Research Analyst

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Job Summary

This position is expected to be filled by promotion/reassignment and is included here to inform you of its vacancy at the University.

UBC and other post-secondary institutions are preparing to launch a survey the Canadian Campus Wellbeing Survey (CCWS) to thousands of students at public post-secondary institutions across Canada. The CCWS plays a valuable role in assessing and developing population health initiatives targeting the increasing number of young Canadians attending post-secondary institutions.

This position will contribute to the success of this multi-institutional survey project and support the logistical and technical aspects from survey deployment to the reporting of survey results.

Organizational Status

The Research Analyst is a member of the Population Physical Activity Lab and attached to the Student Experience Evaluation & Research (SEER) team within the Planning and Institutional Research Office under the general direction of the Chief Institutional Research Officer. The Research Analyst reports to and receives direction from the Project Manager (Professor Guy Faulkner) CCWS based in the School of Kinesiology on the Vancouver campus.

Work Performed

Support the technical and logistical aspects of a new student wellbeing survey the Canadian Campus Wellbeing Survey (CCWS) by:

Collecting and reporting on survey data for post-secondary institutions while ensuring consistency and comparability of results across survey years and across institutions

Designing online interactive reporting using Tableau (or similar reporting tool) to all institutions while protecting data confidentiality of students and of institutions.

Working with the Associate Director SEER and the Project Manager CCWS to address workload and resourcing issues to manage timelines and expectations of clients.

Assisting institutions with the details involved in preparing and administering the survey including email invitations to the survey email reminders building and processing student email lists.

Supporting the efficient coordination and confidential exchange of sensitive information (e.g. student email lists response rate progress reports survey results) between post-secondary institutions and UBCs PAIR Office.

Cleaning processing transforming large-scale data via statistical programming language (e.g. Python R SPSS) to create calculated variables to label variables and values to merge data files to compute dependent and independent variables to flag outliers to extract variables etc.

Using statistical programming language for archiving and replicating data processing and analysis.

Other duties as assigned.

Consequence of Error/Judgement

Data and analysis from this position will be used for decision-making at UBC as well as other partner post-secondary institutions across the province. Errors in the data and analysis can potentially have consequences in terms of strategic direction programming policy and budget and human resource decisions. The Research Analyst will be given parameters for creating analyses and will be accountable to Professor Faulkner for review.

Supervision Received

Works under direction of Professor Guy Faulkner in terms of achievement of defined objectives

Supervision Given

This role is not responsible for providing supervision.

Minimum Qualifications
University degree in relevant specialty and a minimum six years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Some positions may require a graduate degree.

- Willingness to respect diverse perspectives including perspectives in conflict with ones own

- Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing ones own awareness knowledge and skills related to equity diversity and inclusion

Preferred Qualifications

Experience using efficient automated processes to generate tailored reports out of centrally collected survey data. Experience generating and publishing Tableau dashboards (or similar reporting tool) to visualize survey data. Experience creating customized reports and dashboards as requested by end users.

Experience in running large-scale survey research in the postsecondary setting involving large-scale survey data sets and multiple survey locations or populations. Experience with survey programming and survey deployment using survey tools in French and English (e.g. Qualtrics).

Experience working with project managers and clients to manage project timeline and deliverable expectations in survey research.

Experience handling challenges unique to survey data (e.g. working with small samples nonresponse bias processing select all that apply questions cleaning survey skips). Strong theoretical and practical knowledge of designing and conducting survey research and of descriptive and inferential statistics.