Executive Director, Institutional Research

Location: Prairie View

Job Title

Executive Director, Institutional Research

Agency

Prairie View A&M University

Department

Institutional Research and Effectiveness

Proposed Minimum Salary

Commensurate

Job Location

Prairie View, Texas

Job Type

Staff

Job Description

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- Important Immigration information:

A Presidential proclamation issued on September 19, 2025, imposes a $100,000 fee on new H-1B petitions filed after September 21, 2025. Please be advised that Texas A&M University will NOT pay this fee. Therefore, if you need immigration sponsorship for your employment, we recommend that you consult with your private immigration counsel at your own expense to ascertain whether your current immigration status would make a potential offer of employment from Texas A&M University subject to this fee.

In addition, on January 27, 2026, Texas Governor Abbot issued a moratorium on the filing of any new H-1B unless approved by the Texas Workforce Commission. Accordingly, if you will now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status this moratorium may affect our ability to employ you should you be selected as the final candidate

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- The Director of Institutional Research oversees the Office of Institutional Research and Integrated Data Analytics, overseeing the mission-critical university functions including planning, data governance, research, reporting, and support of university and senior leadership initiatives. The director will act as a trusted advisor to leadership, delivering analytics and inform decisions, shape strategy, and support long-term goals. They will combine data management and data curation to surface insights that matter and produce stories and visualizations that instigate action and impact student and university success.

The director drives the overall vision of the department by implementing effective strategies for data management, data science, and data analytics to support the centralized collection, management, analysis, interpretation and reporting of data information and evidence for making data-informed decisions.

The salary is determined in accordance with the University's compensation structure and will be commensurate with the candidates' education and experience, within the assigned salary range for this position.

Responsibilities:

Data Governance

* Leads and coordinates the activities of the university Data Governance Committee to ensure coordination and comprehensive testing by power users and data owners across campus as the primary protocols to be followed by all university constituents before changes to any institutional data system can be made, including new and existing integration or sun setting of data platforms.

* Proven understanding of the data ecosystem-from data entry points to data warehouses, to queries and reports, to dashboards, including query and report validation to crate actionable information for end users.

* Serves as the Education Advisory Board (EAB) Edify platform implementation lead for Institutional Research that joins all institutional data via data governance initiatives and the promotion of data stewardship across the institution.

* Engage with data owners, requestors, and users to define reporting needs and analyze business findings and improve efficiencies.

Data Management

* Proficiency working in client/server environments, including extract, transform, and load (ELT) processes and editing and testing for data integrity, system security and control, and backup and recovery processes.

* Oversees the Operational Data Store (ODS) used by IRE as a composite information system for the storage of archival data that is accessed by SQL extraction queries to provide reporting information.

* Develops technologically driven enhancements for providing internal constituents with access to data and information for decision making (currently provided through the reporting tools of Tableau and Argos).

* Builds systems and processes to ensure data quality, consistency, and accuracy.

* Oversees adherence to best practices in reporting standards, coding, and data management through reviews and quality assurance processes.

* Monitors and directs the processes of data collection and validation for online data reports, interactive data dashboards, and daily operations reports.

* Troubleshoots problems, identifies solutions, and proposes improvements in efficiency pertaining to the operation of databases and reporting tools (ODS, Tableau, Argos, Excel, etc.).

* Oversees the collection of data through national and other surveys (NSSE, FSSE) as well as the centralized point for collection of data for internal and/or ad-hoc purposes using institutional tools (Qualtrics) to ensure appropriate data is collected about students throughout the entire student life cycle…