Research & Innovation Team Manager

Job Title and Location

Job Title: Research & Innovation Team Manager.

Location: Boise, ID​.

Job Announcement with application details can be found here.

Job Summary

​Reporting to the Director of eCampus Learning and Instructional Design, this key position promotes online student success and retention across fully online courses and programs. This person is responsible for managing educational research related to online course improvement projects, and the planning and deployment of adoption/change management strategies to ensure the successful implementation of learning analytics and other educational technologies/innovations within fully online courses and programs. This position will also build actionable dashboards and analytics processes to support online student success and retention, as well as to leverage educational research and technologies to enable and improve online teaching and learning.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in relevant field.
• 5 years combined experience/competence in:
  • Developing/analyzing data across multiple data sets; use data science methods to identify, extract, clean, analyze, & present; create learning analytics dashboards and reports, preferably in higher education setting.
  • Thorough understanding of/experience in conducting educational research and applying statistical data analysis methods.
  • Planning and applying change management/adoption strategies to ensure the effective implementation of emerging/instructional technology initiatives.
  • Knowledge and application of instructional design and/or curriculum development, preferably for online courses/programs.
• 1 year experience supervising/leading project teams/staff with a proven track record setting and meeting deadlines and benchmarks in a complex, fast-paced environment.
• Proficient experience with:
  • Data analysis software (SAS, SPSS, R, Nvivo, Stata).
  • Advanced statistical techniques (multivariate analysis, time-series analysis, machine learning).
  • Solid relational databases skills; ability to navigate/extract data & read/write SQL code.
  • LMS (preferably Blackboard), MS Office, Web conferencing, Data visualization software

Preferred Qualifications

• Doctorate or master’s degree in educational technology, instructional design, adult learning, educational data sciences, or related field from an accredited college/university.
• 2 years or more experience supervising & leading project teams/staff.

Application Deadline

Review of applicants will begin September 6, 2016 and will continue until the position is filled. Applications received after that point may be considered if the position is not filled from the finalist pool. Written materials submitted with spelling or grammatical issues will receive less consideration.