You must submit your CV/resume, cover letter, and list of three (3) professional references, including current contact information. This position will remain open until it is filled; however, priority consideration will be given to applications received prior to May 2, 2024. Salary will be commensurate with education and experience. 

Job Description

Under guidance from the Vice Provost for Institutional Effectiveness and Initiatives, the Director of Institutional Research (IR) at Idaho State University (ISU) leads a team of data scientist(s) and data analyst(s) with the overarching purpose to support a campus-wide data-informed decision-making culture. They provide coordination, support and mentorship in successful completion of internal and external reporting, research and analysis, business intelligence and data management.

Proactively developing and maintaining good relationships with stakeholders across the organization is essential for the Director of Institutional Research. They need to deliver quality solutions that meet their stakeholders' expectations. This requires working independently, collaborating, and engaging within the college's IR team with administrators, faculty, and staff from across the college.

The Director should be a curious, critical thinker with a desire to empower their team to add value to the institution. A successful director can balance a high-level perspective of business problems with the technical details needed to provide solutions. They demonstrate some degree of “business sense,” with the ability to think in terms of the administrators they are assisting while at the same time maintaining a more in-depth understanding of the data and related technical components needed to address the problem. The Director should be an enthusiastic advocate for their team members to do the same.

There may be occasional evening or weekend work to meet reporting deadlines.

This position may be eligible for remote work, however, the successful candidate DOES need to be able to report to a predetermined ISU campus location if needed.

Key Responsibilities

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Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree required from an accredited institution
• Eight years of relevant experience in reporting, research, and analysis
• Project management and/or leadership over a small team
• Working with stakeholders from project scope development to successful completion
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to achieve an objective
• Excellent communication and client management skills
• Ability to work in both team and independent work environments
• Data extraction with SQL
• Data visualization and storytelling best practices
• Research methodology and statistical understanding

 
Preferred Qualifications

• Technical experience with ISU implemented technology
• Querying from relational databases and data warehouses (Oracle, Snowflake) using SQL
• Preparing interactive business intelligence reports and dashboards (Tableau)
• Knowledge of common data structures in Higher Education ERPs (Banner)
• Programming in statistical computing languages (R, Python)
• Experience with various supervised and unsupervised machine-learning techniques

Institution Information

Idaho State University, established in 1901, is a Carnegie-classified doctoral research and teaching institution, with a culture built on trust, compassion, stability, and hope. ISU serves over 12,000 students in Pocatello, Meridian, Twin Falls, and Idaho Falls. Students and faculty at ISU are leading the way in cutting-edge research and innovative solutions. We are proud to offer exceptional academics nestled in the grand, natural beauty of the West. We invite you to apply to be a part of our University community!