Associate Director, Institutional Research & Planning

Position Information

Posting Number NC00824 Position Title Associate Director, Institutional Research & Planning Division Academic Affairs Division Department Name Institutional Research and Planning Position Type Staff - Non Classified

Position Overview

Join a mission‑driven team where your expertise in data and research will directly shape the future of the college. As Associate Director of Institutional Research & Planning, you'll be the campus leader ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and strategic power of the institution's data-fueling insights that guide planning, drive innovation, and strengthen student success. You'll lead high‑impact reporting, champion new technologies, and produce research that informs decisions across every corner of the college.

If you're a collaborative, detail‑obsessed analyst who loves transforming complex information into meaningful action, this role offers the opportunity to elevate your impact while helping move the institution forward.

Rhode Island College (RIC) is the state's first public institution of higher education, founded in 1854 and home to more than 6,600 students on a vibrant, 180‑acre campus in Providence. Known as a true "College of Opportunity," RIC delivers high‑quality, affordable programs and a supportive, diverse learning community that helps students transform their lives and futures.

Primary Purpose

The Associate Director is responsible for meeting internal and external reporting requirements, as well as performing research, administrative and analytical tasks to support the operational, planning, and management decisions of the college. The Associate Director also takes a lead role in ensuring the integrity of the college's official data.

Essential Duties

* Manage the college's official data files by ensuring that they are complete, accurate, and timely.

* Collaborate with the Director and other offices to develop and execute policies and procedures that ensure the integrity of the college's data.

* Collaborate with the Director, office staff, and others to develop and deploy strategies (such as new technologies) to manage and report on the college's data more efficiently and effectively

* Maintain compliance with IPEDS and other federal and state reporting requirements.

* Respond to requests for information from publishers of college guidebooks and other surveys.

* Provide responses to ongoing and ad hoc requests for institutional information.

* Produce and update the college Fact Book, Quick Facts and other standard reports.

* Conduct research (through surveys and other instruments) on the characteristics of the institution, to include students, personnel, operations and finances.

* Prepare and deliver presentations of research findings.

* Work jointly with college administrators, faculty, and staff and external institutions and agencies as required.

* Supervise and mentor junior staff and/or graduate assistants.

* Engage in continuing professional development.

* Help maintain the office web site.

Occasional Duties

* Perform other related duties as required or as assigned by the Director of Institutional Research and Planning.

* Provide next line leadership in the absence of the Director.

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

* Skilled at working with large databases, including merging files and developing and maintaining queries.

* Ability to maintain and enhance the integrity of data on databases.

* Capacity to use technology to increase efficiency and effectiveness of data maintenance and reporting.

* Exceptional attention to detail, coupled with the ability to see the broader purpose of projects.

* Knowledge of statistical principles and procedures, sampling and survey techniques.

* Knowledge of research design, including planning studies and investigations; determining variables; developing bibliographical and other sources of data; and preparing research reports.

* Ability to gather, compile, and analyze research data and present data in tabular, pictorial, and graphic form.

* Ability to prepare clear and comprehensive reports.

* Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

* Excellent organizational skills.

* Ability to establish and…