Data Analyst
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THE SELECTED CANDIDATE WILL BE OFFERED A SALARY BETWEEN $87743.00 - $100904.00
The Administration for Childrens Services (ACS) protects and promotes the safety and well-being of children and families through child welfare and juvenile justice services and community supports. ACS manages community-based supports and foster care services and provides subsidized childcare vouchers. ACS child protection staff respond to allegations of child maltreatment. In juvenile justice ACS oversees detention placement and programs for youth in the community.
The ACS division of Policy Planning and Measurement (PPM) collaborates with every ACS division to guide systems analysis and strategic systems improvement; assure quality of practice at ACS and its provider agencies; professionalize the frontline workforce; bring knowledge into practice; provide research and analytic support; and plan and develop new programs and policies.
The ChildStat Data Team (CSDU) within the Office of Research and Analytics (ORA) at ACS works closely with the Division of Child Protection (DCP) frontline management and central leadership. This unit supports the ChildStat model a management accountability and quality improvement process that combines aggregate data analysis with case dialogue to drive positive outcomes for children and families. The CSDU has developed five advanced dashboards and a SharePoint portal to enhance transparency and accountability across divisions.
Reporting to the Executive Director the Data Analyst will be responsible for:
-Top priority: Support the development of the Reporter Tool integrating all city institutions and related addresses.
-Create an automated data-matching process through algorithmic and creative problem solving. This is currently being developed but will need more support.
-Maintenance of the Reporter Tools data store. Create an annual update method for institutional addresses.
-Development of the tools data visualizations through dashboards including user-friendly filtering of spatial and data analysis.
-Maintain weekly and monthly updates to the CSDU-R datastore Sharepoint data portal.
-Develop weekly data analysis and ad-hoc reports for follow-up topics from ChildStat (deeper dive into trends and issues that surfaced during the Childstat sessions) e.g. new DHS shelter map identifying children with ACS involvement and living in shelters.
-Ongoing development refinement and standardization for the child protection performance indicators including the maintenance of SQL scripts for data querying.
-Utilizing R provide additional ad-hoc data requests and analysis for ACS central leadership includes requests outside the ChildStat scope.
-Provide key insights and data patterns to inform DCPs performance improvement plans for DCP COQI.
-Support the development and validation of child protection measures for Safe Measures Dashboard.
-Incorporate new databases to inform Child Protection performance indicators (ACS has several new databases that are not yet utilized to their full capacity to inform practice).
-Responsible for maintaining and validating the accuracy of data for assigned projects. If necessary collaborate with IT/developer consultants related to UX/UI design.
-Participation in vetting processes for new data systems platforms and/or tool development.
-Drafting process briefs or summary write-ups.
-Building and analyzing dashboards and other interactive reports.
-Perform exploratory analysis: understanding workflow and long-term data trends identify new procedures to help create or track key metrics respond to practice-related data requests and evaluate policy decisions.
ADDITIONAL INFO
Section 424-A of the New York Social Services Law requires an authorized agency to inquire whether a
candidate for employment with child-caring responsibilities has been the subject of a child abuse and
maltreatment report.
TO APPLY
Please go to or for current NYC employees and search for Job ID #717376
No phone calls faxes or personal inquiries permitted.
Note: Only candidates under consideration will be contacted.
CITY RESEARCH SCIENTIST - 21744
Qualifications :
1. For Assignment Level I (only physical biological and environmental sciences and public health) A masters degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological or environmental science or in public health.
To be appointed to Assignment Level II and above candidates must have:
1. A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological environmental or social science and one year of full-time experience in a responsible supervisory administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
2. A masters degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological environmental or social science and three years of responsible full-time research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have at least a masters degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in 2 above. Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in 1 and 2 above.
NOTE:
Probationary Period
Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.
Additional Information :
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
