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Budget Title: Associate Vice President (*Management Confidential)

Salary: Commensurate with experience

Binghamton University places immense value in the use of institutional data in support of the University's short and long-term decision-making regarding policy, strategic planning, and resource allocation.

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the Associate Vice President for Institutional Research will have a highly visible role within the University's analytics community and be instrumental in leveraging Binghamton's data assets to drive institutional success and operational efficiency. The AVP will formulate university policy, design and execute data and analytics strategies, oversee governance practices, and build relationships across academic and administrative units to foster a collaborative, data-informed culture that directly supports strategic planning, resource allocation and program and student success.

Responsibilities include establishing data and analytics as a core institutional asset, defining the vision for data strategy, and implementing effective data and analytics models and processes to support strategic decision-making. The AVP will champion data literacy across the university, lead data governance efforts to ensure the integrity of data assets and provide innovative insights that align institutional goals with actionable outcomes.

The AVP will manage and be responsible for working with stakeholders across the University on institutional research and analytics consulting projects that leverage existing data resources, encourage the integration of multiple data sets across traditional organizational boundaries, and involve rigorous and robust statistical methods.

The AVP is an expert in research design, statistical analysis, and data visualization, with a proven ability to communicate complex findings to various audiences. They will have creative problem-solving skills, be forward thinking, and proactive. They will work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously. They should have the ability to work collaboratively with people from different backgrounds and with those who may have different perspectives.

Outlined below are the primary focus areas for this position. However, the expectation is that as OIRA's portfolio expands, the responsibilities of the AVP will evolve.

Data Governance and Integrity:

+ Participate and lead in the ongoing development and implementation of Binghamton's data governance framework. Work closely with a data governance team to collaborate on issues regarding data definitions for reporting.

+ Ensure data integrity and develop internal processes to facilitate accurate reporting and comparability across multiple systems and data sources and compliance with federal, state, and other external standards and institutional policies.

Analytics Strategy Development & Project Execution:

+ Develop and lead an analytics portfolio strategy and technical infrastructure to support effective communication.

+ Lead discovery, design and implementation with stakeholders on new analytics consulting projects.

+ Curate and manage the portfolio of analytics projects, ensuring projects remain within scope and within established timelines.

+ Design, conduct, analyze, and present comprehensive institutional research studies using advanced statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and data visualization using tools such as Python, R, and SAS.

Data Literacy & Community Building:

+ Serve as a leader for the University on analytics best practices and methodologies, and share these practices via university-wide collaboration.

+ Support analytics and institutional research community-building efforts across the University.

+ Develop working relationships with other units including, but not limited to, Business Office, Enrollment Management, President, Provost, Academic Dean Offices.

University Reporting & Compliance Leadership:

+ Oversee the reporting function of OIR to ensure the office complies and responds to internal and external requests for university data, including ad hoc requests, in an efficient and timely manner.

+ Oversee the University's compliance reporting to external entities, including federal, State, IPEDS, US News, NCAA, etc. ensuring that data submissions meet all regulatory and ethical standards.

+ Collaborate with University partners to identify and refine data collection processes and tools to support the OIR reporting team.

+ Take initiative to find effective ways for sharing official statistics and data with the university community and maintain the OIR website dashboard which provides information about enrollment, retention, graduation rates, faculty and staff statistics, etc.

+ Support the Academic Program Review by providing units with information required for the review process and participating in the review process.

+ Maintain a reporting calendar and meet all official reporting requirements by the deadlines. Prioritize internal data requests and develop strategies for meeting such requests.

Management & Supervision:

+ Provide effective leadership and management of OIR staff, set goals and performance metrics, provide timely feedback and performance coaching, and ensure appropriate levels of staffing to meet realistic expectations of the university community.

+ Provide leadership on emerging institutional analytics trends and technology.

Represent Binghamton to External Organizations:

+ Serve as a key institutional representative to external organizations, including federal and state agencies and higher education organizations.

+ Actively participate in professional organizations such as the Association of Institutional Research and other relevant national and regional professional organizations to stay informed about emerging trends and best practices in institutional research and data analytics.

This is a Management/ Confidential appointment that serves at the pleasure of the President and is not represented by any union.

Job Requirements:

+ Master's degree in quantitative discipline such as social sciences, mathematics, economics, data science, education, business, statistics or a related field

+ Minimum of seven years of progressively responsible leadership experience within institutional research or a related field in higher education, supervising teams and driving key research initiatives or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience

+ Proven experience with complex relational databases and advanced data analytics techniques such as statistical analysis, data mining, predictive modeling, and survey design

+ Expertise with statistical software and query tools

+ Experience with storytelling through data visualization software (e.g. PowerBI) to create comprehensive and actionable dashboards

+ Understanding of enterprise systems

+ Experience with data governance programs, ensuring data integrity, accuracy, and compliance with institutional policies and regulatory standards

+ Excellent communication skills including the ability to clearly translate and present complex data findings into actionable items to non-technical stakeholders both internally and externally and at all levels of the organization

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position

Additional Information:

Offers of employment may be contingent upon successful completion of a pre-employment background check and verification of degree(s) and credentials.

Binghamton University is a tobacco-free campus.

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