Assessment & Evaluation

Demonstrating an ability to effectively track, monitor, assess, evaluate, and improve program outcomes, partnerships, and student learning and success.

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Ability to identify and map department and campus goals and processes for assessment of student learning, student success, and institutional effectiveness.
Knowledge of and engagement with national initiatives and associations that support assessment and program improvement in higher education.
Ability to identify metrics, models, tools (i.e., interview protocols, pre/post questionnaires, surveys, rubrics) and departmental/campus resources that are most appropriate (i.e., pragmatic) to achieve the goals of an assessment plan for community engagement.
Ability to create or articulate an assessment plan that outlines the scope, purpose, participants, methods of analysis, and strategies for communication/ dissemination of data to stakeholders.
Ability to design an assessment plan that tracks and monitors outcomes and impacts over time on various constituencies including students, faculty, staff, the institution, community partner organizations, and community identified goals.

Ability to to convene and facilitate a committee of key stakeholders to inform assessment design in order to track the most salient points of data for community-campus collaborations
Ability to track participation rates of students, staff, faculty, and community partners to report on who is doing what and towards what goal area.
Ability to identify key student learning outcomes and conduct assessment of student learning and civic growth/development (including but not limited to self-report surveys) within and across engagement activities.
Ability to articulate the inputs, outputs, outcomes and impacts of community partnerships, from single partners to multidimensional partnerships, in ways that engage partners in the evaluation process
Ability to track faculty involvement and advancement in engaged scholarship activities (including engaged teaching and research, professional development, dissemination/outreach, or other engaged initiatives)
Ability to capture a comprehensive portrait of the level and variety of civic- or community-related activities across an institution

Ability to establish measurable and observable objectives/benchmarks to determine the extent to which activities/programs are effective in achieving stated goals and implement continuous improvement.
Ability to guide or support others (e.g. faculty or community collaborators) as they design and implement assessment for their engagement programs.

Ability to prepare and effectively communicate assessment findings to a variety of the institution’s internal and external audiences and stakeholders
Ability to work with others to create dashboards or monitoring systems to track and share outcomes and impacts of community engagement initiatives in a transparent way for various stakeholders
Ability to translate insights gained from assessments and evaluation to be used in strategic planning, funding requests, and institutional/programmatic decision-making
Ability to communicate and collaborate with other campus/institutional units engaged in assessment in order to develop measures to track and evaluate the institution’s progress to advance or institutionalize civic and community engagement.
Ability to demonstrate how measurements connect community engagement to one or more important and specific strategic goals of the institution.

Ability to develop or utilize data tracking or assessment that takes into account diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) indicators/measures in order to gauge the progress of DEI efforts in the unit’s engagement programs (including, for example, assessments of equity in representation/participation, access, resource distribution, outcomes/impacts, or equity-mindedness).
Ability to assess student learning and success during college (e.g., persistence rates, graduation rates, DFW rates, and other metrics important to the leadership of your institution) through community engagement as it relates to diversity, equity, and inclusion
Ability to partner with, or contribute to, broader institutional assessment efforts on campus designed to advance articulated DEI goals.

Willingness to address and confront the tensions of using data on community engagement as a public relations or public affairs tool (i.e., awareness of critical notions of assessment and willingness to reflection on the tensions between the campus assessment/measurement norms and processes and the practices of inclusive assessment and evaluation)

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Self-diagnostic of competencies in program administration: At the beginning of the application process, individuals will be expected to complete a self-assessment in which they reflect on their own knowledge, skills, and aptitudes related to the key competencies in the core competency area. The self-evaluation is designed to help applicants decide whether they are ready to continue through the application process or whether they will want to pursue additional training, professional development opportunities, or practical experiences before continuing.
Curriculum vitae/resumé: Upload a current resume or curriculum vitae (CV)
Brief description of professional development experiences in assessment and evaluation: Briefly list professional learning opportunities (formal and informal) in which you have participated over the last 3 years that are relevant to the core competency area.
Logic model or road map of assessment: Provide a logic model or other graphic representation (“road map”) that helps articulate or guide your approach to tracking, assessment, and evaluation of civic and community engagement at your institution.
Upload of artifacts: Upload and annotate materials that you feel illustrate your experiences and competency in program administration (e.g., assessments, presentations, event or program descriptions, resource provided to stakeholders, etc.)
Self-Assessment of personal strengths and areas for growth & action plan: Briefly describe what they feel are your greatest strengths, or competencies, in assessment and evaluation as well as where you feel there is a need for personal or professional growth. Follow this by sharing a brief personal action plan to outline your trajectory of future professional learning related to assessment and evaluation.