Director of Institutional Research & Business Intelligence

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Directs institutional research taking place within System Administration. Directs the business intelligence functions and provides robust analytical support for the executive director and System administrative offices. Implements and manages ongoing initiatives related to the UT System Dashboard, seekUT, and other major projects as assigned. Conducts advanced quantitative analysis of critical higher education issues , soundly interprets those analyses, and provides clear and straightforward written and/or graphical displays of the findings for a wide variety of audiences.  Gives oversight and mentorship to assistant directors, including identifying professional development opportunities for them and staff. Provides guidance to the academic and health institutions on data governance, predictive analytics, machine learning, and data visualization.

• Manages the research and business intelligence teams to help promote the alignment of process and priorities. Focuses on ongoing professional development of staff, with the goal of increasing and improving the group's capacity to conduct analyses in a timely and accurate manner, as well as build tools to help UT System leadership make decisions. Manages direct reports and work to allocate tasks evenly across the team driving team performance.
• Supports the executive director and UT System executives by providing robust analysis of critical issues and takes on special projects as needed. Conducts research studies, including contributing to the analysis of research questions and writeups of project results. Completes ad hoc data requests.
• Provides oversight on the collection, analysis, and reporting of data for ongoing uses and special requests, with a focus on streamlining requests and reducing the reporting burden on the campuses. Works with assistant directors to ensure established quality control processes are followed consistently and to identify any needed improvements. Oversees the maintenance of the UT System Dashboard and seekUT.
• Represents the executive director at meetings and on projects as assigned.
• Translates available data and analysis into relevant and timely messages for use in internal and external communications. This includes overseeing production of regular and special reports and overseeing the development of new avenues of communication.

• Master's degree or equivalent in a social science discipline, educational research, or a closely related field and seven (7) years of experience in institutional research in higher education, public administration, or equivalent position in the private sector OR Bachelor’s degree in a social science discipline, educational research, or a closely related field and ten (10) years of experience in institutional research in higher education, public administration, or equivalent position in the private sector. 
• Five (5) years of experience conducting analytical and policy studies that support decision making and planning. 
• Experience analyzing data from national and state database higher education systems.

• PhD or equivalent in a social science discipline, educational research, or a closely related field. 
• Ten (10) years of experience in institutional research in higher education or equivalent position in the private sector. 
• Eight (8) years of experience conducting analytical and policy studies that support decision making and planning.
• Established record of publications and presentations.

For more than 140 years, The University of Texas System has improved the lives of Texans — and people all over the world — through education, health care, and research. The System consists of nine academic institutions, four health institutions, and The University of Texas System Administration. The institutions of the UT System employ more than 160,000 faculty, health care professionals, researchers, support staff, and student workers. 

The UT System Administration is primarily based in Austin, Texas. It supports the missions of the System’s thirteen institutions by providing financial, legal, planning, purchasing, government relations, communications, development, and other central services. Serving a growing state, the UT System Administration strives to provide a welcoming, supportive work environment that embraces different perspectives - not only because it enables the organization to be stronger, creative, and thoughtful, but because it is the right thing to do. To that end, UT System Administration embraces state laws on military and former foster children employment preferences.