Data Analyst
NYC Administration for Children's Services
Date: 13 hours ago
City: Manhattan, New York
Salary:
$87,743
-
$100,904
per year
Contract type: Full time
THE SELECTED CANDIDATE WILL BE OFFERED A SALARY BETWEEN $87,743.00 - $100,904.00
The Administration for Children’s 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:
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 www.cityjobs.nyc.gov or www.nyc.gov/ess 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
Minimum Qualifications
Probationary Period
Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness
As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.
Residency Requirement
New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.
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 individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.
, $87,743.00 – $110,120.00
The Administration for Children’s 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 Tool’s data store. Create an annual update method for institutional addresses.
- Development of the tool’s 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 DCP’s 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.
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 www.cityjobs.nyc.gov or www.nyc.gov/ess 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
Minimum Qualifications
- For Assignment Level I (only physical, biological and environmental sciences and public health) A master's degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological or environmental science or in public health.
- 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
- A master's 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
- Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above. However, all candidates must have at least a master's 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.
Probationary Period
Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness
As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.
Residency Requirement
New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.
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 individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.
, $87,743.00 – $110,120.00
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