Description

Position Overview

The Community Impact Data Manager provides leadership through the Office of Community Impact in coordinating, integrating, and communicating data that demonstrates KU's community engagement and outreach impact. This role develops and manages multimodal and cross‑system data collection strategies; supports qualitative and quantitative analysis; and generates reports for institutional processes, including the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification. The position collaborates closely with campus and community partners to track impact metrics, promote qualitative summaries, maintain shared data systems, and support interfaces such as the Engaged KU Community Toolkit and Community Check Box. The Data Manager also strengthens campuswide coordination by streamlining partner agreements, supporting community impact liaisons, maintaining online platforms, and providing technical assistance to enhance consistent documentation and reporting of community engagement across units and the institution. Additional responsibilities include supporting office operations and special projects for the Vice Provost and Associate Vice Provost for Community Impact to advance the goals of the office and institution.

Job Description

Community Impact Data Collection and Reporting (35%)

• The Community Impact Data Manager will create and develop data collection information from academic, affiliate and administrative units that can offer timely record of scholarly, community engaged, and service support impact for KU's campus and outreach initiatives connected to academic research and community engagement.
• Provide support in data collection, analysis, and reporting, including supporting the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification process.
• Collaborate with community and campus partners to track community impact metrics, support the development and implementation of data collection and reporting tools, including surveys.
• Provide qualitative and quantitative data translation support to systematically examine and evaluate community engagement activities facilitated across the university and with community partners.
• Collect and report the impact of the community engagement efforts with and across initiatives for OCI annual reports, annual strategic alignment meetings, institutional reporting, and interface with university communications to share data-driven campus impact stories.
• Develop and support data for reporting for applications, reports, manuscripts, award applications, and other technical reports, publications, or presentations.

Multimodal Data Collection: Community Impact Data Interface (35%)

• Develop and maintain integrated approaches for pulling data across disparate systems, coordinating data collection, analysis, and reporting across multiple platforms.
• Develop and maintain community engagement data interfaces that can be utilized in the Community Toolkit and Community Check Box Evaluation System. Create and implement interface tools for campus partners to engage and contribute to the Engaged KU Toolkit to build capacity and resources to demonstrate contributions to community impact.
• Translate the interdisciplinary needs and goals of the Community Impact office to aid in developing content for the Engaged KU Toolkit and Check Box Systems to provide accountability to the campus and the community by documenting and providing community impact metrics for all initiatives in the Office of Community Impact.
• Develop and implement a multimodal community impact template to collect quantitative, qualitative, and video engaged storytelling pathways for academic and staff units to tell their impact stories. Analyze and identify trends in this data to interface in an integrated data repository and dashboard.
• Work with campus and community partners to curate the multimodal community impact story, including by coordinating the development of qualitative community content development that may take the form of videos, blogs, storytelling, interface with KU Library academic unit librarians, community members, and AIRE to track our community impact.
• Maintain and support community toolkit data, narrative interface and data collection integration across tracking systems (e.g., Community Check Box, institutional data systems) through a data repository and dashboard.
• Generate data reports for senior leadership from the Engaged KU Community Check Box and other data systems. Work with the OCI and across campus partners to identify academic and administrative unit metrics that can be aligned with the community impact reporting across data systems to support unit-level and institutional tracking of the community engagement efforts with and across initiatives.
• Develop, implement, and maintain dashboard and mapping systems that can be used to support data reporting and visualization.
• Provide technical assistance and training to campus and community partners on use of data and reporting systems.
• Develop and maintain the office website interface and other online tools, interfaces, and platforms.

Campus Liaison Support and Community Engagement (20%)

• Facilitate, monitor, and coordinate office activity across academic, administrative, research, and affiliate partners on campus, including with Community Impact Liaisons in community, academic and professional units who are charged to record and track community impact efforts via the Engaged KU Community Check Box.
• Lead and coordinate the development, execution, and tracking of partner agreements, including data agreements and managing community partner databases, by serving as the primary liaison across campus units. Streamline processes, monitor partnership activity, and ensure consistent documentation to advance institutional community engagement goals.
• Develop and implement standards and protocols for documenting, tracking, and reporting community engagement processes within the Office of Community Impact and with units across the institution (e.g., monitor partnership agreements, streamline reporting requirements from community partners across multiple KU units).
• Support connections across multiple community engagement research and outreach endeavors to enhance the capacity of university partners to meaningfully engage with communities.
• Lead and support community engagement coordination via Outlook, Teams, and Zoom interface.
• Provide technical support to university and community partners to foster authentic engagement with the CI office.

Other Duties as Assigned (10%)

• Perform additional duties to support the Vice Provost, Associate Vice Provost, and the office, as necessary.

Required Qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree with expertise areas that are connected to general studies. social justice, cultural studies, organizational management, program management, education, business and/or related field.
2. At least three (3) years of experience in supporting community-engaged work that connects to access, impact, and belonging across populations and geographic locations (e.g., urban, rural, etc.).
3. Three (3) years or more experience in project and data coordination.
4. Experience working with a wide-range of individuals and groups as evidenced by application materials.
5. Demonstrated written communication skills, interpersonal skills, and organizational skills as evidenced by application materials and submitted samples.
6. Demonstrated work experience that required creative & approaches for data collection, analysis, and visualizations to document and report on community stories, experiences, and data metrics as evidenced by application materials and submitted samples.
7. Five (5) years of experience using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel and other relevant software solutions.

Additional Candidate Instruction

A complete application includes:

1. Resume or curriculum vitae
2. Cover letter addressing how the required and, if applicable, preferred qualifications are met.
3. Contact information of 3 professional references.
4. A professional writing sample and data visualization sample (e.g., report, infographic, community product).

Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Application review begins Friday, March 20th. For consideration, please apply no later than Thursday, March 19th.

Disclaimer

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