The Achievement and Assessment Institute (AAI) is a designated research center with an annual budget of $50M, over 340 full time staff and 153 temporary staff (GRAs, Students, and Temps).

The Achievement & Assessment Institute (AAI) at the University of Kansas exists to improve the performance of children, adults, and organizations throughout local, state, and national communities. AAI currently includes ten centers, which represent a diversity of services and programs and supports faculty research, both in the School of Education and Human Sciences and other academic units. AAI centers are strongly mission driven, but also are significantly more entrepreneurial than a typical university research center. The AAI mission is accomplished in five primary ways.

• Partnering with local, state, national, and global communities to apply scholarship to implement programs with direct public impact.
• Developing and publishing generalizable knowledge that allows leveraging of the solutions developed so that the success of the first part of our mission is magnified.
• Providing faculty with the support and encouragement they need to generate resources for research and development in support of enhanced achievement of individuals and organizations.
• Providing students with experiences vital to their professional development.
• The Institute and its centers also provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to obtain valuable research and on-the-job employment experience while completing coursework.

The Financial Analyst will be a crucial member of the AAI Central Office team. This position will assist the AAI Associate Director for Finance and Administration to carry out the mission of the Institute. Due to the large number and complexity of AAI’s research projects, we are looking for a strong analyst to work collaboratively with, and to provide support to the Financial Analyst Intermediate and Centers within the Institute.