Job Title: INSTITUTIONAL ASSESSMENT COORDINATOR - Savannah State University, Savannah, GA Deadline Date: Open Until Filled Starting Date: Institution: Founded in 1890, Savannah State University is the oldest public historically black college or university (HBCU) in Georgia. Nearly 3500 students [from 13 countries and 36 states] live and learn on a 173-acre campus and may choose from among 23 undergraduate and five graduate programs in three academic schools. For more information, please visit our Web site. Job Duties: Reporting to the Director of Institutional Research, the successful candidate will oversee the ongoing evaluation of organizational effectiveness and planning campus]wide and to ensure the development and use of assessment results for strategic and operational planning to facilitate continuous organizational improvement. The coordinator works under the leadership of the Office of Institutional Research & Planning and provides staff support for University]wide assessment and planning committees to enable research support for planning and decision]making. This is an exceptional opportunity for an individual interested in developing a career in assessment and evaluation.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
1. Maintain and implement planning and assessment calendar of activities
2. Coordinate faculty, staff, and related task groups essential for institutional assessment activities.
3. Coordinate development of annual internal operations audit.
4. Coordinate and maintain annual environmental scan project.
5. Assist in collecting, collating, analyzing, preparing, and disseminating survey research and institutional data and reports in support of on]going assessment & planning activities.
6. Enter assessment results and plans into the universityfs online assessment and planning software; maintain files and documentation related to assessment and planning.
7. Keep current on assessment and planning research and best practices, including regional and professional accrediting agency standards and requirements.
8. Initiate, coordinate, and maintain accountability for institutional assessment, planning, and effectiveness.
9. Advise and support academic assessment and planning teams and initiatives with respect to student learning outcomes (upon request).
10. Other tasks incidental to these activities as necessary or assigned. Qualifications:
Professional Qualifications:
1. Experience with SPSS or comparable statistical analysis application software (SPSS, SAS, or Stata)
2. Experience with Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, & Outlook).
3. Knowledge of relational data bases (e.g.: Oracle).
4. Minimum Masterfs degree in behavioral science, business, education or related field (emphasizing research and analytical methodologies & skills)
5. Excellent skills for facilitating group processes, verbal communication and writing. (Able to translate technical jargon into street language, build consensus among diverse constituents, prepare & edit readable reports).
6. Knowledge or experience with concepts of continuous process improvement, business process mapping, process re]engineering, total quality management, and Lean 6 Sigma principles applied to educational or service organizations is preferred.
7. Prior experience with educational assessment tracking and archiving software (e.g.: TrackDat) is preferred.
Personal Qualities:
1. Effective time manager; able to orchestrate multiple tasks efficiently in light of priorities.
2. Self]starter; task oriented problem solver attentive to details and data anomalies.
3. Superior analytical & organizational skills; understands business purpose of data systems
4. Confident interpersonal skills, sense of humor, sensitive to urgent needs and agendas of multiple constituents.
5. Neither requires nor expects micro]managing from supervisor.
6. Innate curiosity; eager to upgrade and maintain professional skills with cutting edge software.
7. Comfortable working with diverse ethnic and cultural styles. Salary/Benefits: To Apply: Submit a completed Savannah State College application, current resume, official transcript(s), and three letters of reference to:
Assessment Coordinator Search
Savannah State University
Office of Human Resources
Box 20601
Savannah, GA 31404 EEO/AA: |
