About Fordham:

Department: Institutional Research

Campus: Rose Hill (RH) - Bronx

Position Summary:

Essential Functions:

• In collaboration with faculty and academic leadership, supports program-level and institutional assessment and planning, using institutional data, national and in-house surveys, qualitative research, and other evidence.
• Collaborates with a team of researchers to provide information, analyses, and interpretative guidance designed to support planning, decision-making, and operations for all divisions of the University, including analyses based on institutional data, survey research, and benchmark data.
• Assists in the timely and accurate completion of routine institutional reporting to the University community, external agencies (e.g., IPEDS, NYSED, US News), and to the general public (consumer information page, Fact Book) as well as regional and professional accreditations.
• Contributes to the quality and integrity of the University's key data assets and the accuracy of reporting.
• Supports the Office's commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion and institutional effectiveness broadly.
• Completes other tasks as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's degree from a regionally accredited institution in educational research, a quantitatively-oriented social science, information science, data analytics, statistics, or other quantitatively oriented discipline.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in student learning assessment, assessment of institutional effectiveness, educational research, or closely related area
• Minimum 2 years of work experience in data analysis, including the construction, evaluation, and management of medium to large data sets
• Proficiency in coding of SPSS (or similar) syntax and Microsoft Office applications
• Familiarity with methods and practices in student learning assessment
• Ability to identify and compute appropriate summary statistics to address a research question.
• Understanding of research design and ability to conduct basic statistical analyses
• Experience with survey design and analysis
• Experience with the management of medium to large data sets
• Excellent communication skills, including data visualization skills
• Familiarity with higher education and student learning assessment or a related field
• Demonstrated ability to work productively with multiple stakeholders to collaboratively address complex data and analysis needs
• Outstanding organizational skills, including the ability to schedule and manage several tasks simultaneously in order to meet deadlines

Preferred Qualifications:

• Doctoral degree from a regionally accredited institution in educational research, a quantitatively-oriented social science, information science, data analytics, statistics, or other quantitatively oriented discipline or equivalent experience in research and assessment
• Demonstrated knowledge of advanced statistical techniques, research methodology, data analysis, interpretation of results, and presentation of results through various methods and tools
• Familiarity with Microsoft PowerBI or other visualization tools

Minimum Salary: $72,000

Maximum Salary: $90,000

About Fordham University

Fordham Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering an exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 16,000 students in its 9 colleges and schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre in the United kingdom.

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