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Applied Institutional Research and Data Analytics Strategy
As the lead for Applied Institutional Research and Data Analytics, you will drive strategic decision-making across Air University (AU). This critical role involves planning, designing, and executing comprehensive analytics studies and research proposals. You will leverage enterprise data systems and advanced programming tools-such as Python, R, and SQL-to analyze the student lifecycle, instructional methods, and institutional effectiveness. By establishing robust data governance and collection frameworks, you will ensure accurate, compliant reporting to internal leadership and external stakeholders, including the DoD, CJCS, HAF, and MAJCOM. Additionally, you will serve as a senior advisor, responsibly evaluating emerging AI-enabled tools to deliver ethical, data-informed insights directly to AU leadership.
Academic Reporting and Data Visualization
In this position, you will transform complex data into actionable insights by producing high-impact academic reports, executive briefings, and advanced data visualizations. You will manage key institutional products such as the AU Factbook, interactive dashboards, and Academic Affairs annual reports. Utilizing data storytelling principles, you will present findings to senior leaders, faculty, and students, ensuring analytic rigor aligns with AU's mission. You will also facilitate executive engagements and design enterprise-wide training workshops to foster data literacy, actively building collaborative relationships across the academic enterprise to champion evidence-based decision-making.
Strategic Integration and Institutional Effectiveness
You will play a pivotal role in strategic integration, steering Air University's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) and broader institutional initiatives. This responsibility requires integrating data across academic and administrative systems to assess performance and translate higher headquarters guidance into actionable, cross-functional processes. You will synchronize efforts across schools, centers, and staff directorates to guarantee transparency and alignment with DAF and AETC priorities. Furthermore, your project management expertise will ensure strict compliance with accrediting body standards, effectively bridging the gap between academic, operational, and analytical functions.
Instruction and Professional Development
To empower the AU enterprise, you will design and deliver comprehensive instruction and professional development programs focused on institutional analytics. By facilitating seminars, workshops, and applied training, you will build critical data literacy skills among faculty, staff, and senior leadership. Your instruction will enable personnel to confidently interpret institutional data, apply analytic tools, and integrate evidence into their planning and assessment workflows. To provide top-tier subject matter expertise, you will actively engage with emerging trends, analytical tools, and advanced methodologies in the higher education and institutional research sectors.
Institutional Service and Enterprise Support
Beyond your core analytic and instructional duties, you will provide vital institutional service and enterprise support to top-tier AU leadership, including the Commander, Vice Commander, Chief Academic Officer, and Deputy Provost. You will develop tailored data products to rapidly respond to high-level taskings and support emergent mission requirements. By coordinating multi-school efforts and executing diverse assigned duties, your analytical and advisory support will directly bolster Air University's strategic priorities and ensure operational excellence across the institution.
Requirements
Conditions of employment
In order to qualify, a candidate must meet the education and experience requirements described. The candidate's resume must clearly describe relevant experience, official transcripts will be required as part of the application. An interview is expected to be performed as part of the candidate hiring process.
1. In-depth knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, advanced statistical analysis, and data interpretation techniques to design, conduct, and report on complex institutional studies that inform strategic planning and decision-making.
2. Comprehensive knowledge of strategic planning, institutional effectiveness principles, and accreditation processes (such as the Quality Enhancement Plan - QEP) to develop, guide, and assess the implementation of strategic initiatives and ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory standards.
3. Skill in translating complex data into clear, compelling narratives through written reports, executive briefings, and advanced data visualizations for a wide range of audiences, from senior leadership to academic staff.
4. Ability to plan, coordinate, and lead complex, data-centric projects and strategic initiatives, managing timelines, resources, and stakeholder engagement to ensure successful completion and alignment with institutional goals.
5. Skill in developing and delivering instruction, training, and professional development workshops on topics such as data analysis, research methods, data visualization, and evidence-based decision-making to enhance data literacy across the institution.
6. Ability to query relational databases, manage large and evolving datasets, and utilize specialized software for data analysis, reporting, and visualization to support ongoing research and reporting requirements.
