Contract CDO, Kentucky Community and Technical College System

Title: Associate VP - Office of Research and Policy Analysis (Chief Data

02Officer) (Manager IV - Admin Leadership)

• Salary Range: $93,180 (Minimum)- $121,140 (Mid-Point) (Salary is to commensurate
• with education/experience and internal equity)

03Contract Term Length: 12 Months

Standard Hours: 37.5

04Work Location: Hybrid

FLSA Status: Exempt

05College: KCTCS System Office

Campus Location: KCTCS System Office

06Department: SO/Provost/ORPA

Total Rewards

KCTCS System Office offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work

environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity, including:

• Exceptional health care, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family
• Tuition reimbursement/waiver for you, your spouse, and dependents
• 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer
• match
• Vacation/Sick Time
• Work-Life Balance
• 9.5 Paid Holidays
• 2 Weeks Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying
• positions
• Employee Assistance Program

07Job Summary

• The Assistant Vice President for Research and Policy Analysis (AVP, ORPA)
• provides executive leadership and strategic direction for KCTCS's Office of

Research and Policy Analysis. This position oversees a multidisciplinary,

system-level team responsible for institutional research, analytics,

effectiveness, and compliance reporting, and is accountable for the integrity,

consistency, and credibility of KCTCS's enterprise data assets. The AVP ensures

that institutional data and analysis are accurate, compliant with state and

federal requirements, and strategically aligned to inform executive

decision-making, support accountability, mitigate risk, and advance student and

institutional success across the KCTCS system.

Positions with the KCTCS System Office located in Versailles, KY are

term-contract positions, with the expectancy of continuance based on

performance.

KCTCS offers a hybrid work schedule with a requirement to be onsite a minimum of

3 days per work week. Hybrid work schedules are subject to periodic review and

08may be modified or terminated at any time

• Job Duties:
• Executive leadership and decision support: Serves as a member of the Executive
• Leadership Team (ELT), providing authoritative, evidence-based insight to inform

system-level strategic and operational decision-making. Regularly supports ELT,

the President's Leadership Team (PLT), and the Board of Regents (BOR) by

interpreting complex institutional trends related to enrollment, completion,

workforce outcomes, performance-based funding, accreditation, and compliance.

The AVP frames data in an executive and strategic context, clarifying

implications, risks, tradeoffs, and opportunities, and ensures leadership

confidence in the accuracy and reliability of institutional reporting and

analytics.

Enterprise Data Strategy and External Representation: Leads and advances KCTCS's

data and analytics strategy by chairing or participating in formal and informal

cross-functional internal and external committees, task forces, and workgroups.

Examples include performance-based funding, Workforce Pell implementation,

KYSTATS' Research Agenda Committee, the Commonwealth Education Consortium data

team, and the Institutional Research/Institutional Effectiveness (IR/IE) Peer

Team. Serves as the system-level data liaison to external agencies and partners,

including the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), the National Center for

Education Statistics (IPEDS), and other state and federal entities, representing

KCTCS in matters related to data governance, reporting standards, and

accountability.

Operational Leadership and Staff Management: Directs and manages ORPA staff,

providing strategic leadership, prioritization, and performance management to

ensure timely and accurate delivery of core functions. These functions include

state and federal reporting, development of enterprise metrics and performance

indicators, stewardship of the functional components of KCTCS's data warehouse

and analytics platforms, applied research and analysis, ad hoc executive

requests, and professional leadership for college-based IR/IE staff. The AVP

ensures staff work aligns with system priorities, supports continuous

improvement, and meets high standards of quality and consistency.

Enterprise Integration and Data Governance: Serves as an enterprise connector

linking institutional strategy, data, and execution. Fosters collaboration

across academic, student affairs, finance, workforce, and administrative units

to ensure leadership questions are answered using consistent, trusted, and

well-governed data. Establishes and reinforces standards for definitions,

methodologies, and reporting practices across the system to promote alignment,

09reduce risk, and support a culture of

• evidence-based decision-making.
• Administrative and Fiscal Leadership: Provides administrative leadership for the
• Office of Research and Policy Analysis, including management of the office
• budget, resource planning, and operational oversight, ensuring effective
• stewardship of system resources in support of strategic objectives.
• Minimum Qualifications:
• Master’s degree with 3 years’ relevant work experience or equivalent.
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Doctoral degree preferred - in education administration, public policy, data
• science, information technology, or related field.
• Additional Skills Requested:
• Significant budget scope (e.g., department is currently working with Technology
• Solutions to implement a new data warehouse solution with a multi-million dollar
• price tag; responsible for metric calculations that allocates millions of

dollars to colleges (e.g., $25 million in performance funding)). Direct reports

manage additional staff- 10 direct/indirect reports.

10Employee Rights - Employee Polygraph Protection Act

• [https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/eppac.pdf]
• Equal Opportunity Employer - The Kentucky Community and Technical College System
• is an equal educational and employment opportunity institution.