Community Impact Data Manager

Office of Community Impact

Position Overview
The Community Impact Data Manager provides
leadership through the Office of Community Impact in coordinating, integrating, and communicating data that demonstrates KU’s community
engagement and outreach impact. This role develops and manages multimodal and cross-system data collection strategies; supports qualitative
and quantitative analysis; and generates reports for institutional processes, including the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification.
The position collaborates closely with campus and community partners to track impact metrics, promote qualitative summaries, maintain shared
data systems, and support interfaces such as the Engaged KU Community Toolkit and Community Check Box. The Data Manager also strengthens
campuswide coordination by streamlining partner agreements, supporting community impact liaisons, maintaining online platforms, and
providing technical assistance to enhance consistent documentation and reporting of community engagement across units and the institution.
Additional responsibilities include supporting office operations and special projects for the Vice Provost and Associate Vice Provost for
Community Impact to advance the goals of the office and institution.

Job Description
Community
Impact Data Collection and Reporting (35%)

• The Community Impact Data Manager will create and develop data collection
  information from academic, affiliate and administrative units that can offer timely record of scholarly, community engaged, and service
  support impact for KU’s campus and outreach initiatives connected to academic research and community engagement.
• Provide support in
  data collection, analysis, and reporting, including supporting the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification process.
• Collaborate
  with community and campus partners to track community impact metrics, support the development and implementation of data collection and
  reporting tools, including surveys.
• Provide qualitative and quantitative data translation support to systematically examine and
  evaluate community engagement activities facilitated across the university and with community partners.
• Collect and report the
  impact of the community engagement efforts with and across initiatives for OCI annual reports, annual strategic alignment meetings,
  institutional reporting, and interface with university communications to share data-driven campus impact stories.
• Develop and
  support data for reporting for applications, reports, manuscripts, award applications, and other technical reports, publications, or
  presentations.

Multimodal Data Collection: Community Impact Data Interface (35%)

• Develop and
  maintain integrated approaches for pulling data across disparate systems, coordinating data collection, analysis, and reporting across
  multiple platforms.
• Develop and maintain community engagement data interfaces that can be utilized in the Community Toolkit and
  Community Check Box Evaluation System. Create and implement interface tools for campus partners to engage and contribute to the Engaged KU
  Toolkit to build capacity and resources to demonstrate contributions to community impact.
• Translate the interdisciplinary needs and
  goals of the Community Impact office to aid in developing content for the Engaged KU Toolkit and Check Box Systems to provide accountability
  to the campus and the community by documenting and providing community impact metrics for all initiatives in the Office of Community
  Impact.
• Develop and implement a multimodal community impact template to collect quantitative, qualitative, and video engaged
  storytelling pathways for academic and staff units to tell their impact stories. Analyze and identify trends in this data to interface in an
  integrated data repository and dashboard.
• Work with campus and community partners to curate the multimodal community impact story,
  including by coordinating the development of qualitative community content development that may take the form of videos, blogs,
  storytelling, interface with KU Library academic unit librarians, community members, and AIRE to track our community
  impact.
• Maintain and support community toolkit data, narrative interface and data collection integration across tracking systems
  (e.g., Community Check Box, institutional data systems) through a data repository and dashboard.
• Generate data reports for senior
  leadership from the Engaged KU Community Check Box and other data systems. Work with the OCI and across campus partners to identify academic
  and administrative unit metrics that can be aligned with the community impact reporting across data systems to support unit-level and
  institutional tracking of the community engagement efforts with and across initiatives.
• Develop, implement, and maintain dashboard
  and mapping systems that can be used to support data reporting and visualization.
• Provide technical assistance and training to
  campus and community partners on use of data and reporting systems.
• Develop and maintain the office website interface and other
  online tools, interfaces, and platforms.

Campus Liaison Support and Community Engagement
(20%)

• Facilitate, monitor, and coordinate office activity across academic, administrative, research, and affiliate
  partners on campus, including with Community Impact Liaisons in community, academic and professional units who are charged to record and
  track community impact efforts via the Engaged KU Community Check Box.
• Lead and coordinate the development, execution, and tracking
  of partner agreements, including data agreements and managing community partner databases, by serving as the primary liaison across campus
  units. Streamline processes, monitor partnership activity, and ensure consistent documentation to advance institutional community engagement
  goals.
• Develop and implement standards and protocols for documenting, tracking, and reporting community engagement processes within
  the Office of Community Impact and with units across the institution (e.g., monitor partnership agreements, streamline reporting
  requirements from community partners across multiple KU units).
• Support connections across multiple community engagement research
  and outreach endeavors to enhance the capacity of university partners to meaningfully engage with communities.
• Lead and support
  community engagement coordination via Outlook, Teams, and Zoom interface.
• Provide technical support to university and community
  partners to foster authentic engagement with the CI office.

Other Duties as Assigned (10%)

• Perform
  additional duties to support the Vice Provost, Associate Vice Provost, and the office, as necessary.

Required
Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s degree with expertise areas that are connected to general studies. social justice, cultural
   studies, organizational management, program management, education, business and/or related field.
2. At least three (3) years of
   experience in supporting community-engaged work that connects to access, impact, and belonging across populations and geographic locations
   (e.g., urban, rural, etc.).
3. Three (3) years or more experience in project and data coordination.
4. Experience working with a
   wide-range of individuals and groups as evidenced by application materials.
5. Demonstrated written communication skills, interpersonal
   skills, and organizational skills as evidenced by application materials and submitted samples.
6. Demonstrated work experience that
   required creative & approaches for data collection, analysis, and visualizations to document and report on community stories, experiences,
   and data metrics as evidenced by application materials and submitted samples.
7. Five (5) years of experience using Microsoft Word,
   PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel and other relevant software solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Three (3) years
   experience with data management, analysis or storage systems (e.g., Excel, REDCAP, Qualtrics).
2. Three (3) years experience with
   developing and maintaining campus and/or community partnerships and engagement.
3. Three (3) years experience engaging administrators
   and community members across various ranks with professionalism and confidence as evidenced by application materials.
4. Work
   experience requiring the ability to multi-task with intention under deadline as evidenced by application materials.
5. Three (3) years
   experience with digital media related to social media platforms and community interface, including experience with graphic design platforms
   (e.g., Canva, InDesign).
6. Three (3) years experience translating and synthesizing complex ideas into digestible concepts for campus
   and community-friendly products for communicating and understanding impact as evidenced by application materials.

Contact
Information to Applicants
Mercedes Bounthapanya;
Office of Community Impact;
[email protected];
785 864 3006

Additional Candidate
Instruction
A complete application includes:

1. Resume or curriculum vitae
2. Cover letter addressing how the
   required and, if applicable, preferred qualifications are met.
3. Contact information of 3 professional references.
4. A
   professional writing sample and data visualization sample (e.g., report, infographic, community product).

Incomplete
applications will not be considered.

Application review begins Friday, March 20th. For consideration, please apply
no later than Thursday, March 19th.

Advertised Salary Range: $61,700-$72,000

Application Review Begins: 20-Mar-2026

Anticipated Start Date: 20-Apr-2026

Primary Campus
University of Kansas Lawrence Campus

FTE: 1.0

Reg/Temp: Regular

FLSA Status
Administrative

Employee Class:
U-Unclassified Professional Staff

Work Schedule
M-F 8am – 5pm. This position may involve some hours outside
of the typical workday, including attendance at occasional evening or weekend events.

Job Family
Administrative/Management-KUL

Work Location Assignment
Hybrid

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