Senior Strategist for Student Affairs Assessment
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · Virginia
- Role
- Policy analyst
- First seen
- Sep 20, 2026
- Closes
- Not listed
- Salary
- $100,000 - $120,000, commensurate with experience and qualifications
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Summary
The Senior Strategist for Student Affairs Assessment is a new division-wide role at the University of Virginia that sets coherent assessment strategy across Student Affairs, builds assessment capacity within departmental teams, and provides direct analytical support for strategic planning. This hybrid strategist/technologist role designs survey instruments, builds data dashboards in Power BI or Tableau, coaches departmental staff, and ensures the division speaks with unified data and standards to leadership and accreditors.
Key qualifications
- Bachelor's degree plus at least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in assessment, institutional research, program evaluation, or analytics
- Demonstrated expertise in survey methodology, instrument design, sampling, and validity/reliability practices
- Advanced proficiency with modern BI/visualization platforms (Power BI, Tableau, or similar) and ability to build governed, production-quality dashboards
- Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills, including comfort with statistical software or scripting (SPSS, R, Python, or advanced Excel)
- Track record of building assessment skills in others through training, coaching, or capacity-building initiatives
- Excellent data storytelling and stakeholder communication skills with ability to flex between technical and executive audiences
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