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Open Date 06/12/2024 Requisition Number PRN38848B Job Title OCHE Assistant Commissioner Working Title OCHE Assistant Commissioner Job Grade H FLSA Code Executive Patient Sensitive Job Code? No Standard Hours per Week 40 Full Time or Part Time? Full Time Shift Day Work Schedule Summary

Hybrid: Monday

• Friday 8 a.m.

• 5 p.m.

VP Area President Department 01379 - USHE Comissioner Location Office of the Commissioner

• Downtown SLC City Salt Lake City, UT Type of Recruitment External Posting Pay Rate Range $121,592 to $125,219 (Depends On Experience) Close Date Open Until Filled Yes Job Summary

Job Summary:

In coordination with ORDS management, the Assistant Commissioner, User Experience (AC, UX) constructs, reviews, and optimizes the UX strategy for the Office of Research and Data Science (ORDS).

The AC, UX ensures the value and successful implementation of the UX strategy to ORDS, stakeholders, and customers. In addition, the AC, and UX manage, develop, and oversee direct reports (e.g., personnel and assets). This position receives little technical support from management. The Assistant Commissioner must have a strong grasp of data-visualizing technologies, front-end development, peer review, customer needs, content management, user interfaces/user experience, data governance, and data quality and control frameworks. This position requires effective integration of customer communication and highly technical content. The incumbent must have a strong eye for design, effective visual communication, and branding.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Manage the ORDS' UX strategy

• Manage personnel

• Manage the UDRC website assets

• Manage UX assets (e.g., Tableau Server)

• Peer review ORDS end products

• Project manage new UX initiatives

• Building user-friendly and mobile-friendly data narratives with Tableau, CSS, HTML5

• Guiding and mentoring researchers and reporting staff on best practices for communicating their technical work to a broader audience

• Researching new methods and technology to communicate research and reports effectively with ORDS customers and presenting proposals to management

• Web page prototyping in Figma and/or Adobe XD

• Conducting usability surveys with ORDS customers and providing website updates and accessibility recommendations to management

• Collecting user data through Google Analytics

• Maintaining and developing changes to ORDS design and style guides

• Providing effective and communicative data visualizations for customers in conjunction with staff researchers, while also training researchers on data visualization best practices

• Facilitating collaboration between stakeholders and the ORDS to increase external use of ORDS data and data products

• Drafting and finalizing website copy, while ensuring consistency and integration of messaging for internal and external audiences

• Working with ORDS researchers/and reporters to edit research and report products for accessibility and readability

• Presenting to a varied group of stakeholders, including executive and legislative branches, data-contributing agencies, and external stakeholders

• Manage the data quality control and assurance work processes

• Ensure data is aligned with UDRC and USHE policies and practices

• Maintain data dictionaries and glossaries

• Ability to perform all other tasks as assigned

Skills:

• Experience with a formal peer review process as a reviewer and submitter

• Experience writing and developing content for data narratives and websites

• Experience designing effective interactive data visualizations

• Ability to maintain the highest degree of confidentiality

• Experience with front-end code and website content management

• Ability to communicate effectively, including communicating complex data and analysis, to audiences with limited knowledge of research and statistical methods

• Knowledge and skill in data analysis and statistics and their application

• Knowledge and skill in data reporting

• Ability to interact with users through Google Analytics and surveys to improve the website/data narrative experience

• A commitment to continuously improving processes to

• increase efficiency and effectiveness

• Strong workload management skills and abilities, with an emphasis on the ability to prioritize and attention to detail

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to write highly technical and significantly less technical documents, presentations, and research papers

• Experience designing and publishing interactive data visualizations, specifically with Tableau, for desktop and mobile Experience gathering user feedback

• High competency with front-end technologies, such as HTML5, CSS, Tableau, JavaScript

• Experience with data cleansing processes and applications (SQL or Tableau Prep)

• Experience in a professional communication setting

• Experience with website version control and backup

• Experience working effectively and meeting deadlines without close supervision

• Experience with utilizing GitHub

• Experience with data governance software

• Experience with data governance frameworks

• Experience with data quality control and assurance frameworks

Disclaimer:

OCHE has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and primary duties have been included. It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills, and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and OCHE reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as OCHE may deem appropriate.

Minimum Qualifications

Qualifications & Education:

• Master's degree or equivalency (one year of education can be substituted for two years of related work experience).
• 8 years experience in a related field

Preferences

Preferences:

Preference may be given to applicants who meet the minimum qualifications of the position and one or more of the skills below:

• Graduate Education; PhD (one year of graduate education experience is equivalent to one year of work experience)
• Management experience

Type Benefited Staff Special Instructions Summary Additional Information

The University is a participating employer with Utah Retirement Systems ("URS"). Eligible new hires with prior URS service, may elect to enroll in URS if they make the election before they become eligible for retirement (usually the first day of work). Contact Human Resources at (801) 581-7447 for information. Individuals who previously retired and are receiving monthly retirement benefits from URS are subject to URS' post-retirement rules and restrictions. Please contact Utah Retirement Systems at (801) 366-7770 or (800) 695-4877 or University Human Resource Management at (801) 581-7447 if you have questions regarding the post-retirement rules.

This position may require the successful completion of a criminal background check and/or drug screen.

The University of Utah values candidates who have experience working in settings with students and patients from all backgrounds and possess a strong commitment to improving access to higher education and quality healthcare for historically underrepresented students and patients.

All qualified individuals are strongly encouraged to apply. Veterans' preference is extended to qualified applicants, upon request and consistent with University policy and Utah state law. Upon request, reasonable accommodations in the application process will be provided to individuals with disabilities.

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Applicant Documents

Required Documents

• Resume

Optional Documents

• Cover Letter

• Appropriate discharge document (such as a DD-214 - Member Copy 4)

• Veteran Only

• Call 801.581.2169

• Addendum to the University of Utah

• Veteran Only

• Call 801.581.2169 after submission