ALAMO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT

JOB DESCRIPTION

OPERATING TITLE: DISTRICT DIRECTOR OF IR, EFFECTIVENESS, and PLANNING

Class Code: 4375

DESCRIPTION OF WORK

General Statement of Duties: Provides vision, innovation, and leadership for the administration, planning, and management of district-wide institutional effectiveness, including research, planning, and evaluation, and confirming progress and addressing Board of Trustees’ system-wide strategic goals.

Reports To: Vice Chancellor for Planning, Performance and Information Systems

Supervises: Upper level managers and support staff

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES*

Directs district-wide student outcomes assessment and evaluation of educational support systems and infrastructures.

Collaborates closely with District’s fiscal affairs to support linkages between planning, evaluation, and budgeting.

Advice Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor on implications of research findings, measurement and evaluation outcomes, strategic planning, and fiscal impact studies

Collaborates with Information Technologies for development of infrastructure and user assessment of data retrieval, tracking, and monitoring system

Provides organizational leadership and direction to multi-institution team of research personnel for standardization of data definitions, calculation methodologies, and reporting mechanisms

Prepares and administer department budget.

Performs other duties as assigned

* Any one position may not include all of the tasks listed, nor do the examples necessarily include all of the tasks performed.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR APPOINTMENT

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Comprehensive knowledge of higher education policies and practices, and organizational and programmatic evaluation and assessment, including higher education state rules, regulations, and policies, preferably in a community college setting to include higher education data infrastructure systems.

Extensive knowledge of project planning and management and the ability to manage a multitude of ongoing processes where accuracy, timeliness, and appropriate analyses and conclusions are essential.

Demonstrated knowledge of strategic planning within a complex organizational structure

Skill in effective leadership, team and consensus building, and diplomacy in a higher education setting, preferably at the executive team level.

Outstanding sense of quantitative and qualitative data analyses, and thorough understanding of interrelated student, fiscal, human resources, and facility data systems for application of performance measurement, preferably at a multi-institution setting.

Ability to formulate data driven conclusions, exercise discretion and sound judgment within context of district-wide decision-making implications.

Ability to develop and nurture collaborative relationships with key stake-holders in multi-institution setting with possible competing interests

Skills in operational budget management and analysis of projected district-wide fiscal impacts resulting from new legislative rules, initiation of educational programmatic changes, or generation of new revenue streams

Excellent oral, written, organization, and managerial skills

EDUCATION:

Master’s degree in Education, Sociology, Psychology, Statistics, Operational Research or related field.

EXPERIENCE:

Eight (8) years related experience in institutional assessment, measurement and evaluation in a position of increasing responsibility and capacity, with six (6) years at the supervisory level.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

No substantial physical requirements.

I certify that this is an accurate statement of the duties and responsibilities of this position and that the position is necessary to carry out the functions for which I am responsible.

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