Director of Analytic Services for Institutional Planning and Research and Associate Provost (University of Florida)

Classified Ad Title:
Director of Analytic Services for Institutional Planning and Research and Associate Provost (University of Florida)

Post Date
12/18/2025

Expiration Date
1/30/2026

Details:
The Director of Analytic Services for Institutional Planning and Research and Associate Provost will:
- Oversee all functions of IPR, including institutional data governance, reporting, analytics, dashboards, projections, and survey administration.
- Serve as UF’s University Data Administrator for the Florida Board of Governors; AAUDE Liaison; IPEDS Keyholder; and Academic Analytics liaison.
- Ensure the integrity, quality, accessibility, and strategic use of institutional data.
- Provide rapid, accurate responses and strategic analyses for senior administration.
- Lead the development of new reporting capabilities, dashboards, predictive models, and analytical tools (e.g., Tableau, SAS, SQL).
- Drive data stewardship and policy compliance across the university while ensuring alignment with FERPA, public records requirements, and external reporting standards.
- Oversee a $1.1M departmental budget and ensure secure handling of confidential student and personnel data.

Key Responsibilities and Qualifications
- Provide strategic leadership and operational oversight for OIPR.
- Recruit, supervise, and mentor a high-performing institutional research team.
- Ensure accuracy and methodological rigor in all reports, models, simulations, and analyses.
- Demonstrate expertise in specific types of analyses (ex. salary studies, enrollment projections, retention and graduation, quality of doctoral programs, doctoral time to degree, faculty effort, faculty turnover, faculty honors and awards, faculty publications and citations, peer benchmarking, analyze return on investment in research centers and institutes).
- Oversee development and maintenance of UF’s self-service data infrastructure and analytics tools.
- Engage proactively with emerging institutional or policy issues and develop data-driven solutions.
- Manage relationships, reporting, and methodological alignment with:
- Florida Board of Governors:
- AAUDE
- NCES/IPEDS
- Academic Analytics
- CSRDE
- Support academic program review, assessment, general education, degree program changes, sabbaticals, and other academic processes through targeted data analyses.
- Establish and interpret data policies related to metadata, methodology, and data security.
- Shape the long-term direction of UF’s institutional research capabilities.

Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in a relevant field.
- Six years of related experience in institutional research or data administration.

Preferred:
- Doctoral degree in quantitative discipline, plus at least six years of directly related IR leadership experience; or a Master’s degree in a quantitative discipline plus 10 years of IR management experience.
- Demonstrated experience in a complex R1 research university, preferably an AAU institution.
- Extensive knowledge of university academic, administrative, and business processes.
- Expertise in statistics, research methods, predictive modeling, and modern IR tools (e.g., SAS, Tableau, SQL, business intelligence platforms).
- Experience presenting analysis at major conferences, as well as local campus presentations.
- Superior communication skills with the ability to convey complex information clearly to senior leaders.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across diverse academic and administrative units.
- Deep understanding of federal and state higher education reporting requirements and data governance standards.

Additional Requirements
- Must comply with UF’s financial and vendor-processing rules.
- Position is subject to federal and state privacy regulations, including FERPA and Florida Public Information laws.

Employer:
University of Florida
Contact:
Audrey M. Gainey

Address:
Audrey M. Gainey, SHRM-SCP, CCSP
Director, Talent Acquisition & Onboarding
University of Florida | Human Resources
352-273-1706 | gaineya1@ufl.edu

Email:
gaineya1@ufl.edu

Website:
https://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/538079/director-of-analytic-services-for-institutional-planning-and-research-and-associate-provost