Job Details

Dean of Institutional Research and Organizational Performance

Salary: $80,000

Mohawk Valley Community College provides accessible, high-quality educational opportunities to meet the diverse needs of our students. We are the community’s college, committed to student success through partnerships, transfer and career pathways, and personal enrichment.

The College is looking for exceptional colleagues to join the MVCC community. We are currently seeking a full-time Dean of Institutional Research and Organizational Performance in our Institutional Research department. The Dean provides leadership for the Institutional Research department in fulfilling its responsibility for coordinating compliance efforts as well as data gathering management, assessment, and analysis to inform planning and decision-making and improve overall organizational performance at the College. 

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Engages with all members of the college and the community we serve in a manner that that is welcoming, friendly, respectful, cooperative, and collaborative;
• Promotes strengths-based positive leadership that helps nurture and shape a high-performing, vibrant and inclusive organizational culture that sustains organizational health and wellness;
• Develops and leads cross-functional teams to coordinate college-wide and departmental efforts to continually strengthen compliance efforts and infuse data throughout the College to improve decision-making and performance;
• Establishes, administers and coordinates the College’s institutional research activities including but not limited to collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting data and information;
• Oversees the data collection and reporting system to monitor and benchmark (where possible) Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that measure organizational performance at the institutional level and guidance for program and departmental-level performance;
• Oversees, prepares and presents data analyses and reports for the College’s administration and faculty and facilitates understanding of the data to support decision making;
• Develops a reliable system of periodic reporting and dissemination of planning, assessment, and other data needed for quality management to College divisions and departments, governance groups (e.g., Councils, Committees, Workgroups, etc.);
• Ensures the integrity quality of data systems, and works with departments to correct data discrepancies;
• Certifies the accurate and timely completion of all external reporting requirement such as SUNY, New York State Education, and Federal reporting requirements;
• Oversees the accuracy and consistent formatting of institutional reports for appropriate audiences and monitors the data on the College’s Institutional Effectiveness webpage;
• Guides timely departmental responses to requests for reports, questionnaires, and data or analysis;
• Directs the implementation of internal College surveys and supports and assists College departments in survey tool use;
• Develops and designs surveys, and analyzes, reports and makes recommendations based on survey results to support College departments;
• Serves as the College’s contact for human and animal research requests, and as Chair of the Research Review Team (RRT) as MVCC’s IRB function;
• Supports the College’s academic program review, institutional and outcomes assessment, accreditation reviews, and institutional planning committees and task forces;
• Contributes to the College’s strategic planning process and provides appropriate data in support of the College’s goals and objectives;
• Collaborates with the faculty, staff, and administrator assessment staff to implement the College’s Institutional Effectiveness Plan and serves as the College’s primary leader for the assessment of organizational performance institutional outcomes assessment;
• Serves on College committees and councils as assigned, and provides leadership for data- related governance groups;
• Collaborates with SUNY counterparts, alliances, consortia, and College affiliates, and maintains professional associations to share formation, and to gather/interpret reliable and useful data and information for the College;
• Supervises, assigns, recruits, evaluates, develops, promotes and disciplines assigned staff;
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Vice President for Administrative Services.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree
• Five (5) years of institutional research or related experience
• Effective communication skills and analytical skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and data analysis software
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in a college or university setting
• Working knowledge of Oracle/Banner systems
• Proficiency in SQL, MS Access, or other database tools
• Experience with SUNY SIRIS file submissions

We encourage applicants who meet the minimum qualifications and have transferable skills to apply. If you have related experience that may not align perfectly with the job description, we’d still like to hear from you.

To learn more about MVCC, please visit: https://www.mvcc.edu/about/discover

Special Instructions to Applicants: Official academic transcripts required upon hire.

Review Start Date: 5/19/2025