Job Title: ASSESSMENT OFFICER - Fordham University, Bronx, NY

Deadline Date: Open Until Filled

Starting Date: ASAP

Institution: Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to approximately 14,700 students in its four undergraduate colleges and its six graduate and professional schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in Westchester, and the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y. For more information, please visit our Web site.

Job Duties: Fordham University seeks an achievement-oriented individual, ideally with faculty experience, to coordinate an assessment program that will assist the University in attaining strategic and operational goals. The assessment officer will:

• work in an office that integrates University strategic planning, assessment, and institutional research,
• collaborate with a team of researchers with advanced skills in policy analysis, econometrics, psychology, and computer science,
• support and expand a highly decentralized assessment program and disseminate assessment results,
• initially focus on coordinating a faculty-directed assessment of student learning and subsequently on evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of administrative operations.

Qualifications: Ideally, the successful candidate will have a minimum of:
• experience as a faculty member of a university,
• experience in assessment or program evaluation in higher education,
• knowledge of the assessment requirements of a regional accrediting agency,
• advanced graduate work in a quantitatively oriented social science or education field (PhD strongly preferred),
• an outstanding academic record,
• an uncompromising commitment to accuracy and presentation quality,
• excellent writing and speaking skills,
• ability to work cooperatively with faculty members across disciplines and with senior officials in a highly decentralized environment,
• a strong desire to apply his or her intelligence and skills to achieve educational goals,
• the ability to form a broad and insightful perspective on higher education, and
• knowledge of the objectives of Jesuit education and willingness to go the extra mile to achieve them.

Salary/Benefits: Compensation is commensurate with education and experience.

To Apply: Submit letter of application and resume to:

Donald A. Gillespie, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Associate Vice President for Institutional Research
Thebaud Hall, Room 215
Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
or via e-mail

EEO/AA: Fordham University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.