Education
Must possess an earned PhD or other appropriate terminal degree from a regionally accredited post-secondary institution.
ARE YOU USING YOUR EDUCATION TO QUALIFY? This position has a positive degree requirement, or education forms the basis for qualifications, you MUST submit official transcripts with the application from an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education must accredit education. Click to check accreditation.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
Additional information
The position will be an initial three-year appointment with a one to two-year probationary period, with the potential for continued reappointment for additional 3-5 year terms. This position is subject to Air University's tenure and promotion policy, this position is tenure-track eligible.
Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP): For information on how to apply as an ICTAP eligible click . To be well-qualified and exercise selection priority for this vacancy, displaced Federal employees must be rated in the "Highly Qualified" or "Best Qualified" Category on the rating criteria for this vacancy. You must submit a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty location.
Employed Annuitants (Reemployed Annuitants): Applicants in receipt of an annuity based on civilian employment in the Federal Service are subject to the DoD Policy on The Employment of Annuitants. Click for more information.
Current Federal Civilian employees may apply for temporary and term positions and if selected, a break in service may be required prior to appointment to the position.
Temporary and Term Appointments: If you are selected for a temporary or term position in the competitive service, your appointment may be extended to the maximum period allowed by law without further competition.
120-Day Register: This announcement may result in a 120-day register that may be used to fill like vacancies for 120 days after the closing date. Applicants may be referred for consideration as vacancies occur.
Selective Service: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service. For additional information, click .
Direct Deposit: All federal employees are required to have direct deposit.
Incentives: Recruitment and/or retention incentives may or may not be used.
is available to a Federal employee hired on/after 5 Nov 2016, who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rating of 30% or more. For more information, click .
If you have questions regarding this announcement and have hearing or speech difficulties click .
Applied Institutional Research and Data Analytics Strategy
As the lead for Applied Institutional Research and Data Analytics, you will drive strategic decision-making across Air University (AU). This critical role involves planning, designing, and executing comprehensive analytics studies and research proposals. You will leverage enterprise data systems and advanced programming tools-such as Python, R, and SQL-to analyze the student lifecycle, instructional methods, and institutional effectiveness. By establishing robust data governance and collection frameworks, you will ensure accurate, compliant reporting to internal leadership and external stakeholders, including the DoD, CJCS, HAF, and MAJCOM. Additionally, you will serve as a senior advisor, responsibly evaluating emerging AI-enabled tools to deliver ethical, data-informed insights directly to AU leadership.
Academic Reporting and Data Visualization
In this position, you will transform complex data into actionable insights by producing high-impact academic reports, executive briefings, and advanced data visualizations. You will manage key institutional products such as the AU Factbook, interactive dashboards, and Academic Affairs annual reports. Utilizing data storytelling principles, you will present findings to senior leaders, faculty, and students, ensuring analytic rigor aligns with AU's mission. You will also facilitate executive engagements and design enterprise-wide training workshops to foster data literacy, actively building collaborative relationships across the academic enterprise to champion evidence-based decision-making.
Strategic Integration and Institutional Effectiveness
You will play a pivotal role in strategic integration, steering Air University's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) and broader institutional initiatives. This responsibility requires integrating data across academic and administrative systems to assess performance and translate higher headquarters guidance into actionable, cross-functional processes. You will synchronize efforts across schools, centers, and staff directorates to guarantee transparency and alignment with DAF and AETC priorities. Furthermore, your project management expertise will ensure strict compliance with accrediting body standards, effectively bridging the gap between academic, operational, and analytical functions.
Instruction and Professional Development
To empower the AU enterprise, you will design and deliver comprehensive instruction and professional development programs focused on institutional analytics. By facilitating seminars, workshops, and applied training, you will build critical data literacy skills among faculty, staff, and senior leadership. Your instruction will enable personnel to confidently interpret institutional data, apply analytic tools, and integrate evidence into their planning and assessment workflows. To provide top-tier subject matter expertise, you will actively engage with emerging trends, analytical tools, and advanced methodologies in the higher education and institutional research sectors.
