The Research Associate will provide primary data support for the University's institutional research efforts by developing and managing large datasets to support analyses and reports conducted by institutional research professional staff. Additional duties include: interprets and writes summaries of results. Responsibilities include developing procedures to clean, recode, and merge multiple longitudinal datasets from internal and external sources and calculate intermediate statistics on results; develops and maintains student retention datasets; creates institutional research data files for use in the Banner Operational Data Store (ODS) and Business Intelligence Software; conducts other data queries as assigned.