Senior Director, Research and Data Science

Broward College-posted 2 months ago
$77,838 - $89,513/Yr
Full-time • Senior
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This position works with senior level administrators and faculty to enhance the college's Institutional Research, Advanced Analytics and Data Science capacity and capabilities. Develops, advocates for, and promulgates college-wide self-service business intelligence, self-service reporting, and self-service analytics. Leads adoption and assimilation of advanced analytics in areas such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Incumbent proactively identifies, prioritizes and delivers results-oriented practitioner research, digital / analytical solutions that add value and bring differentiation benefits to Broward College, an agenda which is consistent with the College's overall student success agenda. This position provides executive-level data and develops tools to promote data-informed Decision Support Systems (DSS) and Executive Decision Support (ESS). Provides thought leadership in research methods, technologies and direction to academic programs, administrative and support units. Assists the Associate Vice President, Institutional Research in designing and directing practitioner based quantitative and qualitative studies, policy analyses and evaluations using qualitative and mixed method practitioner research, surveys, statistical and mathematical predictive modeling, and advanced analytical/data science methodologies.

  • Provides overall leadership for the College’s business intelligence and analytics activities with significant activities focused on student success and research preeminence performance metrics and Data Science.
  • Oversees the development of special studies and detailed briefings to meet the information needs of the Senior College Leadership and campus Management, Deans, Associate Vice-Presidents, as well as all other college constituents.
  • Educates end-users on data sources and self-service BI tools.
  • Oversees the maintenance and furthers the development of BC Student Dashboard, a college-wide resource for providing the College community with key data through strategic dashboard tools.
  • Provides guidance and direction for all academic, administrative and support units in identifying most appropriate research methodologies, statistical analysis and evaluation methods.
  • Interacts with internal and external clients to scope project requirements; formulates execution plans, and present results and recommendations.
  • Performs strategic data analysis, data modeling, and research to support business needs and strategy.
  • Utilizes advanced analytic methods and analyses including, but not limited to, linear / non-linear regression modeling, decision tree analysis, cluster analysis, factor analysis, and survival analysis.
  • Evaluates model performance and conduct iterative model training to maximize predictive and forecast accuracy on an on-going basis.
  • Oversees institutional data collection, management, and facilitates its use in decision – support and decision - making.
  • Coordinates the college wide submission of all institutional data, oversees updates, and ensures integrity of institutional data.
  • Coordinates and resolves data governance issues with support from IT, and the institutional data advisory team.
  • Conducts presentations of institutional research information to various audiences of administration, faculty, Board members and members of the community.
  • Serves as the IR department representative in matters related to institutional research and evaluation.
  • Responsible for people management of the area including recommendation of staffing, hiring, termination and discipline, setting performance standards and evaluating staff, staff development and training.
  • Represents the college in local, state and national committees and task forces appropriate to the areas of immediate responsibility.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned.
  • Master's degree (MA/MS) in Quantitative and/or Social Science disciplines, such as, Business, Management, Mathematics, Statistics, Education, Analytics, Big Data, Business research methodology or related fields.
  • Over eight years of general business experience, including five years in management and three years in post-secondary or higher education.
  • Experience and proven expertise in designing, reporting and delivering analytical solutions.
  • Desirable experience in data visualization, data modeling, data mining, data cleansing, and statistical techniques.
  • Knowledge of unstructured data highly desirable.
  • Experience in statistical programming languages such as R, Matlab, STATA, Lisrel; Machine Learning technologies - R, Jupyter & Python, SkLearn, Numpy.
  • Expertise in Predictive Modeling, Applied Machine Learning/Python Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, Data Warehouse technologies.
  • Practical experience in SPSS.
  • General knowledge of Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, Map reduce, MongoDB, Hive, Spark.
  • Affordable High Quality Healthcare Insurance (Medical, Dental & Vision)
  • Retirement Options – Florida Retirement System (FRS) Pension Plan or the FRS Investment Plan
  • Wellness Program
  • Vacation/Paid Time Off
  • Winter and Spring Break Off
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Tuition Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement are available to employees and family members
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