Institutional Research Analyst Responsibilities
The institutional research analyst responsibilities include executing officially formal and specialized investigative and research operations in the institutions of upper education. His/her undertakings include indulging in investigations with respect to most of the operations handled in the institution. He/she also studies and examines the reports of various undertakings on a cyclic basis. He/she examines the work samples and simulations and administrates the data systems of the institution with which he/she is attached.
An institutional research analyst conducts specialized investigations on a wide range of students, the management, the faculty and programs of the institution. He/she also analyzes the syllabus and teaching staff of the same. He/she takes advice from all the levels of management and also from the wing of professors and instructors at the organization. He/she takes part in investigative analysis and compiles and arranges the information necessary for the same. He/she also explains the collections of his/her investigations and documents them. An institutional research analyst has the following key responsibilities and duties:
- Displaying the results of the investigations conducted by him/her in the organization
- Conducting intricate research and examinations on external and internal issues of the university
- Aiding in creating investigative procedures and programs for selected analysis and examinations within the organization
- Compiling and arranging the information of the organization properly and studying and scrutinizing the statistics of the same by using computer back up, as and when required
- Explaining the findings of his/her investigations to the administration of the organization
- Documenting specialized reports in the organization with regard to the findings on his/her investigations
- Recognizing, studying and examining those regions of the organization that have significant issues and scrutinizing and settling the matters of its administration
- Analyzing the instructional methods and procedures of the organization and helping in studying and examining the plans, programs and standard rules and regulations of the same
- Assessing the information of the organization, recognizing the latter's work styles and underlying the same's components
- Arranging the organization data properly in order to recognize its work cycles
- Making and formulating the reports of the organization, as and when needed
- Starting and organizing the investigations in such a way that they facilitate the easy compilation of and smooth access to different information in the company
- Using the data of the organization in modifying and enhancing the plans, records and graphic reports of the same
- Creating reports required by the state and government of the country and enhancing their presentations that contain brief statistical data
- Managing various investigative undertakings and tasks of the organization in integration with the programs, strategies and precedencies of various investigations conducted in the same
- Overseeing the creation and design of polls in the organization while working on computers and through documents
- Aiding in assessing all the facets of the institution and backing up its director
- Assisting the director of the institution in designing various investigative programs and undertakings and improving the requirements of all the sections of the organization and the entire organization
- Collaborating with the director of the organization in order to conduct polls with regards to the investigations held in the same
- Running practical and dependable investigative methods in the institution to compile, assess and present information with respect to issues linked with the involvement of studies, results and developments of the enrollees
- Upholding a happy and unique teaching style and instructional environment and taste in the organization alongside issues linked to its enhancement and recognition
- Giving spoken presentations of various investigations conducted in the organization with the help of charts, graphs and tables
- Backing up various involved assessments and judgment devising methods and procedures of the institution at its different levels
- Making predictions in the institution for strategizing the standard principles and regularizations of the same
- Formulating the fiscal reports of the institution and arranging the same in a proper format
- Creating, enhancing, upholding and acting upon the programmed information bases of the institution
- Holding various investigations in the organization to help in enforcing the programs and monetary funds of the same
- Overseeing the overall assessments, investigations and programs conducted in the institution
- Performing all other remaining jobs, duties, functions, roles, operations, undertakings, workings and the tasks of an institutional research analyst in the institution that are allocated to him/her and fall in his/her area of administration, supervision and directive guidance
Educational Qualifications and Skills Required
The candidate who wants to work as an institutional research analyst should have a bachelor's degree in research methodology and has to be a graduate under all circumstances. He/she can also acquire the same degree in any other related field like statistics or educational research. He/she must have the concerned degree that has spanned a time period of four years and his/her college must be well accredited and acknowledged.
He/she could also have received training and experience in the same field for an equal amount of time. An institutional research analyst can have a master's degree in the related subjects and this would be more preferred for a good and lucrative job. He/she could do well in his/her career if he/she has some skills. He/she needs to have good documenting and assisting skills. He/she would also do well if he/she remains updated on his/her subjects and field.
The institutional research analyst needs to be familiar with the investigative methods and computer programs of the institution. He/she should have good higher educational, communication, English written as well as spoken skills. He/she would need to have good relations with the institutional staff and students. At last, he/she should also have the ability to work as a team member or under someone else and that too very effectively and efficiently.
Working Conditions
An institutional research analyst generally works in the office of institutional research and assessment (IRA). He/she has normal working shifts from nine in the morning to about five in the evening. He/she may also have to work for additional hours, in case his/her work targets are not met. He/she gets two offs in a single week and may also have to travel ocassionally and attend instructional classes in order to update himself/herself with the latest technological developments in the field. He/she has natural working conditions and settings and they become fast paced, only when extra tasks are to be completed.
Salary
The institutional research analyst makes an average amount of USD 44, 100 every year.
Thus, the institutional research analyst responsibilities include executing research activities in the institution and informing the administration personnel and the director of the same about his/her investigative findings.
