Job Summary
The Assessment and Evaluation Manager is a research faculty position that leads assessment, evaluation, and learning analytics across the Center for Leadership’s student, staff, and faculty programs. This role advances evidence-based improvement by developing assessment frameworks, supporting meaningful learning outcomes, and translating data into actionable insights. Responsibilities include managing complex leadership education data, overseeing survey design and analysis, and producing…
reports, dashboards, and graphics.
A core responsibility is the design and management of a Leadership Faculty Fellows program, a cohort-based initiative that partners with faculty to evaluate campus leadership programs and strengthen equitable assessment practices. Through this work, the position helps enhance leadership learning outcomes, assessment strategies, and program effectiveness across CU Boulder.
Who We Are
The Center for Leadership (CFL) at the University of Colorado Boulder serves as a multidisciplinary leadership hub to support, connect, and elevate leadership programs, resources, and research across the university.
What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be
Strategic Assessment & Evaluation Leadership
- Provide vision and oversight for the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of assessment and evaluation practices for CFL programs.
- Develop and maintain shared leadership learning outcomes aligned with the CFL’s values, models, and institutional priorities.
Create Data Strategy
- Support data gathering and analysis to develop the CFL’s overall data strategy.
- Lead longitudinal data collection and analysis for leadership education.
- Produce and maintain dashboards and reports.
Survey Administration and Analysis
- Collaborate with the CFL Director and staff on survey design and methodology.
- Design and implement mixed-methods assessment strategies.
Leadership Faculty Fellows Assessment Program
- Lead the development and facilitation of a Faculty Fellows program focused on leadership program evaluation and assessment capacity-building across campus.
Collaboration & Capacity Building
- Consult with campus colleagues on leadership-related assessment best practices.
What We Require
- A bachelor’s degree in industrial organizational or quantitative psychology, organizational behavior, statistics, applied math, computer science, data science, or related field.
- Three or more years of experience in higher education assessment, program evaluation, institutional research, or a closely related area.
- Experience developing research questions and methodologies, curating data sets, conducting analysis, and building data tools and products.
- Using reproducible data analytics workflows, and using SQL, Python, R, and/or SPSS for data queries, data manipulation, and analysis.
- Using Tableau or other data visualization tools.
- Demonstrated experience with mixed-methods research and evaluation.
