Job Title: RESEARCH ASSOCIATE - El Camino College, Torrance, CA

Deadline Date: November 30, 2009

Starting Date: January 4, 2010 or later

Institution: El Camino College is a two-year public institution of higher education located in southwestern Los Angeles County. For more information, please visit our Web site.

Job Duties: Under the general supervision of the Director, Institutional Research, perform a variety of analytical functions for El Camino College and Compton Community Educational Center. Gather data and perform statistical and analytical institutional research; conduct demographic and regional analyses and survey research for various constituents at both locations. Duties may include extraction and tabulation of data from local, state and national sources; administration of student, alumni and employer surveys; and assistance with test/course prerequisite validity studies.

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES:
Provide data extractions and analytical support to El Camino College and El Camino College Compton Center in the areas of student demographics, course enrollment, academic performance and outcomes of College and Center programs and services.

Perform analyses using appropriate and sound research methods and statistical techniques. Conducts literature reviews in support of research projects.

Analyze data involving students entering college at basic skills and developmental levels in math, English and ESL. Help evaluate the effectiveness of new instructional and student support approaches in basic skills courses.

Manipulate and query specialized databases and information systems to support research.

Assists in the design of paper and online student and workforce surveys. Administer surveys and apply appropriate computer tools, and data collection techniques to draw conclusions about target populations based on survey samples.

Work with requesters to clarify their needs and optimize the utility of research results for them and for the District.

Present research-based information, analysis, and interpretation clearly and effectively, in narrative, tabular, graphical and oral modes.

Coordinate activities with the Director of Institutional Research.

Organize, prioritize, and schedule work on a multitude of research-related requests from College and Center constituents.

Perform related duties as assigned.


WORKING CONDITIONS:
--Incumbents in this position sit for extended periods of time using a personal computer with a Vision Display Terminal (VDT) screen.
--Frequent telephone use.
--Frequent independent travel between work sites at the Torrance/Crenshaw Blvd campus and Compton Center. Ability to move from one work area to another as needed.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:
This position is designated as a temporary, full-time, twelve-month classified position for 1-year, continued employment will be contingent upon grant funding.

Working hours will be Monday through Friday 7:45 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Employment is contingent upon satisfactory employment verification, fingerprint check, and tuberculosis examination. The selected candidate must provide identification and work authorization. Physical standards for this position are available for review in Human Resources.

Qualifications: Must have a bachelor's degree in a specialization involving social science, economics, higher education, social or educational research, psychology or a related field, and at least two years of experience that demonstrates the ability to conduct complex analyses. Experience at a community college preferred. Master's degree or higher may be substituted for relevant experience.

KNOWLEDGE OF:
--Research theory, methodology and applied statistics
--Survey design
--Student learning outcomes
--Technical report writing
--Personal, mainframe and client server computer systems
--State and federal accountability reporting requirements

ABILITY TO:
--Participate in analytical studies.
--Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others.
--Analyze and interpret complex data.
--Communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
--Approach problems objectively.
--Present findings and recommendations clearly.
--Exercise good judgment, diplomacy, tact and patience.
--Operate research and analytic-related computer application programs such as database systems and statistical software such as SPSS.
--Meet schedules and timeframes.
--Reason logically and creatively and apply that logic to research topics.

Salary/Benefits:
STARTING MONTHLY SALARY: $4,829. Employees contribute 7% of their earnings toward the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS).

Excellent fringe benefits include eight 32-hour workweeks during the summer.

To Apply: Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, resume and transcripts with an online CSS Classified application by November 30, 2009. If you should need igreentree computer assistance please call (310) 660-3593x3476 or visit the office Monday - Friday from 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., at El Camino College, Human Resources, Administration Building, Rm. 217, 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance, CA 90506.

Applicants with disabilities requiring special accommodations must contact Human Resources at least five (5) working days prior to the final filing date.

EEO/AA: The El Camino Community College District is committed to providing equal opportunity in which no person is subjected to discrimination on the basis of ethnic group identification, national origin, religion, age, sex, race, color, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability or retaliation.