"Assistant Director"

Assistant Director

Company: North Carolina State University

Job Location: Raleigh, NC

Category: Institutional Research and Planning

Type: Full-Time

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Location: Raleigh, NC

Essential Job Duties: The assistant director of research and evaluation will work with and manage a team of researchers to conduct research and evaluation specifically for community college stakeholders including college presidents, policymakers, and practitioners.

Primary duties are as follows:

• Design qualitative or quantitative evaluation approaches and collect data (20%)
• Clean and analyze qualitative or quantitative data (30%)
• Develop and write reports, executive summaries, and/or scholarly articles to disseminate findings, independently or within groups of researchers (15%)
• Publish and/or co-publish research and present findings at regional and national conferences (5%)
• Support the development of research skills with graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and external collaborators (5%)
• Collaborate with research leadership to organize documentation and data related to the research agenda (10%)
• Collaborate with leadership team to develop project-relevant content for convenings (5%)
• Some travel may be required to engage with stakeholders for designing studies, collecting data, and presenting findings (10%)

Other Work/Responsibilities: This role will primarily manage and support qualitative or quantitative research in the following areas:

• Manage research and evaluation about North Carolina's replication of the CUNY ASAP model for a project called PACE: Pathways for Accelerating Completion and Employment
• Manage research and evaluation for federally funded grants including Title III, Rural Postsecondary Economic Development, and Institute for Education Sciences
• Collaborate with associate directors of research and evaluation to meet established grant timelines and deliverables
• Support a team of researchers that may include graduate students

Minimum Experience/Education:

Requires post-baccalaureate credentials or a bachelor's degree plus alternative or equivalent professional training and experience may be substituted for the advanced degree on an exceptional basis.

Required Qualifications:

• Advanced knowledge of and experience working with qualitative data or longitudinal data sets at the student level.
• Experience conducting research using qualitative coding and thematic memo-ing or quantitative statistics and quasi-experimental designs
• Knowledge of the unique context of community colleges.
• Expertise using qualitative software such as Dedoose or Invivo or statistical software such as Stata, SPSS, R, or SAS
• Strong oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• High attention to detail, accuracy, and quality control
• Some nights and weekend work.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ph.D or equivalent doctorate (e.g., Ed.D.) in appropriate field
• Substantial knowledge of the North Carolina Community Colleges

Required License or Certification: N/A