Institutional Service and Enterprise Support
Beyond your core analytic and instructional duties, you will provide vital institutional service and enterprise support to top-tier AU leadership, including the Commander, Vice Commander, Chief Academic Officer, and Deputy Provost. You will develop tailored data products to rapidly respond to high-level taskings and support emergent mission requirements. By coordinating multi-school efforts and executing diverse assigned duties, your analytical and advisory support will directly bolster Air University's strategic priorities and ensure operational excellence across the institution.
Requirements
Conditions of employment
- U.S. Citizenship Required
- Must be registered for Selective Service, see Legal and Regulatory Guide
- A Secret Security clearance is required.
- You may qualify for moving expenses, if authorized, it may be covered using PCS, Recruitment or Relocation Incentive in accordance with agency policy.
- Employee may be required to work other than normal duty hours, to include evenings, weekends and/or holidays
- This job is being filled by an alternative hiring process and is not in the competitive civil service. This is an Administratively Determined position in the excepted service.
- This is an excepted service appointment, if you are selected, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period OR 2-year trial period.
- Upon completion of your probationary/trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
In order to qualify, a candidate must meet the education and experience requirements described. The candidate's resume must clearly describe relevant experience, official transcripts will be required as part of the application. An interview is expected to be performed as part of the candidate hiring process.
1. In-depth knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, advanced statistical analysis, and data interpretation techniques to design, conduct, and report on complex institutional studies that inform strategic planning and decision-making.
2. Comprehensive knowledge of strategic planning, institutional effectiveness principles, and accreditation processes (such as the Quality Enhancement Plan - QEP) to develop, guide, and assess the implementation of strategic initiatives and ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory standards.
3. Skill in translating complex data into clear, compelling narratives through written reports, executive briefings, and advanced data visualizations for a wide range of audiences, from senior leadership to academic staff.
4. Ability to plan, coordinate, and lead complex, data-centric projects and strategic initiatives, managing timelines, resources, and stakeholder engagement to ensure successful completion and alignment with institutional goals.
5. Skill in developing and delivering instruction, training, and professional development workshops on topics such as data analysis, research methods, data visualization, and evidence-based decision-making to enhance data literacy across the institution.
6. Ability to query relational databases, manage large and evolving datasets, and utilize specialized software for data analysis, reporting, and visualization to support ongoing research and reporting requirements.
Education
Must possess an earned PhD or other appropriate terminal degree from a regionally accredited post-secondary institution.
ARE YOU USING YOUR EDUCATION TO QUALIFY? This position has a positive degree requirement, or education forms the basis for qualifications, you MUST submit official transcripts with the application from an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education must accredit education. Click to check accreditation.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
Additional information
The position will be an initial three-year appointment with a one to two-year probationary period, with the potential for continued reappointment for additional 3-5 year terms. This position is subject to Air University's tenure and promotion policy, this position is tenure-track eligible.
Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP): For information on how to apply as an ICTAP eligible click . To be well-qualified and exercise selection priority for this vacancy, displaced Federal employees must be rated in the "Highly Qualified" or "Best Qualified" Category on the rating criteria for this vacancy. You must submit a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty location.
Employed Annuitants (Reemployed Annuitants): Applicants in receipt of an annuity based on civilian employment in the Federal Service are subject to the DoD Policy on The Employment of Annuitants. Click for more information.
Current Federal Civilian employees may apply for temporary and term positions and if selected, a break in service may be required prior to appointment to the position.
Temporary and Term Appointments: If you are selected for a temporary or term position in the competitive service, your appointment may be extended to the maximum period allowed by law without further competition.
120-Day Register: This announcement may result in a 120-day register that may be used to fill like vacancies for 120 days after the closing date. Applicants may be referred for consideration as vacancies occur.
Selective Service: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service. For additional information, click .
Direct Deposit: All federal employees are required to have direct deposit.
Incentives: Recruitment and/or retention incentives may or may not be used.
is available to a Federal employee hired on/after 5 Nov 2016, who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rating of 30% or more. For more information, click .
If you have questions regarding this announcement and have hearing or speech difficulties click .
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