general direction of the Director, plays
a leadership role in identifying, acquiring, managing, and integrating educational
data for OUS and peer institutions for the purposes of centralized reporting,
comprehensive analysis, performance measurement, planning and policy development.
The Associate Director will acts as backup to the Director of Institutional
Research and, in his absence, fulfills all of the responsibilities of managing
the Office of Institutional Research.
DESCRIPTION OF SPECIFIC DUTIES AND PERCENTAGE OF TIME
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EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION REQUIRED
- Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 2 years of experience with higher
education information and data management.
- Ability to define and extract data from relational databases using tools
such as SAS or SPSS and Oracle's SQL*Plus, together with the ability to
read and interpret existing SAS code. Ability to interact with an operating
system, including UNIX, sufficient to execute extraction and data manipulation
programs and to connect and extract data with applications such as Microsoft
Excel or other ODBC-driven applications.
SPECIAL (PREFERRED) QUALIFICATIONS
- Familiarity with a broad array of higher education-related data and the
ability to evaluate its validity and relevance in relation to policy development.
For federal reporting, a thorough knowledge of requirements governing the
collection of student and faculty information along with the ability to
move from complex reporting instructions to consistent and readable reports.
- Skill in research design, data gathering and manipulation, and statistical
aggregation and analysis, including the ability to present information clearly
using appropriate database, spreadsheet, and graphical tools. Critical to
the design process is the ability to anticipate the data consumer's unexpressed
needs and questions.
- An understanding of data collection, validation, storage, and retrieval
techniques using both sequential files and relational databases (especially
Oracle RDBMS) and the ability to handle large data sets efficiently. Facility
in the design and manipulation of large databases and close familiarity
with the structure of individual institutions' student and human resource
information systems.
- Ability to make decisions on routine and special matters, including:
- Management decisions: In the absence of the director, all decisions
required to manage the Office of Institutional Research.
- Information resource management: Evaluate traditional organization
of stored data and computer programs in light of advances in technology;
redesign for improved accessibility, efficiency, and reliability.
- Work flow decisions: Prioritizing tasks. Organizing and scheduling
projects. Remaining flexible in order to maintain scheduled production
while meeting the rapid turnaround required for ad hoc requests.
- Project design: Design projects, estimate availability of resources,
select appropriate applications and analytic tools, transform design
into efficient algorithms, translate into program code.
- Data selection and presentation: Structure reports and studies according
to their probable use and the sophistication of their audience; determine
their content and level of detail accordingly. Balance urgency of a
project with need for care and thoroughness.
NOTE
A criminal background check will be conducted for the candidate chosen for
this position.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
For immediate consideration submit an Oregon University System employment
application, a cover letter highlighting your qualifications, plus a current
résumé. Employment applications can be obtained by contacting
the Office of Human Resources at (541) 346-5832 or from our website http://www.ous.edu/dept/hr/employment.php,
employment opportunities link.
Send application packet to:
Attn: Associate Director Search
c/o Jay Searle
Office of the Chancellor
P.O. Box 3175
Eugene, OR 97403-0175
Fax 541-346-5757 or email: jay_searle@ous.edu
