Research & Planning Analyst Jobs

About Durham College
Durham College (DC) is leading the way as a post-secondary institution, offering an innovative and transformative student experience and hands-on learning opportunities. With this focus top of mind for our students and our employees, DC is proud to be one of the fastest-growing colleges in the province and annually ranked as one of the GTA’s Top 100 employers.
The college offers a wide range of market-driven programs across multiple disciplines, including culinary management, farming and horticulture, business, IT, construction and trades, science and technology, health care, engineering, social and community services, justice, media, art and design.
With a focus on experiential learning, DC graduates are known for having the skills and knowledge employers need. More than 104,000 alumni represent the college, both locally and around the world.
Serving the Durham Region and Northumberland County communities for over 50 years, with campuses in Oshawa and Whitby, the college offers over 12,500 full-time post-secondary and apprenticeship students access to more than 145 full-time post-secondary programs – including four honours bachelor degrees and nine apprenticeship programs. Led by over 1,860 full- and part-time staff, DC has an estimated annual economic impact of more than $913 million on Durham Region.
Duties And Responsibilities
This position, reporting to the Director, Institutional Research and Planning, provides extensive research and analysis services on a wide range of college activities at the institutional level, in a fast-paced, challenging environment. A multidisciplinary position with considerable complexity, responsible for conducting research by collecting, extracting, compiling and analyzing relevant information, including statistical assessments, from a wide variety of internal and external sources, assessing additional information needs, and working closely with key contacts to identify solutions and produce professional quality, accurate, reliable, timely and user-friendly data/reports. The incumbent is in particular accountable for conducting strategic applications, enrolment analysis, reporting and forecasting to inform planning and decision-making by the various departments, academic leadership and senior management of the college.
To Execute Institutional Priorities And Research Projects By
This position plays an integral role in supporting the institutional planning, process enhancements, strategic evaluations and decision making by using research expertise:

• Building and integrating a knowledge base of internal and external information sources and findings relevant to institutional research and planning.
• Providing validation/analysis/data visualization/interpretation of the results and presenting conclusions to a variety of stakeholders.
• Conducting statistical analysis to produce professional quality, accurate, reliable, timely and user-friendly data/reports.
• Ensuring data confidentiality and adhering to stringent ethical and research integrity requirements at all times.
• Designing and executing comprehensive research projects that utilize appropriate research design and statistical methodologies for gathering and analyzing data.
• Producing professional quality, well-written publications for internal and external distribution to various stakeholders for planning and decision making.
• Utilizing accepted survey research design methodology and available survey software to design, deploy, test, administer and monitor surveys.
• Collaborating with IT services to ensure data security/confidentiality management of the ERP survey and data software systems.

To Support Strategic Quality And Growth Initiatives By

• Establishing, utilizing, and enhancing best practices for institutional research and planning in cooperation with all areas of the college.
• Providing analysis to support the strategic priorities.
• Producing data visualization dashboards/reports with relevant performance indicators for use by the academic/service areas and senior management.
• Preparing professional quality, accurate, and timely environmental scans and providing relevant labour market information.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in data visualization tools; experience in Tableau would be strong asset.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience research methods, and inferential statistical analysis using SPSS, MS Excel, Python/R or equivalent.
• Proficiency in survey design, and survey project management.
• Ability to work professionally and effectively with people at all levels in and outside of the institution.
• Proficiency in statistical parametric and non-parametric methods, predictive modelling and forecasting techniques.
• Familiarity/training in Banner information system would be an asset as well as related reporting/business intelligence tools (e.g. Cognos BI).
• Ability to take initiative, exercise sound judgment and work independently to meet deadlines.
• Well-developed problem-solving skills and strong time management skills in planning, executing and completing tasks.
• Strong writing proficiency and ability to consistently produce accurate reports through attention to detail, high level of accuracy and critical examination of assumptions and procedures.
• Ability to work professionally and effectively with diverse individuals at all levels in and outside of the College.
• Experience in creating, manipulating and managing large data sets needed for analysis and reporting.
• Post graduate Master’s degree or equivalent in Social Sciences, Education, Business Administration, Research Methods/Analysis, Statistics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, AI/Data Analytics.
• Ability to synthesize and interpret data, and communicate effectively (oral, written and presentation).
• Ability to take initiative, exercise sound judgment and work independently to meet deadlines.

Required Skills
Hourly Rate: $39.15
Required Experience
Hours: 24 hours per week (1) one hour lunch; Mon – Fri (8:30 am – 4:30 pm).
Please apply below by submitting your cover letter and resume to the online portal. Job Competition closes on June 12, 2023. Competition number SP23-18.