Institutional Researcher

4 weeks ago


Durban, South Africa TalentLink Full time
  • Collecting data about the performance of the institution.
  • Collecting data about the institution's internal and external environment. Collects, develops, analyses, and communicates institutional data and other information to constituents throughout the university, to support and enhance informed decision-making, problem-solving, strategic planning, policy development, and institutional self-assessment.
  • Develops and implements processes for collecting, linking, and analyzing data from a variety of sources.
  • Analyzing and interpreting the collected data on a project, ongoing and on an ad hoc basis.
  • Setting up and maintaining a database to store information. (Big Data).
  • Data management is important because the data the researcher collects for and for the organization is a very valuable resource and must be stored effectively and efficiently.
  • Extract information from the database to create meaningful inferences from data.
  • Disseminating information to internal and external stakeholders in order to support planning set policies and make academic and management decisions.
  • Planning operational, budgetary, and strategic planning in which institutional research collaborates with other units at the institution or related organizations.
  • Formative and summative evaluation processes conducted at an institution use IR data and analysis for planning and decision making purposes.


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