Unit Assessment Manager

Job Posting Title:

Unit Assessment Manager ----

Hiring Department:

Academic Affairs ----

Position Open To:

All Applicants ----

Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40 ----

FLSA Status:

Exempt from FLSA ----

Earliest Start Date:

Nov 16, 2026 ----

Position Duration:

Expected to Continue ----

Location:

UT MAIN CAMPUS ----

Job Details:

General Notes

Must be eligible to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer without sponsorship.

Purpose

Reporting to the Director of Accreditation and Assessment, the Unit Assessment Manager manages the operational functions required for outcomes assessment, continuous improvement, and institutional-effectiveness documentation across service, support, and administrative units.

The position supports the Director of Accreditation and Assessment in ensuring institutional readiness for SACSCOC expectations related to service, support, and administrative unit assessment and institutional effectiveness. It provides operational leadership, analytical expertise, and cross-university coordination for outcomes development, unit assessment, and continuous improvement across these units.

The Unit Assessment Manager advances a data-informed culture of institutional effectiveness by supporting units in mission and outcomes alignment, measurable outcomes development, assessment planning, service improvement, and evidence-based decision-making.

This role serves as the campus-wide operational lead for service, support, and administrative unit assessment workflows and strengthens UT Austin's readiness for applicable federal, state, and SACSCOC expectations related to unit assessment and institutional effectiveness. The position supports all relevant SACSCOC Principles of Accreditation in which unit outcomes and effectiveness are implicated; responsibilities are not restricted to any single section of the SACSCOC Principles. While the Director of Accreditation and Assessment defines institutional strategy, policy interpretation, and compliance direction, the Unit Assessment Manager manages the operational functions that implement those priorities.

Responsibilities

Unit Assessment Planning and Outcomes Alignment

• •Coordinate institution-wide workflows for service, support, and administrative unit outcomes development, alignment, assessment, and revision.
• •Lead unit assessment planning initiatives that support SACSCOC compliance, the multi-year unit assessment cycle, and other institutional-effectiveness priorities.
• •Manage timelines, templates, process maps, and institutional repositories for unit assessment documentation.
• •Conduct quality reviews of unit outcomes, assessment plans, and reports to ensure quality, continuous improvement, clarity, measurability, alignment, and compliance with applicable accreditation expectations and obligations.
• •Support service, support, and administrative units in aligning outcomes and assessment methods with unit missions, institutional priorities, and service improvement goals.

Assessment Operations and Continuous Improvement

• •Coordinate and support the full cycle of outcomes assessment for service, support, and administrative units, including planning, data collection, analysis, and documentation.
• •Oversee unit assessment workflows in the institutional assessment management system, including training, user support, data integrity, and reporting functionality, in coordination with other assessment managers and technology partners.
• •Provide guidance on assessment methods, data collection strategies, rubric design, and evidence-based continuous improvement efforts for staff, unit leaders, and administrators.
• •Produce summaries, dashboards, and analytic reports that distill assessment findings for internal and external stakeholders.
• •Ensure that unit assessment documentation aligns with applicable federal, state, and SACSCOC expectations and standards related to service, support, and administrative unit outcomes and institutional effectiveness.
• •Document the use of results for continuous improvement, consistent with SACSCOC expectations for unit assessment and institutional effectiveness; provide individualized feedback and follow up on unit improvement actions.

Data, Evidence, and Analytics Infrastructure

• •Manage technical platforms and workflows for assessment-related data collection, reporting, visualization, and archival storage.
• •Collaborate with Institutional Reporting, Data to Insights, and other partners to maintain consistency between institutional data definitions, coding, and unit assessment documentation.
• •Develop crosswalks, evidence bundles, and structured analytic reports that support accreditation submissions, unit review, and institutional planning.
• •When appropriate, integrate service and operational data, information visualization, and data-science tools into unit assessment processes.

Staff and Unit Training and Capacity Building

• •Design and deliver workshops, webinars, seminars, consultations, and training curricula on unit outcomes and assessment; mission and outcomes alignment; data interpretation and use of evidence; continuous improvement methods; and service quality and institutional effectiveness.
• •Develop and maintain resource guides, templates, exemplars, online modules, and self-service tools that support unit-level capacity.
• •Serve as an operational liaison to service, support, and administrative units engaged in assessment work.

Scholarship, External Visibility, and Special Projects

• •Contribute, as time permits, to research articles, white papers, and conference presentations that highlight UT Austin's unit assessment and institutional-effectiveness work.
• •Support grant-writing and external-funding efforts, as time permits, related to unit assessment, service improvement, or institutional effectiveness.
• •Participate in Director of Accreditation and Assessment-led strategic initiatives related to institutional effectiveness, accreditation readiness, policy alignment, and institutional improvement.

Required Qualifications

• •Bachelor's degree in higher education administration, learning sciences, curriculum and instruction, assessment, program evaluation, or a closely related field.
• •Demonstrated experience in service, support, or administrative unit assessment, institutional effectiveness, organizational evaluation, or program evaluation.
• •Experience coordinating complex institutional processes and managing qualitative and quantitative data.
• •Strong analytical and writing skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• •Ability to train, consult, and communicate effectively with staff, unit leaders, and administrators.
• •Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a large, complex academic environment.

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

• •Master's, EdD, or PhD in higher education administration, learning sciences, curriculum and instruction, assessment, program evaluation, or a closely related field.
• •Experience working within a research-intensive university.
• •Experience managing assessment or accreditation software platforms.
• •Experience designing and implementing outcomes assessment across varied service, support, or administrative units.
• •Experience with Watermark, Tableau, Power BI, R, SPSS, survey tools, or comparable platforms.
• •A record of presentations, publications, or grant activity related to unit outcomes, assessment, or institutional effectiveness.

Salary Range

$78,000 + depending on qualifications

Working Conditions

• •Full-time on-campus, in-person work.
• •Standard office environment requires extensive computer-based work.
• •Occasional evening or weekend hours during major deadlines, including accreditation submissions and institutional reporting cycles.

Required Materials

• •Resume/CV
• •3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
• •Letter of interest

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