Behavioral Health Data Scientist (Human Services Data Scientist)

The Department of Community and Human Services values diverse perspectives and life experiences. The Department encourages people of all backgrounds to apply including Black Indigenous and People of Color immigrants refugees women LGBTQ people with disabilities veterans and those with lived experiences.

King Countys Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS)provides equitable opportunities for people to be healthy happy and connected to community.

DCHS manages a wide range of programs and services to assist the countys most vulnerable residents. The department maintains a pro-equity focus aimed at developing the systems and standards necessary to achieve better outcomes for all county residents regardless of race gender identity or income. Within DCHS the Behavioral Health and Recovery Division (BHRD) provides high-quality behavioral health services to help ensure people with mental health and substance use disorders receive the services they need.

This position is centrally located within the Performance Measurement and Evaluation (PME) unit of the DCHS Directors Office and will work closely with a team of individuals in BHRD tasked with managing the King County Integrated Care Network (KCICN) operations and tracking provider performance. This position sits in a talented team of data scientists and evaluators who possess deep subject matter expertise in SQL R and Tableau.

DCHS has an opportunity for a Data Scientist to partner with one of the countrys largest human services departments to support the King County Integrated Care Network (KCICN). The KCICN consists of a partnership with 40 behavioral health organizations and five managed care organizations (MCOs) to drive improved behavioral health services and increase the efficiency in the use of Medicaid funds. You will be working with a team of extremely talented data scientists to develop sophisticated tracking measures and dashboards manage and utilize administrative databases create analytic tools conduct advanced quantitative analyses and prepare reports that inform the operation of the behavioral healthcare system in King County. The focus of this role will be to provide insights for data-informed program and policy decisions and test innovative approaches to tackle a variety of system policy and service delivery challenges being faced by the KCICN.

WHO MAY APPLY:This position is open to all qualified candidates who meet the minimum for this selection process will take place on or around 10/6/2025.

APPLICATION PROCESS
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WORK SCHEDULE/CONDITIONS: This is a part-time (20-24 hours weekly) Special Duty Assignment (SDA) or Term-Limited Temporary (TLT) position anticipated to end 8 months from the start date but subject to change dependent on operational need. This position is exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime. The successful candidate will work 20-24 hours per week during normal business hours (MondayFriday 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.) with consistent hours from week to week. This position is represented by Protec17.

MISSION CRITICAL POSITION STATUS:This position has been designated Non-Mission Critical. Unless otherwise directed by the County Executive department director or agency head all employees regardless of designation are expected to report to work or request leave during an emergency or inclement weather. For more detailed information please visitHR Policy County Operations During Emergency Situations and theKing County Guidelines for Workforce Management in an Emergency.

TELEWORKING REQUIREMENT:The work associated with this position will be performed or conducted through a combination of teleworking and onsite work and meetings. Employees will have access to shared workspaces at various King County facilities. Employees must reside in Washington state and within a reasonable distance to their King County worksite to respond to workplace reporting requirements.

RECRUITER:Greg Mallory

Develop Performance Measures and Dashboards

• Perform queries in Structured Query Language (SQL) to extract clean and transform data from large complex administrative databases to make tables for use in the production of performance measures dashboards and reports.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in the technical specifications for key performance metrics as well as understanding the complexities of various programs and how they are reflected in administrative data.
• Develop standardized and streamlined processes using R and Git for producing performance metrics on Tableau dashboards that can be replicatedacross BHRD bodies of work.
• Perform complex data analyses analyze trends and construct key performance measures to inform King County staff on behavioral health program and service implementation and utilization.
• Lead work with internal and external partners to design create and maintain production of key performance indicators reports dashboards and trend analyses to improve the performance of King Countys behavioral health systems.
• Work with stakeholders to use a data-driven approach to assess and evaluate high-level impacts of modifying program delivery models.

Summarize Findings and Make Meaning of Complex Data

• Develop tools to streamline key performance indicators and automation techniques to highlight actual performance change and identify any data system changes or data quality issues.
• Work independently to manipulate analyze and interpret data using appropriate statistical methods and data manipulation tools.
• Develop and maintain interactive dashboards charts reports and presentations that visually represent key findings for non-technical audiences communicating results in a way that is actionable.
• Drive towards the application of a racial equity and social justice lens across a wide variety of projects and work products.
• Conduct written and verbal presentations that share insights and recommendations with audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication.
• Participate in team work group division and department meetings.
• Respond to other data requests and perform other related duties as assigned.

• 3 or more years of demonstrated relevant work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience in finance social sciences statistics public health behavioral health or a related field with coursework in research methods and statistics and/or equivalent education and experience.

• Experience utilizing managing and analyzing data from large administrative healthcare databases.
• Knowledge of equity and social justice principles and practices; lived experience with and/or understanding of the effect of place- race- and policy & systems inequities on communities and populations.
• Extensive expertise working with large SQL databases and writing queries using Structured Query Language (SQL). Including experience in extracting matching cleaning managing and validating data.
• Skills with data management analysis and visualization tools such as SQL R SAS Python and Tableau.
• Demonstrated experience conducting statistical analyses and preparing dashboards reports and presentations for non-technical audiences.
• Ability to develop a strong understanding of the key business processes financial drivers and programmatic features reflected in the administrative data.
• Experience working with medical or behavioral health claims or encounter data.
• Superb attention to detail.
• Strong analytical thinking skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills including the ability to communicate well with diverse groups including division leaders and executive leadership internally and externally.
• Strong problem-solving and interpersonal skills including the ability to work independently and maintain collaborative relationships as part of a team.
• Experience successfully managing complex projects in detail and meeting deadlines.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATIONS KNOWLEDGE SKILLS

• Expert skills in SQL and R including developing tools and packages.
• Experience working with version control systems preferably Git/GitHub.
• Understanding of health and behavioral health measurement and management processes indicators and tools.

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