• Provides a high level of project management oversight and analysis on major university wide initiatives and special projects with high visibility.
• Acts as the bridge between inquiries, data collection, analysis, and strategic decision-making to ensure university leadership, from across Rutgers, has the information they need to make informed decisions that enhance the institution’s performance.
• Provides project management, with a customer service-focused mindset, for OIRDS’ core activity of capturing, extracting, analyzing, and reporting institutional data on faculty, students, staff, and other critical academic needs for leadership’s decision-making purposes and external reporting requirements.
• Assists the Vice President in managing the workflow of Institutional Research projects.
• Performs professional work that requires specialized to general knowledge of the field of institutional research, and possess a solid understanding, use and application of concepts, theories, principles, practices, and terminology of this area of specialization.

Minimum Education and Experience

• Master’s degree in higher education administration, public policy, data science, business administration, applied mathematics, statistics, social science, or in a related scientific field or discipline.
• Five or more years of project management experience in higher education. 

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with faculty, staff and leadership.
• Demonstrated management skills in both technical and interpersonal aspects of the role, including the ability to build, lead, and support cross-functional teams while effectively collaborating with various stakeholders.
• Familiarity with tools and software for project management 

Preferred Qualifications

• Terminal degree and five years of university administrative experience.
• Five years or more experience designing, administering, and analyzing surveys or assessments for institutional effectiveness or accreditation purposes.
• Five years or more experience gathering and analyzing educational data
• Three or more years of experience in management.
• Familiarity with tools and software for data analysis