Data Analyst Manager

Job Overview:
Southern Adventist University is seeking a highly skilled Assessment System Manager to join its team. As a key member of the School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling (SEPC), this role will play a vital part in collecting, analyzing, and presenting data to inform curricular and programmatic decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with faculty to develop or maintain program-specific curricular quality assurance systems.
• Support faculty in identifying assessment data needed to inform quality assurance and accreditation processes.
• Work with faculty to ensure that syllabi reflect activities, assignments, and assessments that will support and measure student attainment of curricular standards reflected in accreditation standards.
• Facilitate collection of assessment data, using commercial platforms or other resources in coordination with eClass and other sources for assessment data.
• Train and support students, faculty, and external stakeholders in their use of the commercial platform or other means used to collect assessment data.
• Analyze and present data as assessment outcomes relative to program objectives and accreditation standards.
• Schedule and chair assessment committee meetings (four times yearly) for faculty review of outcomes assessments. Ensure accurate minutes of assessment committee meetings.
• Maintain records of actions taken in response to outcomes assessment. Support faculty in monitoring the effectiveness of actions taken or changes made.
• In coordination with faculty, implement opportunities for constituent input to the quality assurance process. Such opportunities include candidate exit surveys, alumni and employer surveys, external site supervisor surveys, and other means of ascertaining the observations and perceptions of external constituents.
• Support faculty in drafting and editing self-study reports and other reports as required for accreditation.
• Evaluate and submit such accreditation reports within required timeframes.
• Ensure that accreditation fees are processed within required timeframes.
• Coordinate with faculty to set outcomes and measures in support of the SEPC section of the University Planning and Assessment Report (UPAR). Coordinate faculty reporting of the results of outcome measures. In coordination with the SEPC Dean, identify the highlights of the SEPC UPAR to be shared at the annual UPAR day.
• Coordinate with other SEPC office personnel in event planning and implementation (i.e., Dedication service twice yearly, Fun Day each term, curricular club events, and student recognition events, among others).
• Provide administrative support for the SEPC, including maintaining coverage of scheduled office hours, taking phone calls and responding to walk-in visitors, responding to requests from faculty or students for assistance, reporting needs for building repairs or maintenance, guiding student workers, distributing faculty mail, securing classrooms and offices each evening, and other tasks.
• Complete university-required reports as assigned by the SEPC Dean by the date requested, including but not limited to the completion and submission of the SEPC one-year-out alumni reporting for the Office of Institutional Research and Planning as well as the NC-SARA record of out-of-state placements (education, psychology, and counseling) for the AVP of Academic Administration/Dean of Students.

Requirements:
A Bachelor's degree is required. Experience in accreditation processes and data analysis is desirable. The successful candidate must possess strong analytical skills, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment. Must have an expressed commitment to Jesus Christ, the teachings and mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and be an SDA church member in good and regular standing.