Essential Duties

Coordinates and conducts institutional research to provide information for planning, policy formation, decision making, and assessment, collaborates with faculty, staff, and administration in the selection of survey tools; responsible for selecting statistically valid survey populations, tabulating responses, providing descriptive and inferential statistical analysis of results; collaborates with faculty, staff, and administration to identify and collect data for proposed new curriculum programs, scheduling, recruiting, and other strategies; implements and oversees the annual and strategic planning process; provides data for program and service reviews, specialized program accreditation, grant proposals and the SACS accreditation process; leads preparation for and conducts the 5-Year SACSCOC Interim Report/Review and decennial Reaffirmation of Accreditation; ensures the timely submission of all IPEDS reports, perform the duties of IPEDS key holder and completes specific IE related IPEDS reports; monitors NCCCS due dates as related to reporting requirements; serves as an information source for Financial Aid Title III reporting; supervises the coordination of the College’s response to incoming surveys from outside agencies including institutional compliance reports for SACS, and others as required. 

Qualifications

Ability to: Use of a variety of research and statistical methods to manage the collection and dissemination of information for the advancement of the College in support of its mission.  Knowledge of: Principles and practices of PC’s and related software; local, state and national community college issues; program and institutional accreditation processes and criteria; practices, theories and concepts related to collecting, analyzing, interpreting and presenting research information and data; principles, practices and techniques of strategic and operation planning, data analysis methods, computations, and uses in research and institutional assessment.