Job Description

Staff - Non Union

Job Category M&P - AAPS

Job Profile AAPS Salaried - Institutional Analysis, Level B

Job Title Research and Evaluation Analyst

Department Research Analysis | Planning and Institutional Research

Compensation Range $7,071.58 - $10,169.00 CAD Monthly
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Posting End Date November 25, 2023

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above.

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Please include a cover letter with your application.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Summary
At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.
The Research and Evaluation Analyst is responsible for managing annual large-scale UBC institutional surveys including, survey deployment, data processing and analysis, information reporting, and quality assurance. The incumbent will also review survey-reporting needs at UBC, and develop reporting tools to disseminate survey data to support planning and inform decision-making across UBC, as well as supporting evaluations of key initiatives across the University.

Organizational Status
Working under the direction of the Associate Director, Student Experience Evaluation and Research (SEER), and the Chief Institutional Research Officer (CIRO), the Research and Evaluation Analyst position will also work collaboratively with other members of the SEER team and the Planning and Institutional Research (PAIR) department.

Work Performed

• The position will support planning and inform decision making across the university in the evaluation of student programs and services regarding the student experience and learning environment.
• Administer, analyze, and report on large-scale institutional student surveys such as the Undergraduate Experience Survey, the National Survey of Student Engagement, the New to UBC Survey, etc.
• Coordinate the design, data collection, data cleaning and processing, data analysis and reporting of large-scale institutional surveys.
• Establish and/or use standardized processes and automation to process and report on large-scale data sets. Provide quality assurance and ensure compliance with the Survey Governance Framework.
• maintain survey database and data pipeline for automation and ensure data quality and data integrity within the data model.
• Clean, process, transform large-scale data sets via statistical programming language (e.g. R, SPSS) to create calculated variables, to label variables and values, to merge data files, to compute dependent and independent variables, to flag outliers, to extract variables, etc.
• Provide online, interactive reporting to all stakeholders while protecting data confidentiality of students using Tableau or Power BI. Use statistical programming language for archiving and replicating data processing and analysis.
• Conduct statistical analyses to support decision-making and evaluate progress towards strategic objectives.
• Lead consultations with internal clients for receiving input on annual UBC student surveys; identify recommendations and opportunities for how the annual surveys could support their planning needs.
• Communicate results, implications and provide recommendations for both research and non-research / non-technical audiences, verbally and in writing.
• Other duties as assigned.

Consequence of Error/Judgement
Data and analysis from this position will be used for decision-making at all levels of the institution, and errors in the data and analysis can potentially have consequences in terms of strategic direction, programming, policy, and budget and human resource decisions. The Incumbent, given initial parameters, would be expected to be able to obtain the necessary data and conduct analyses without direct supervision. The Associate Director, SEER, will review analyses produced at a high level, but detailed analyses will be the accountability of the Research and Evaluation Analyst.

Supervision Received
This position should be able to work independently for the most part, having tasks assigned by the Associate Director, SEER. The Associate Director will review analyses produced at a high level, but detailed analyses will be the accountability of the Research and Evaluation Analyst.

Supervision Given
May be required to provide direction to junior and/or student staff.

Minimum Qualifications

• Post-graduate degree in a relevant discipline. Degree in a relevant social science or quantitative discipline such as Education, Sociology, Health, Statistics, Business, etc. Minimum of four years\xe2\x80\x99 experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one\xe2\x80\x99s own
• Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing one\xe2\x80\x99s own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in large-scale survey research including project management, client management, and timeline management, as well as questionnaire design, sample design, statistical analysis and report writing for a non-technical audience.
• Experience supporting, collaborating with, reporting to various stakeholders in large organizational settings.
• Strong analytical aptitude with proven experience in analytics and reporting; knowledge of databases and an understanding of data visualization concepts are a strong asset.
• Other assets include experience and practical knowledge in ETL databases; in Python, Oracle, and SQL; in working with large data files with hundreds of variables and thousands of cases in statistical software (e.g. R, SPSS); in data cleaning, coding, processing, data transformations and cross-tabulations using statistical programming language (e.g. R, SPSS syntax); in generating and publishing dashboards using Tableau Desktop; in using data visualizations effectively to present the story in the data.
• Experience using Microsoft Excel for processing data files and generating tables and graphs. Experience with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc. Experience with survey programming and survey deployment using survey tools. Experience with Qualtrics an asset.
• Excellent communication skills including ability to articulate technical concepts in non-technical terms, and gather business requirements from non-technical clients; ability to work independently with minimal assistance as well as collaboratively; strong problem-solving skills and judgment; attentive to detail, and values quality assurance.