Research Analyst Jobs

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Job Category

M&P - AAPS

Job Profile

AAPS Salaried - Institutional Analysis, Level A

Job Title

Research Analyst

Department

Research Analysis | Planning and Institutional Research

Compensation Range

$5,063.67 - $7,294.50 CAD Monthly

The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.

Posting End Date

June 30, 2023

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

Job End Date

Jun 30, 2024

Guiding principle: "Midpoint" of the hiring salary range means the individual possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience.

Hybrid working arrangements can be negotiated.

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.

Job Summary

The Canadian Campus Wellbeing Survey (www.ccws-becc.ca) has been designed to help Canadian post-secondary institutions better support whole campus health and wellbeing. The CCWS plays a valuable role in assessing and developing population health initiatives targeting the increasing number of young Canadians attending post-secondary institutions. Implementation of the CCWS is coordinated by the Population Physical Activity Lab at UBC in collaboration with the UBC Student Experience Evaluation and Research (SEER) team. This position will contribute to the success of this multi-institutional survey project, and support the logistical and technical aspects from survey deployment to the reporting of survey results.

Organizational Status

The Research Analyst is a member of the Student Experience Evaluation & Research (SEER) team, within the Planning and Institutional Research Office, under the general direction of the Chief Institutional Research Officer. The Research Analyst reports to the Associate Director, SEER and receives direction from the Project Manager, CCWS, based in the Population Physical Activity Lab, Vancouver campus.

Work Performed

Support the technical and logistical aspects of the Canadian Campus Wellbeing Survey (CCWS), by:

• Working with the Associate Director, SEER, and the Project Manager, CCWS, to address workload and resourcing issues to manage timelines and expectations of clients.
• Assisting institutions with the details involved in preparing and administering the survey, including email invitations to the survey, email reminders, building and processing student email lists. This may involve liaising with institutions’ IT departments, UBC IT, Qualtrics, and more.
• Using statistical programming language for archiving and replicating data processing and analysis.
• Cleaning, processing, transforming large-scale data via statistical programming language (e.g. R, SPSS, STATA, SAS, python) 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.
• Supporting the efficient coordination and confidential exchange of sensitive information (e.g. student email lists, response rate progress reports, survey results) between post-secondary institutions and UBC.
• Collecting and reporting on survey data for post-secondary institutions while ensuring consistency and comparability of results across survey years and across institutions
• Designing online, interactive reporting using Tableau (or similar reporting tool) to all institutions while protecting data confidentiality of students and of institutions.

Consequence of Error/Judgement

Data and analysis from this position will be used for decision-making at UBC as well as other partner post-secondary institutions across Canada. Errors in the data and analysis can potentially have consequences in terms of strategic direction, programming, policy, and budget and human resource decisions. The Research Analyst will be given parameters for creating analyses, and will be accountable to the Project Manager, CCWS, for review.

Supervision Received

Works under direction of the Associate Director, SEER, in terms of adherence to established practices and by the Project Manager, CCWS, in terms of achievement of defined objectives.

Supervision Given

This role is not responsible for providing supervision.

Qualifications

• Experience using efficient, automated processes to generate tailored reports out of centrally collected survey data. Experience generating and publishing Tableau dashboards (or similar reporting tool) to visualize survey data. Experience creating customized reports and dashboards as requested by end users.
• The incumbent must demonstrate strong analytical aptitude with proven experience in analytics and reporting; an understanding of data visualization concepts are a strong asset.
• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline. Minimum of two years of related experience, or the equivalent combination of education and experience in quantitative research methods, quantitative data and analyses.
• Experience in running large-scale survey research involving large-scale survey data sets and multiple survey locations or populations. Experience with survey programming and survey deployment using survey tools (e.g. Qualtrics). Must be proficient with R, Qualtrics, OneDrive. Familiar with RESTful API and Python.
• Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing one’s own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
• Experience in research and statistical analysis of different data levels common in post-secondary institutions (e.g. students, departments, institutions, and geographic regions) an asset. Experience supporting, collaborating with, reporting to various stakeholders in large organizational settings an asset.
• Experience in data cleaning, coding, processing, data transformations and cross-tabulations using statistical programming language (e.g. SPSS syntax). Experience with generating and interpreting a large volume of cross-tabulated tables.
• Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one’s own.
• Excellent communication skills including ability to communicate project status, manage project expectations. Able to work independently with minimal assistance as well as collaboratively; strong problem solving skills and judgment; attentive to detail, and values quality assurance.
• Experience working with project managers and clients to manage project timeline and deliverable expectations in survey research, communicating with clients professionally.
• Experience handling challenges unique to survey data (e.g. working with small samples, nonresponse bias, processing 'select all that apply' questions, cleaning survey skips). Strong theoretical and practical knowledge of designing and conducting survey research, and of descriptive and inferential statistics.