Research Analyst

**CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU** **MISSION STATEMENT** Chaminade University offers its students an education in a collaborative learning environment that prepares them for life, service and successful careers. Guided by its Catholic, Marianist and liberal arts educational traditions, Chaminade encourages the development of moral character, personal competencies, and a commitment to build a just and peaceful society. The University offers both the civic and church communities of the Pacific region its academic and intellectual resources in the pursuit of common aims. **I. Position Information** Title: Research Analyst Division: Academic Affairs/Vice Provost Department: Office of Institutional Research & Institutional Effectiveness Exempt Full Time 1.0 FTE Staff EAM/Grade: TBD by Human Resources **II. Position Summary** The Research Analyst is the primary technical and analytical staff role for the Office of Institutional Research & Institutional Effectiveness. The incumbent serves as the primary technical coordinator for assigned institutional research, institutional reporting, assessment-support, and compliance-reporting functions; produces and validates institutional reports; develops dashboards, one-pagers, census and post-census packages, and recurring data packets; supports required federal, state, accreditation, and other official reporting; and maintains the documentation, methodology notes, data dictionary, change log, and reporting repository needed to make institutional reporting repeatable, accurate, and dependable over time. The Research Analyst also supports a culture of evidence by helping institutional stakeholders understand what the data mean, what the limits of the data are, and how information should be interpreted for planning and improvement. The position may use institutionally approved AI-enabled tools to improve workflow efficiency, documentation, summarization, query support, data-cleaning processes, and draft reporting products while maintaining human review, data privacy, methodological transparency, and responsibility for validated institutional data. **III. Reports to:** Direct Report to: Assistant Provost for Institutional Effectiveness **IV. Essential Duties and Responsibilities** **Decision Support (25%)** - Provides ad hoc analysis and decision-support for Cabinet, deans, chairs, program directors, committees, and accreditation work when requests align with office priorities and governance. - Supports request intake, triage, tracking, and prioritization for data and reporting requests, ensuring that requests are aligned with office priorities, data-governance expectations, and available capacity. - Translates technical findings into plain-language summaries, interpretation notes, dashboards, one-pagers, and other visual reporting products that are useful to non-technical audiences. - Supports a culture of evidence by helping units understand the meaning, appropriate use, limitations, and planning implications of institutional data. - Contributes to survey design, administration, reporting, environmental scans, benchmarking, and special studies as assigned. **Standard Reporting and Analytics (45%)** - Produces and maintains recurring institutional reports and dashboards, including enrollment, census and post-census reporting, retention, graduation, student success, and other standard university metrics. - Develops and maintains program review data packets, fact book content, cabinet- and dean-level one-pagers, and other standard reporting products that reduce one-off work and improve consistency. - Supports assessment and academic program review reporting infrastructure, including WEAVE, assessment archives, program-review evidence packets, assessment documentation, and related reporting repositories as assigned. - Coordinates or supports the course/faculty evaluation survey process, including survey setup, data validation, summary reporting, documentation, and communication of results as as…