Join the University of Idaho in Moscow, ID, as the Executive Director of Institutional Effectiveness, leading strategic data utilization to advance institutional priorities. This exciting new role offers relocation assistance for out-of-state candidates and the opportunity to build a team while shaping the future of higher education. As a vital member of the university's leadership, you'll collaborate with diverse stakeholders to drive data-informed decision-making and foster innovation in academia. If you have experience in data literacy, strategic leadership, and designing accessible data tools this may be the role for you!

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Another Source's client, University of Idaho, is recruiting an Executive Director of Institutional Effectiveness to join their team on-campus in Moscow, ID. This is a new role focused on strategic use of data to forward institutional priorities.

What's in it for you:

Located in the beautiful rolling hills of the Palouse, Moscow is a great place to live, work and play! In addition to housing our residential campus, this safe, close-knit community offers amazing restaurants, arts and entertainment, shopping, recreational activities, and breathtaking natural beauty. In fact, Livability.com voted Moscow, Idaho as the number one place to raise a family in the United States.

Working at U of I:

Benefits: https://www.uidaho.edu/human-resources/benefits

Founded to make a difference: https://www.uidaho.edu/about

About the role:

The Executive Director will provide vision, leadership, and direction of institutional effectiveness endeavors at UI to equip colleagues with the data, analyses, and information needed to achieve key institutional goals. Goal areas include enrollment; student success; curricular efficiency; budgeting; assessment and accreditation; federal, state, and other reporting; and other university priorities. To help the institution define key metrics, develop strategies, and gauge progress, the Executive Director will provide strategic leadership, high-caliber collaboration, problem-solving, and creativity. Further, the Executive Director will guide collaborations with a broad range of colleagues, including disciplinary faculty, academic administrators, assessment and accreditation professionals, research support units, human resources professionals, and others. The person in this newly defined role will supervise the creation of intuitive, user-friendly interactive dashboards and other resources for sharing data broadly throughout and beyond the campus community while maintaining requisite protections.

The Executive Director will promote a UI culture of data-informed decision-making by leveraging relevant experience in designing and executing a broad range of quantitative analyses, building a data-literate culture, implementing data democratization, and working with qualitative and mixed-methods studies. For example, the Executive Director will design and implement training to effectively engage colleagues at all levels of data literacy in using institutional data in decision-making and program improvement. The person in this position will draw on prior leadership experience to nurture a collaborative, responsive culture in units supervised, with an emphasis on completing routine but essential tasks while also designing analyses, tools, and approaches needed to achieve university goals in key areas.

To fulfill this charge, the Executive Director will supervise UI's Institutional Research (IR) and Assessment and Accreditation (AA) offices and will report to the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President through the Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives (VPAI). A key focus for this new role will involve building out the IR team and establishing effective collaboration between the IR and AA teams. Working closely with the VPAI and other colleagues, the Executive Director will help UI build cultural norms of using evidence-based practices in education, operations, and resource allocation; assessing these practices' impact; and iteratively improving outcomes.

Job Duty Functions

Building/Maintaining a University Culture of Effective Data Use (20%)

With the University Assessment and Accreditation Committee (UAAC), the Assessment and Accreditation team, VPAI, and others, identify the steps needed to create/maintain norms of engaging with and effectively using data across key institutional priority areas, e.g., improving students' academic and co-curricular outcomes, increasing curricular efficiency, and better utilizing key metrics to inform resource allocation.
• Collaboratively design and implement creative approaches to engaging the campus community to improve data literacy and data-informed decision-making.
• Measure the success of these approaches and use data to continually improve their outcomes.

Collaborating with University Partners on Data Projects (25%)

• Meet regularly with key stakeholders, e.g., research support units, the UAAC, associate deans, chairs/heads, and others to understand key needs, such as intuitive, accessible interactive dashboards integrated into platforms already in use.
• Design and implement creative approaches to meet such needs.
• In collaboration with the VPAI, prioritize requests to best achieve institutional goals.

Providing Strategic Direction for Assessment and Accreditation (25%)

• With the VPAI, define and prioritize goals for the AA team.
• Manage the team effectively to optimize its performance and collaborations with IR and other units, faculty, and staff.
• Advocate for, mentor, and professionally develop the AA team.

Providing Strategic Direction for Institutional Research (25%)

• With the VPAI, define and prioritize goals for the IR team.
• 2. Manage the team effectively to optimize its performance and collaborations with AA and other units, faculty, and staff.
• 3. Advocate for, mentor, and professionally develop the IR team.

Other Duties as Assigned (5%)

• Complete additional projects and tasks as assigned by the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President, via the VPAI.

Salary:

$170K - $200K, depending on experience.

Required experience:

• Master's degree
• 3 years' experience in the following:

• Creating a culture of data literacy, data democratization, and data-informed decision- making as demonstrated in application materials.
• Strategic leadership to forward key institutional goals and effectively balance multiple competing priorities by providing needed data, analyses, and solutions.
• Leadership in designing processes for maximum efficiency in routine reporting as demonstrated in application materials.
• Leading the development of intuitive, accessible, interactive dashboards and other tools that broaden data access and promote effective data use institution wide.
• Designing and executing quantitative studies, as well as knowledge of qualitative and mixed methods study design.
• Creativity and flexibility in meeting stakeholder needs while sustaining integrity of data definitions and other unit priorities as shown in application materials.

The University of Idaho (U of I) is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained faculty and staff. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. In compliance with applicable laws and in furtherance of its commitment to fostering an environment that welcomes and embraces diversity, U of I does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, genetic information or status as any protected veteran or military status in its programs or activities, including employment, admissions and educational programs.

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