About the Role
The Division of Technology and Strategic Solutions (DoTSS) reporting team plays a critical role in providing timely and accurate operations data to stakeholders. This role will spearhead analytic, innovation, and reporting efforts across the agency to ensure efficiency, accountability, and transparency in DCWP’s many community-based and community outreach programs.
Responsibilities
- Report to the Manager of Data Analytics and assist with developing and implementing analytic, policy, and planning strategies to achieve agency-wide goals.
- Conduct routine data and statistical analysis designed to enhance understanding of agency operations and to support consumer and worker protection and financial empowerment objectives.
- Apply research and analytic best practices to evaluate program success and division performance.
- Utilize internal and web-based GIS tools and other geo-spatial data to evaluate the impact and efficacy of DCWP’s outreach and enforcement activities across a broad array of geographic and demographic sectors.
- Provide research support for special initiatives and projects.
- Coordinate with External Affairs and Communications divisions in the provision of agency data to the press, elected officials, and other interested parties.
- Consult on data sharing projects between DCWP and other governmental and non-governmental entities.
- Utilize self-authored SQL to support the agency’s reporting team on an as-needed basis, analyzing and summarizing large datasets extracted directly from DCWP’s reporting databases.
- Collaborate on the design, development, and implementation of public-facing web-based tools designed to enhance agency transparency.
Requirements
- Promoting innovative analytic approaches that provide greater insight into organizational operations and outcomes.
- Excellent quantitative and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated commitment to data-driven decision making.
- Superior written and oral communication skills and demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in public forums and to executive audiences.
- Ability to manage multiple ad-hoc intake requests and long-term projects simultaneously.
- Ability to improve data quality by identifying and resolving data quality issues.
Skills
- Data quality assessment
- Analytical techniques
- SQL
- GIS tools
- Geo-spatial data analysis
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Remote (up to 2 days per week)
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 1 year of full-time experience in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity (for Assignment Level II and above with doctorate)
- 3 years of responsible full-time research experience (for Assignment Level II and above with master's)
- 2 years of experience (for all candidates with master's)
- 2 years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for experience
Education Level
- Master's degree
- Doctorate degree
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000 to $125,000
- USD 87743 - USD 100904
About the Company
- The NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) protects and enhances the daily economic lives of New Yorkers to create thriving communities.
- DCWP licenses nearly 45,000 businesses in more than 40 industries and enforces key consumer protection and workplace laws.
- DCWP supports businesses through equitable enforcement and access to resources, protects the marketplace from predatory practices, and strives to create a culture of compliance.
- DCWP empowers consumers and working families by providing the tools and resources they need to achieve financial health and work-life balance.
- DCWP conducts research and advocates for public policy that furthers its work to support New York City’s communities.
Equal Opportunity
- 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 individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.
