Job Title: INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH ANALYST - John Hopkins Carey Business School

Deadline Date: Open Until Filled

Starting Date: May 1, 2009

Institution: For information on our institution, please visit our Web site.

Job Duties: To support the Carey Business School’s primary institutional research function of capturing, analyzing, and interpreting data on faculty, students, staff and other critical academic, physical and financial information for school leadership decision-making.

Executes Institutional Data Research Projects:
• Supports the decision making of the school’s leadership by independently extracting and statistically analyzing school data, and presenting findings.
• Determines plan of action, establishes time lines, and monitors task completion of Institutional Research projects.
• Updates appropriate staff with project information via written and oral presentations when necessary.
• Answers technical and data related questions from School administrators and staff.
• Draws upon many sources of school and peer information for comparison and evaluation.

Data collection, analysis, and reporting:
• Identifies School sources for information and coordinates reporting efforts and accuracy of data.
• Independently analyzes data from output and is responsible for reports pertaining to demographics, trends, and longitudinal analysis of the School student body and School organization and infrastructure for the administration.
• Writes narrative reports and creates original charts, graphs, and tables utilizing graphics, spreadsheets, and word processing software.
• Drafts Ad hoc reports for various School constituencies to support administrative policy and decision making process.
• Supports standard data reporting requirements and responds to external information and data surveys.

Data Integrity:
• Works with internal and external sources to monitor and maintain data integrity.
• Investigates known and potential data problems in ISIS.
• Knowledge of statistical analysis software, programming languages, database structures, data mining, and MS-Office.
• Knowledge of JHU/SAP and JHU/ISIS preferred.
• Skilled in data exploration and analysis including data mining and calculating statistics using statistical software, programming languages, and databases.
• Skilled in compiling data from a variety of internal and external sources, analyzing data and systems, and presenting findings to both internal and external sources.
• Skilled in defining business flow and translating to system needs.

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university in a related field. Prefer master’s degree in discipline.
• Requires significant work in statistical analysis, and experience in an educational institutional research setting.
• Skilled in managing multiple projects and working independently.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical information to non-technical staff.
• Ability to work effectively with other people; ability to be creative and exercise initiative.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
• Ability to consistently provide accurate data, and maintain confidentiality of sensitive and/or personal information. Requires broad understanding of issues in higher education, research methods, and statistical techniques.
• 3+ years experience applied research experience in an academic or business setting working with statistical analysis software (e.g., SAS, SPSS, SQL), query/report building tools (e.g., Crystal Reports, SQL Reporting Services), information systems, and diverse data sources.

Note: The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.

Salary/Benefits: Please visit our Web site for benefits information.

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EEO/AA: Johns Hopkins University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.