Data Analyst

This position is located in the Workforce Investment Council (WIC), under the administrative oversight of the Deputy Mayor for Education (DME). The mission of the Office of Workforce Investment Council is to oversee, plan, develop, and administer programs of comprehensive employment, employment related, and unemployment compensation services and directly deliver the full array of services to the public.

Incumbent is responsible for planning and administering systems for the acquisition, storage, retrieval, analysis, reporting, and practical application of data. The work involves identifying, extracting, integrating, and analyzing multiple, complex data and data sets in support of workforce development projects, initiatives, and tasks. Incumbent provides data visualization support, and various data analysis services that include, but are not limited to, data mining, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, and report development. The work frequently includes cleaning, transforming, validating, or modeling data with the purpose of understanding, or making conclusions from the data for decision-making purposes.

Provides technical expertise on data analysis, business intelligence tools, data visualization and systems analysis and design. Interprets data; analyzes results, using statistical techniques; and provides ongoing reports for the Executive and Deputy Executive Director of WIC. Provides a data environment that ensures availability, reliability, maintainability, and recoverability of agency databases. Ensures adequate safeguards for confidentiality and security of data. Responsible for data clean-up which includes identifying and resolving duplicate and erroneous records. Resolves complex business process and information requirements problems, via a combination of analytic judgment, process improvement techniques, and proven analytic practices.

Advises the Deputy Executive Director on projects and initiatives and recommends improvement strategies based on business process improvement techniques and best practice research. Keeps abreast of current trends regarding all aspects of database management. Acquires data from multiple data sources; and maintains data systems and reports. Designs and develops relational databases for collecting data; and builds or design data input or data collection screens. Keeps informed of latest concepts, developments, approaches, and solutions to effective agency data management and business intelligence. Locates and defines new process improvement initiatives and opportunities. Conduct trend and predictive analysis to drive innovative solutions to improving service delivery. Designs and produces weekly reports/compliance data for the supervisor, such as assessment spreadsheets, retail market competitors, compliance tracking, case management, demand indicators, and geographic distributions, and responds to technical questions.

Qualifications & Education

Specialized Experience: This position requires one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lowest grade level in the District of Columbia government. Specialized experience is experience which is directly related to the line of work of the position and has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.

Licensures & Certifications

None

Work Conditions/Environment

The work is performed in a normal office setting.

Other Significant Facts

Tour of Duty: Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Promotion Potential: No known promotion potential

Duration of Appointment: Career Service - Regular

Pay Plan, Series, Grade: CS-0301-12

Salary: $80,784 - $103,333

Collective Bargaining Unit: This position is not covered under collective bargaining.

Position Designation: This position has been designated as security sensitive therefore the incumbent of this position will be subject to enhanced suitability screening pursuant to Chapter 4 of DC Personnel Regulations, Suitability, and as such, incumbents of this position shall be subject to criminal background checks, background investigations, and mandatory drug and alcohol testing, as applicable.

Residency Requirement: Applicants claiming “Residency Preference” will be required to maintain residency in the District of Columbia for a minimum of seven (7) years. Failure to do so may result in forfeiture of employment.

EEO Statement: The District of Columbia Government is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, family responsibilities, matriculation, physical handicap, or political affiliation.