Research Analyst

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All full-time university staff are eligible for VCU’s robust benefits package that includes: comprehensive health benefits, paid annual and holiday leave granted up front, generous tuition benefit, retirement planning and savings options, tax-deferred annuity and cash match programs, employee discounts, well-being resources, abundant opportunities for career development and advancement, and more. Learn more about VCU’s benefits here.

Job Code 33231 Recruitment Pool All Applicants Posting Number req6936 Unit Offc of Strategic Enrollment Mngmnt Department 1904 SEMSS Administration Department Website Link https://semss.vcu.edu/ Location VCU Address 907 Floyd Ave, Richmond, VA 23284 USA Duties & Responsibilities

Position Summary

The Research Analyst is responsible for supporting Strategic Enrollment Management through reporting on admissions, enrollment, student success, and financial aid data, conducting enrollment research, developing and conducting evaluations of programs, and other tasks, as assigned. This position reports to the Director of Enrollment Research and Evaluation within the Division of Strategic Enrollment Management and Student Success.

Core Responsibilities

Coordinate, collect, extract, and analyze enrollment data and trends (75%) -

• Serve as a member of the Enrollment Research team that is responsible for operational reporting, evaluation, and analytics for the division
• Collect, extract, and analyze data from both internal and external data sources, in support of university and division strategic plans
• Ensures data used in research analytics projects meets quality standards for the intended use and usage and distribution complies with established university data security standards
• Query, join, manipulate, and analyze large datasets
• Revise operational reports using SAS
• Respond to ad hoc data requests
• Build and enhance Tableau dashboards
• Collaborate and communicate with the Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support to support institutional enrollment planning
• Coordinate and oversee data-related projects, facilitating development of project plans and ensuring timelines, deliverables, and objectives are met. Collaborate with stakeholders to track progress, address challenges, and maintain documentation to support effective project execution and reporting.
  
  

Evaluations (15%) -

• Conduct and document evaluations of programs that impact or support division goals and metrics.
• Mentor and coach constituents on meanings, utility, opportunities and limitations of data used in analytics projects and information derived from analytics projects.
  
  

Other duties as assigned (10%) -

• Complete other duties as assigned in order to support changes in priorities or unforeseen demands.
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum Hiring Standards

• Master’s degree or an equivalent level of education and training
• Completed Graduate coursework or professional experience in quantitative and qualitative research methods and multivariate statistics
• Experience with statistical software (e.g., SPSS, SAS, R, Mplus, STATA)
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written)
• Ability to interpret data and provide information in an understandable way
• Demonstrated experience working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff, and student environment or commitment to do so as a staff member at VCU
• Ability to organize work and activities of others as they relate to successfully conducting research evaluation, data collection, and information presentation tasks
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Doctorate degree or a current doctoral student
• Experience conducting qualitative and quantitative research and manipulating large datasets using SQL or SAS
• Experience utilizing SAS programming and Tableau
• Experience working in a higher education environment
• Experience assessing higher education program effectiveness and outcomes
  
  

Other Position Details

• This is a fully remote position.
• This posting will close Monday, 2/24/2025 at 7PM
  
  

FLSA Academic Professional Job FTE 100% Exemption Status Exempt Restricted Position No E-Class UF - University Employee FT Job Category University Employee ORP Eligible No Salary Range Up to $68,000 Compensation Type Salaried Target Hire Date 4/7/2025 Contact Information for Candidates

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