St. Petersburg College

POSITION DESCRIPTION

POSITION TITLE: Director, Academic Effectiveness and Assessment

DEPARTMENT: Academic Effectiveness SITE: EPI-CENTER

SALARY SCHEDULE: A&P                          GRADE: D

BASIC FUNCTION: 

Plans, directs, develops, analyzes, reports, and justifies institutional and comparative data elements and outcomes including assessment, forecasting, and graphical analysis. Assists the college in developing program and department level outcomes for continuous review of performance. Assists in identifying areas for potential improvement and facilitates the discussion of possible solutions. Facilitates college projects dealing in the areas of educational outcomes, program evaluation, and assessment.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supervises the General Education Outcomes process through the design, implementation, and analysis of General Education assessments.
• Supervises the program assessment process through the design, implementation, and analysis of end-of-program assessments as well as the development and monitoring of program sequence maps.
• Supervises the program evaluation process through the design, implementation, and analysis of program review reports.
• Supervises the institutional student survey process through the design, implementation, and analysis of various student surveys.
• Supervises the follow-up survey process through the design, implementation, and analysis of the surveys administrated to alumni and their employers.
• Supervises the college-wide course evaluation process, the Student Survey of Instruction.
• Serves as a resource to college leadership in matters related to research, evaluation, assessment, and measurement.
• Conducts ad hoc surveys and analyses of performance and facilitates the outcome assessment process, including reporting of college-wide results.
• Serves as the lead facilitator for the Educational Oversight Committee, whose primary purpose is to review educational outcome data and make strategic recommendations to leadership for improvement. Also coordinates the efforts of the various Educational Oversight working subcommittees.
• Chairs the cross-disciplinary Institutional Effectiveness Team, whose primary purpose is to discuss college processes and share information and best practices for improving the effectiveness of the institution.
• Coordinates review of proposals to conduct research within the college.
• Provides guidance and assistance with SACS and program-specific accreditation and reaccreditation processes.
• Maintains the departmental websites.
• Publishes academic-related Research Briefs.
• Serves on various committees.
• Supervises staff and performs related duties as required.

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS: 

Master’s degree in Higher Education, Educational Research, Educational Leadership, Mathematics, or Statistics with courses in educational research, design, and statistics. 

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: 

Four (4) years experience in educational and/or institutional research, educational program evaluation, or in a position requiring statistical analysis. Experience in higher education research preferred. 

KNOWLEDGE/ABILITIES/SKILL REQUIREMENTS: 

Knowledge of the practices and procedures involved in educational research.  Ability to design, implement, analyze and report on projects dealing with academic effectiveness and assessment.  Proficiency with Excel, SAS, SPSS or other statistical software.  Ability to meet externally and internally imposed deadlines and to complete projects on a timely basis.  Ability to maintain good working relationships and relevant communication with administration, staff, students and the community using written and verbal communication skills.  

Revised: 2/10GC