Data Analyst

Position Overview

The Data Analyst will conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses to evaluate program effectiveness, improve administrative operations, and support informed management decisions. The role includes developing study methods, reviewing financial and program data, conducting cost analyses, preparing reports, and recommending improvements to workflows and management processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop study methods and evaluation techniques for program reviews, studies, and audits; interpret findings and recommend improvements.
• Gather, reconcile, validate, and analyze quantitative and qualitative information from multiple sources, including incomplete or conflicting data.
• Evaluate programs, grant operations, and administrative activities against established goals, measures, and objectives.
• Prepare clear, accurate reports, statistical tables, program status summaries, and recommendations within established timelines.
• Review financial, narrative, and statistical reports and program data submitted at local, state, regional, and federal levels to identify significant findings and opportunities for improvement.
• Conduct project life-cycle cost analyses, cost-benefit analyses, and economic evaluations of programs.
• Evaluate internal processes, procedures, organizational structures, and data systems and recommend changes that improve efficiency, productivity, and cost effectiveness.
• Develop or modify work methods, records and filing systems, management processes, staffing patterns, operational guidelines, and procedures for administering program services.
• Assess opportunities to automate administrative workflows and adopt appropriate technology developments.
• Evaluate and recommend organizational changes, including options for centralizing or decentralizing operations.
• Plan and organize assigned studies, define project scope and deadlines, estimate costs, and coordinate with staff and management throughout the project.
• Participate in meetings and conferences with administrative, scientific, technical, and interagency stakeholders to gather information, present conclusions, resolve problems, and develop alternative courses of action.
• Serve as a point of contact for assigned program analyses, planning activities, and science policy requests.
• Identify appropriate information sources, resolve administrative and analytical issues, and promptly communicate findings or problems with potentially broad impact.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information management, computer science, data analytics/artificial intelligence, or equivalent.
• Experience performing data analysis and using computer science and artificial intelligence to process datasets.
• Knowledge of data analysis techniques and analytical and evaluative methods for assessing program and administrative effectiveness.
• Ability to plan, schedule, and conduct projects and studies and adapt evaluation criteria to assess and improve organizational productivity.
• Knowledge of laws, regulations, policies, and precedents affecting program resources and administrative support operations.
• Knowledge of program goals, objectives, work processes, and administrative operations relevant to the work being analyzed.
• Skill in developing or modifying work methods, management processes, organizational structures, and procedures.
• Ability to interpret and adapt guidance, reconcile information from multiple sources, and develop recommendations for substantive operational issues.

Deliverables

• Provide a monthly summary of tasks worked on and completed.