Research Analyst - Vancouver, Canada - University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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Vancouver, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Description

Staff - Non Union

Job Category

M&P - AAPS

Job Profile

AAPS Salaried - Institutional Analysis, Level A

Job Title

Research Analyst

Department

Research Analysis | Planning and Institutional Research

Compensation Range

$5, $7,294.50 CAD Monthly

The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position.

The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position.

In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.

Posting End Date

June 30, 2023

Note:
Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above.

Job End Date

Jun 30, 2024

Guiding principle:
"Midpoint" of the hiring salary range means the individual possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience.

Hybrid working arrangements can be negotiated.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students.

Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Summary

The Canadian Campus Wellbeing Survey

) has been designed to help Canadian post-secondary institutions better support whole campus health and wellbeing. The CCWS plays a valuable role in assessing and developing population health initiatives targeting the increasing number of young Canadians attending post-secondary institutions. Implementation of the CCWS is coordinated by the Population Physical Activity Lab at UBC in collaboration with the UBC Student Experience Evaluation and Research (SEER) team. This position will contribute to the success of this multi-institutional survey project, and support the logístical and technical aspects from survey deployment to the reporting of survey results.

Organizational Status

The Research Analyst is a member of 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 the Associate Director, SEER and receives direction from the Project Manager, CCWS, based in the Population Physical Activity Lab, Vancouver campus.

Work Performed

Support the technical and logístical aspects of 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.
Cleaning, processing, transforming largescale data via statistical programming language (e.g. R, SPSS, STATA, SAS, python) 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.

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 Canada.

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 the Project Manager, CCWS, for review.

Supervision Received

Works under direction of the Associate Director, SEER, in terms of adherence to established practices and by the Project Manager, CCWS, in terms of achievement of defined objectives.

Supervision Given

This role is not responsible for providing supervision.

Qualifications:

Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline. Minimum of two years of related experience, or the equivalent combination of education and experience in quantitative research methods, quantitative data and analyses.
Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one's own.
Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing one's own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Experience using efficient, automated processes to generate tailored reports out of centrally collected survey data. Experience generating and publishing Tableau dashboards (or simi