Institutional Researcher (24:145)

at  Northern Lights College

Term of App’t: Monday - Friday, 17.5 hours per week
Start date: Immediately
Location: To be determined
Reporting to: Vice President, Academic & Research

EXPERIENCE NORTHERN BC WITH A CAREER AT NORTHERN LIGHTS COLLEGE!

Northern Lights College (NLC) is located throughout northern British Columbia, an area with vibrant natural resources, history, and culture. NLC’s mission is to enrich the lives, communities, and industry in northern British Columbia through accessible and applied learning. The College offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment where innovation and creativity are welcomed. NLC provides a generous compensation package with health benefits, excellent pension plan, and the opportunity for personal and professional growth.

DESCRIPTION:

The Institutional Researcher is responsible to lead, shape, build, and deliver an institutional research office that is aligned with the vision and direction of the College in an expansion of the programs and of the diversity of students we serve through data-informed planning and decision making. The Institutional Researcher has overall responsibility for the systems operations of the department.
In this role, the successful candidate will provide oversight and leadership that will enable Senior Leadership strategic decision making in planning, development, implementation, evaluation and management of strategic research, and decision support; providing critical support to the College’s ongoing planning processes by reporting key metrics (KPIs) that measure the College’s progress and identify areas of improvement and opportunity. As the Institutional Researcher, they will be responsible for the planning and development of a system that supports strategic initiatives, course planning, performance metric modeling, and decision-making across the College. The Institutional Researcher will assume a leadership role in governing the effective use, and management of institutional research and analytic data. As an effective team builder and mentor, the Institutional Researcher will effectively direct and manage all Institutional Research (IR) office activities and projects to ensure deadlines are met, that the work is evaluated for accuracy and quality of data and will ensure that the College’s needs are effectively met for timely, predictive analytics and information.
The Institutional Researcher facilitates, informs, and provides advice on the development and updating of targets for all faculties and programs including student recruitment targets; and will investigate and report on the impact of services, programs, and initiatives on student retention and success. They will ensure that all Ministry reports, performance measures, space utilization, and the Central Data Warehouse submissions and/or requests for information are submitted as required, by establishing and maintaining a reports management system.
In addition, they are responsible for effective recruitment of qualified IR department staff and establishing the expected standards of work, managing individual/team performance in work assignments, evaluating performance and providing regular and ongoing feedback in support of development, and proactively managing conflict and performance management.

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