Nevada System of Higher Education

Director

• Lead implementation of data initiatives tied to NSHE’s Success by Design strategic plan
• Direct the full data lifecycle, including design, collection, analysis, reporting, and distribution
• Advise NSHE leadership, the Board of Regents, and state legislators on data-informed policy and decision-making
• Provide testimony, briefings, and policy analysis during legislative sessions and Board of Regents meetings
• Identify external funding opportunities and support institutional grant applications
• Represent NSHE in regional and national data and research networks
• Supervise departmental staff and coordinate cross-training, workload, succession, and continuity planning
• Manage budgets for externally funded data projects, including expenditures, invoices, and supporting documentation
• Direct training, onboarding, and technical support for institutional research staff across NSHE
• Update reports and build consensus around reporting content and available data
• Support systemwide tools, visualizations, dashboards, and Board reporting
• Oversee analysis and reporting for enrollment, remedial programs, diversity, faculty workload, and other institutional research requests
• Oversee Statewide Longitudinal Data System data exchange and longitudinal reporting
• Support Academic and Student Affairs and Budget and Finance data requests
• Ensure mandated Board-policy and regulatory reporting
• Negotiate and maintain data-sharing agreements and memoranda of understanding
• Ensure FERPA and applicable state-law compliance for student data privacy
• Establish data validation rules, definitions, collection standards, and data quality processes
• Administer the NSHE student data warehouse and institution file submission portal
• Develop and manage ETL lifecycles for IPEDS and other data sources
• Generate data extracts and conduct taxonomy audits
• Maintain the Institutional Research website, applications, databases, CCN, and APIS systems
• Develop and maintain Tableau dashboards and interactive applications
• Research, document, modify, and report data from NSHE warehouses, PeopleSoft, IPEDS, National Student Clearinghouse, Census, workforce, demographer, and P-12 sources

Executive Director – Institutional Research

Business Analyst

• Identify and document stakeholder business processes and recommend refinements and improvements
• Provide user support for complex problem analysis and resolution
• Design and develop reports and data extracts supporting campus business processes
• Develop technical specifications for application customizations and modifications
• Assist with quality assurance testing of application customizations, modifications, and upgrades
• Bridge functional stakeholders and System Computing Services technical areas
• Analyze the impact of client processes on application capabilities and recommend efficient solutions
• Serve as functional expert and develop technical specifications for business needs
• Communicate user needs to IT, align stakeholder expectations with resources and application capabilities, and coordinate project progression
• Serve as Project Lead for IAS on IT projects affecting supported business applications
• Help clients develop effective testing scripts and ensure applications are well tested
• Liaise between campus functional users and SCS technical staff to translate requirements into technical specifications
• Review technical specifications developed by junior staff

Executive Director – Institutional Research

Senior PeopleSoft Business Analyst