Executive Director for Institutional Effectiveness

About the role

The Executive Director will supervise UI’s Institutional Research (IR) and Assessment and Accreditation (AA) offices and will report to the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President through the Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives (VPAI).

A key focus for this role will involve strengthening collaboration between the IR and AA teams. Working closely with the VPAI and other colleagues, the Executive Director will help UI use evidence-based practices in education, operations, and resource allocation; assessing these practices’ impact; and iteratively improving outcomes.

Job Duties

• Provide visionary leadership, and high-level direction of institutional effectiveness at UI to equip colleagues with the data, analyses, and information needed to achieve key institutional goals.
• Strategically lead the development of intuitive, accessible, interactive dashboards and other tools that broaden data access and promote effective data use institution wide.
• Design and execute quantitative studies, and knowledge of qualitative and mixed methods study design.
• Promote data-informed decision-making by leveraging relevant experience in designing and executing a broad range of quantitative analyses, building a data-literate, participating in UI’s data governance, implementing data democratization, and working with qualitative and mixed-methods studies.
• Engage colleagues at all levels of data literacy in using institutional data in decision-making and program improvement.
• Lead or co-lead the development of data governance policies; structures and demonstrate knowledge of data definitions, storage, and management; and experience designing, implementing, or applying data ethics policies.
• Draw on prior leadership experience with an emphasis on completing routine but essential tasks while also designing analyses, tools, and approaches needed to achieve university goals in key areas.

Required Qualifications

• Three Years’ Experience In The Following: Creating data literacy, data democratization, and data-informed decision-making as demonstrated in application materials
• Strategic leadership to forward key institutional goals and effectively balance multiple competing priorities by providing needed data, analyses, and solutions
• Leadership in designing processes for maximum efficiency in routine reporting as demonstrated in application materials
• Leading the development of intuitive, accessible, interactive dashboards and other tools that broaden data access and promote effective data use institution wide
• Experience designing and executing quantitative studies, and knowledge of qualitative and mixed methods study design
• Creativity and flexibility in meeting stakeholder needs while sustaining integrity of data definitions and other unit priorities as shown in application materials
• Experience establishing, communicating, and leading others to implement a vision for promoting effective data use across an organization, including a demonstrated ability to effectively engage hesitant, skeptical, and/or inexperienced colleagues in developing data literacy and the capacity to use data effectively to inform decision-making
• Experience establishing unit priorities; motivating direct reports and staff to achieve priorities; and building collaborative, responsive, high-performing teams
• Demonstrated experience engaging faculty, staff, and students in using data effectively to improve academic, curricular efficiency, operational, budgetary, and other outcomes
• Evidence of strong initiative, creativity, and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of federal, state, and other reporting required for institutions of higher education

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D. in statistics, educational measurement, assessment, cognitive science, database management, machine learning, or other relevant discipline
• Demonstrated experience collaborating effectively with assessment, accreditation, research support, and other colleagues, including disciplinary faculty and academic administrators; building, leading, and contributing to effective cross-unit working groups; and tailoring effective communications in formal and informal settings
• Experience leading or co-leading the development of data governance policies; structures and demonstrated knowledge of data definitions, storage, and management; and experience designing, implementing, or applying data ethics policies