Senior Analyst for University Assessment

General Duties And Responsibilities

• Data Management & Analysis (40%)
  • Apply statistical and assessment principles to construct representative student samples and evaluate sampling limitations when interpreting assessment results.
  • Clean and manage academic assessment data from multiple sources (e.g., learning management systems, surveys, institutional databases).
  • Evaluate student learning outcomes and institutional performance; collaborate with faculty members, as appropriate.
  • Analyze data and prepare findings using Excel as well as statistical software and techniques.
  • Develop dashboards, visualizations, and reports to communicate findings to academic departments, leadership, and accrediting bodies.
• Assessment & Reporting (40%)
  • Support the design of assessment instruments, including rubrics, tests, and questionnaires.
  • Affiliate with the planning and management of assessments, ensuring data collection, analysis, and reporting processes are well designed, coordinated, and sustainable.
  • Affiliate with university assessment committee work – meeting preparation, presentation materials, deliberations, documentation, analysis, reporting, and follow-up – for various advisory, planning, and oversight committees.
  • Administer assessments, including communicating with appropriate faculty and students and scheduling meetings and test sessions.
  • Prepare and present detailed reports for University personnel and external agencies.
• Project Management (20%)
  • Lead and coordinate assessment-related projects, ensuring professionalism, timely completion, and faculty and staff engagement.
  • Develop project timelines, track progress, and manage documentation for University assessment initiatives.
  • Facilitate workshops and training sessions for faculty and staff on assessment best practices and data literacy.

About The Position

The salary range is $70,000-85,000 commensurate with education and experience. This position does not sponsor applicants for work visas. The University conducts background checks on all new hires before employment. This is a hybrid position, with office presence in Charlottesville, VA required on specific days (currently Tuesday through Thursday) and the option to work remotely up to two days (currently Monday and Friday). This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require traveling some distance to attend meetings, and programs. This is an exempt-level, benefited position.

Reference Checks

References will be completed by UVA’s third-party partner, SkillSurvey, during the final phase of the interview. Five references will be requested, with at least three responses required.