Senior Analyst

The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) invests in a network of communitybased organizations (CBOs) to alleviate the effects of poverty and to provide opportunities for New Yorkers and communities to flourish.

DYCDs initiatives include COMPASS (the Citys comprehensive afterschool system) Beacon Community Centers adult and youth literacy programs youth employment programs services for runaway and homeless youth antiviolence initiatives and community development programs DYCD also collaborates with other City agencies on a range of mayoral initiatives to improve City services and ensure greater opportunities for minority and immigrant youth and families.

This role is situated within the Bureau of Planning Program Integration and Evaluation (PPIE) which promotes datadriven and evidenceinformed decisionmaking across DYCD and provides training and technical assistance to service providers to ensure highquality services in communities through

capacity building. PPIE has also taken a large role in the integration of antiviolence and community safety programs into DYCDs ecosystem of services.

This role is a part of the Analytics and Reporting team within PPIE. The Analytics and Reporting team is responsible for conducting agencywide data analytics and overseeing external reporting to monitor trends track outputs and outcomes and inform system improvements and program design including through our performance management system.

The team also serves as a liaison between the Information Technology unit software developers procurement and all programmatic units to guide the development of several data systems including a webbased Evaluation and Monitoring System (EMS) and a Participant Tracking System (PTS).

Reporting to the Director of Analytics and Performance Management the Senior Analyst will :

Conduct analyses and evaluate data from multiple data sources including DYCD data systems

• surveys and stakeholder engagement sessions to inform program and policy decisions;
• Support the integration of antiviolence and community safety programs into DYCDs data systems;

Support the analytics and reporting of programs that address barriers to employment and create

Develop quality assurance protocols for data collection and reporting related to community safety and

Develop and update agencywide key performance indicator (KPI) dashboards on a continuous basis

Coordinate data sharing processes with criminal justice agencies and match data to programmatic

Design and facilitate intraagency meetings to establish policies and encourage consistent

Embed change management process and competencies to support implementation and reinforcement

Additional tasks including reviewing and rating proposals grantwriting participating in workgroups

with other units and divisions within DYCD and interacting with other City agencies to coordinate joint

initiatives.

CITY RESEARCH SCIENTIST 21744

Qualifications :

1. For Assignment Level I (only physical biological and environmental sciences and public health) A masters degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological or environmental science or in public health.

To be appointed to Assignment Level II and above candidates must have :

1. 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 fulltime experience in a responsible supervisory administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or

2. A masters 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 fulltime research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or

3. Education and / or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have at least a masters 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.

NOTE : Probationary Period

Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.

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 individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work : Employment Type :

Fulltime

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Vacancy : 1