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Job Description
Department: Research and Analytical Services (Quantitative)
General Statement of Job
The Institutional Research Analyst collects, processes, manages, and analyzes a variety of quantitative data sets to provide institutional research support to local, state, and federal data requirements and creates data visualizations.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
- Interprets, evaluates, and clarifies research requests to determine potential data sources.
- Creates and maintains databases for research queries from a wide variety of internal and external sources.
- Restructures data files, performs data cleaning operations, and analyzes data using specialized statistical software such as SPSS.
- Interprets the results, provides customized research reports, and effectively communicates the results in a variety of formats.
- Prepares data visualizations to display report findings and performance indicators.
- Prepares and gives presentations to governance committees and groups regarding institutional research, local and state policy issues, enrollment and planning trends and projections, and other research as requested.
- Assists other members of the Research and Analytical Services Department in the establishment of a comprehensive research agenda that supports all areas of the institution.
- Responds to ad hoc requests for research and data analysis.
- Develops and maintains effective working relationships with employees of all divisions throughout the college; functions effectively as a team player.
- Recommends data sources and database design, as well as makes recommendations on all phases of research projects.
- Maintains familiarity with academic assessment and program evaluation.
- Maintains familiarity with the College‘s policies and procedures, as well as state and federal regulations.
- Travels throughout the college district, as needed.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Required Education and Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Social Sciences, Marketing, Education, Business, Economics, Computer Information Systems, or a related field required.
- Experience in quantitative research, statistics, data visualizations, or programming preferred.
- Experience with statistics software, database query language, or data visualization software preferred.
- Experience in post-secondary educational environment preferred.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Demonstrate knowledge with quantitative research methods and working with large data sets.
- Working knowledge of quantitative data analysis and visualization software or programming language, such as SPSS, R, Power BI, Tableau, or SQL.
- Strong technical documentation and writing skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to work with large complex data.
- Ability to prioritize, organize and complete multiple tasks, within stated deadlines.
- Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Strong computer skills with knowledge of Microsoft Office including, but not limited to, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, the Windows environment, and internet research skills.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Ability to work independently as well as a team player within department and with others.
- Demonstrated commitment to achieving the vision and mission of South Texas College.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from administrators, faculty, and staff.
- Ability to work evenings and/or weekends as needed; willing to travel throughout the college district using own means of reliable transportation.
Checks, Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations
- Security Sensitive position: All applicants are subject to a criminal background check under South Texas College policy.
- In addition, subject to federal background check.
- Must have or qualify for a valid Texas driver's license and proof of liability insurance.
Physical Requirements
- Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
- Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
- Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
- Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
- Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.
- Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
- Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
- Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
- Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
- Standing particularly for sustained periods of time.
- Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
- Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
- Mobility to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
Minimum Compensation
Desired Start Date
August 04, 2025
Posting Close Date (No Close Date if Blank)
29 June 2025 11:59pm
