Data Analyst/Scientist (Direct Client)

DATA ANALYST

PHILADELPHIA, PA

6+ MONTHS

VIRTUAL INTERVIEWS

Onsite Role

REQUIREMENT:

Position overview / Statement of Work

This project entails the data collected from all 14 installations/locations to determine whatapplicable performance metrics will be created. In addition, the generation of data collection methods,

formula creation, and the analysis and comparison of all sources of financial, law enforcement and realestate information for use as management decision points.

Work activities:

• Work closely with office staff and management to compile and summarize broad statisticalinformation for use in developing internal reports, funding proposals, and external communications tovarious stakeholders such as City Council, and our constituents.

• Liaise with experts in the fields of civil/real estate, mathematics, and computer science on dataprojects relating to policing, indigent defense, and criminal justice.

• Collect, interpret, and analyze internal and external data to inform policy decisions and publiccommentary on law enforcement operations.

• Identify shortcomings in available datasets and develop collaborative collection methods to respondto long-term Policy and other unit needs relating to caseload, workflow, and client outcomes.

• Liaise between legal staff and IT department to ensure precise and accurate communication of dataneeds and availability.

• Provide statistical commentary on external reports and publications to ensure proper interpretation.

Skills/experience of the assigned staff:

Required

• Minimum of one-year work experience in data analysis in an academic or professionalsetting.

• Demonstrated experience in all phases of research and analysis, including projectconceptualization, data collection planning, implementation, data management, statisticalanalysis, and presentation to stakeholders.

• Skilled in mining and delivering descriptive statistics, with a working knowledge and desire toexpand into exploratory and confirmatory data analysis projects.

• Strong understanding of measurement theory and causal inference using non-experimentaldata.

• Familiar with data analysis programs, such as R, Stata, Visual Basic, Mega Stat, or SPSS. –this should be more than familiar – fluency in at least one of these programs is essential la

with preference given for familiarity with the others.

• Fluency in SQL preferred

• Recent experience in cleaning data, preparing datasets, and ensuring data quality andintegrity.

• Advanced Understanding of Excel.

• Experience with visualization software, such as Tableau,

• Experience with multivariate analysis, including generalized linear models.

• Ability to work well with others and handle a variety of tasks simultaneously.

• Excellent written and interpersonal communications skills.

• Ability to interpret and explain data collection processes and results to several distinctaudiences with varying levels of education, technical proficiency, and comfort with statistics.

• Excellent organizational and time management skills.

• A commitment to, and understanding of, client confidentiality.

• A desire to provide better and more successful representation of Philadelphia’s indigentaccused.

Desired:Experience in law enforcement, real estate, operations management, statistics a plus.

Highly Desired/Preferred:

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Econometrics,

Business Administration, or a related discipline.

Vaibhav Rustagi

Assistant Team Lead

SoftSages Technology, Inc.

E-Mail: [email protected]