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The University at Albany is searching for an Assessment Analyst with a strong background in educational assessment, survey development, and analysis. Reporting to the Director of Assessment and working collaboratively as a member of Institutional Research, Planning, and Effectiveness (IRPE), the Assessment Analyst supports academic and administrative assessment activities at the university. The incumbent is also responsible for developing and advancing dashboards and visualizations using Business Intelligence and visualization software to communicate data in an intuitive and readily accessible fashion for decision makers across the university.

Primary Responsibilities:

+ Support the development and distribution of feedback provided to departments in response to the annual Student Learning Objective (SLO) reports submitted by each academic department in partial fulfillment of our institutional assessment plan.

+ Participate in shepherding the academic program and administrative review process, including research and analysis pertinent to the review process.

+ Become familiar with the office's major data and information systems and participate in the design and execution of analytic studies, as needed, to support planning and decision-making across the university.

+ Develop and maintain surveys and university survey processes as directed, including supporting faculty, staff, and students' adherence to university protocols and survey policy.

+ Create and respond to ad hoc assessment and reporting requests in support of continuous improvement and accreditation reporting.

+ Develop custom reports and interactive data visualizations using data sets from surveys and other sources and transform data into actionable insights; work with departments to interpret and apply results

+ Evaluate and document results/research and develop reports of external and internal studies related to areas of institutional interest and conduct presentations of findings to faculty and administrative leadership.

Job Requirements:

Minimum Qualifications:

+ Bachelor's degree from a college or university accredited by the US Department of Education or internationally recognized organization.

+ At least one year of professional assessment experience. Formal graduate level coursework in educational assessment and measurement may substitute for experience.

+ Excellent analytic and writing skills.

+ At least one year of experience with dashboards and interactive visualizations using business intelligence tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Oracle Analytics, Qlik, or similar software.

+ Experience with SPSS, 'R', Stata, or other relevant statistical analysis software (can be met with prior coursework in which these tools were used.)

+ Applicants must demonstrate an ability to develop inclusive and equitable relationships within our diverse campus community

+ Applicants must demonstrate an ability to support diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and belonging relative to their role

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Master's degree in a quantitative discipline

+ Three or more years of experience in educational assessment

+ Demonstrated experience designing and producing a variety of dashboards and interactive visualizations using tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Oracle Analytics, Qlik, or similar software.

+ Experience with Oracle BI and data visualization products (OBIEE and OAS)

+ Experience with both Tableau and Power BI

Additional Information:

Professional Rank and Salary Range: SL-3, Assistant for Institutional Research, $65,000-$70,000

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