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Requirements

• Master’s degree with three years of relevant work experience, or equivalent.

Nice To Haves

• Doctoral degree in education administration, public policy, data science, information technology, or a related field.
• Experience handling significant budget scope, including a multi-million-dollar data warehouse implementation or metric calculations allocating millions of dollars to colleges.
• Experience managing direct and indirect reports; the posting notes 10 direct/indirect reports.

Responsibilities

• Serve on the Executive Leadership Team and provide authoritative, evidence-based insight for system-level strategic and operational decision-making.
• Support the Executive Leadership Team, President's Leadership Team, and Board of Regents by interpreting institutional trends related to enrollment, completion, workforce outcomes, performance-based funding, accreditation, and compliance.
• Frame data in an executive and strategic context by clarifying implications, risks, tradeoffs, and opportunities, and ensure leadership confidence in institutional reporting and analytics.
• Lead and advance KCTCS's data and analytics strategy through participation in or leadership of cross-functional internal and external committees, task forces, and workgroups.
• Represent KCTCS as a system-level data liaison to external agencies and partners, including CPE, IPEDS, and other state and federal entities, on data governance, reporting standards, and accountability.
• Direct and manage ORPA staff, including strategic leadership, prioritization, and performance management.
• Oversee state and federal reporting, enterprise metrics and performance indicators, functional components of the data warehouse and analytics platforms, applied research and analysis, ad hoc executive requests, and professional leadership for college-based IR/IE staff.
• Ensure staff work aligns with system priorities, supports continuous improvement, and meets quality and consistency standards.
• Promote collaboration across academic, student affairs, finance, workforce, and administrative units so leadership questions are answered using consistent, trusted, and well-governed data.
• Establish and reinforce systemwide standards for definitions, methodologies, and reporting practices.
• Provide administrative leadership for ORPA, including office budget management, resource planning, and operational oversight.

Benefits

• Health care coverage for the employee and family
• Vision coverage for the employee and family
• Dental coverage for the employee and family
• Tuition reimbursement or waiver for the employee, spouse, and dependents
• 403(b) retirement plan with a 10% employer match for a 5% employee contribution
• Vacation and sick time
• Work-life balance
• 9.5 paid holidays
• Two weeks of institutional closing pay during the last two weeks of December for qualifying positions
• Employee Assistance Program