City Research Scientist

JOB SUMMARY:

The Bronx District Attorney's Office in New York City serves a multicultural, international community of 1.4 million residents. Led by District Attorney Darcel D. Clark, the Bronx District Attorney's Office is one of the country's leading prosecutorial offices. The Office's mission of "Pursuing Justice With Integrity" captures its commitment to pursue a safer Bronx through fair justice. BXDA's Strategic Planning and Analytics Unit serves as the internal management consulting arm of the Office. The unit uses cutting-edge data science and research analytics to support the Office's application of evidence-based decision-making. This unit is responsible for measuring performance, conducting strategic analysis, evaluating the effects of policies and initiatives, and promoting transparency.  The unit also manages the Office's grants, which provide critical funding to support prosecutorial practices and victims of crime in the Bronx.

The Senior Planning Analyst will be responsible for a wide range of analytic and research efforts to advance policy planning and strategic initiatives, including but not limited to: supervising work of data analysts, supporting the development and maintenance of a data management system, quantitative data analysis, and reporting, database assessment, creation and automation of ad hoc and recurrent reports, and development of dashboards and data visualizations for internal and external presentation.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Specific duties will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Helping lead the development of a system of reporting and analytic operations by leveraging programming languages (e.g., R, SQL) and dashboarding applications (e.g., R-Shiny, Power BI);
• Leading quantitative analysis projects including identification of data sources, development of metrics, checking, cleaning, and verifying data from large, complex criminal justice databases;
• Some supervision of the work of junior data analysts conducting quantitative data analysis, data management, programming, and other research or evaluation projects;
• Identification of source data, including assessing existing databases for accuracy and identifying opportunities for new data sources and measures;
• Identifying areas of concern and developing strategies to correct deficiencies or problems;
• Developing tools and methods to analyze large, siloed criminal justice data files, support reproducible and automated dashboards, reports, and analyses.
• Providing support to other bureaus across the agency on analysis and reporting;
• Conducting program evaluations, including identifying measurement outcomes, collecting relevant data, and performing statistical analysis to assess impacts and trends.
• Lead and design dashboards, data visualizations and presentations to convey technical information to non-technical audiences.
• Lead the assessment and evaluation of prosecutorial outcomes against office policies and metrics using a range of criminal justice administrative data sources.
• Technical writing, proofreading, editing, copy writing, grant writing, and other equivalent written communication required.
• Perform policy research, including literature reviews and national best practices research on emerging trends in criminal justice.
• Perform all other related duties and projects as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's degree or Ph.D. in criminal justice, social sciences, public policy, statistics, or a related field preferred.
• A minimum of 4 years related experience in data analysis or quantitative research, preferably in a non-profit or public sector setting focused on criminal justice policy.
• Experience using data analysis software such as R, SPSS, SAS, Stata, etc.
• Experience using data visualization software such as Tableau, Power-BI, or R Shiny
• Knowledge of public policy, the criminal justice system and criminal justice data.
• Excellent written and verbal interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
• Strong project management skills in a team-oriented environment
• Strong quantitative abilities and familiarity with research and evaluation methods and statistical analyses
• Strong analytical and computer skills
• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines

To Apply

We appreciate your interest in a position with the Bronx District Attorney's Office. To apply, cut and paste the following link into the browser: https://us.smrtr.io/3yyHx, or go to https://cityjobs.nyc.gov/ à Locate the "Search open jobs" field à Enter the Job ID 681790.

Upon your completion of the city application through Smartrecruiter, we will review your application and contact you if you are selected for an interview. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to contact Recruitment at 718-590-2258 or via email at bxdarecruit@bronxda.nyc.gov.

**LOAN FORGIVENESS: The federal government provides student loan forgiveness through its Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PLF) to all qualifying public service employees. Working with Bronx District Attorney’s Office qualifies you as a public service employee and you may be able to take advantage of this program while working full-time and meeting the program's other requirements. Please visit the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program site to view the eligibility requirements: https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service.

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.

Upon your completion of the City application through NYCAPS, we will review your application and contact you if you are selected for an interview. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to contact Recruitment at 718-590-2258 or via email at bxdarecruit@bronxda.nyc.gov.

Post Until Filled

**LOAN FORGIVENESS: The federal government provides student loan forgiveness through its Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PLF) to all qualifying public service employees. Working with Bronx District Attorney’s Office qualifies you as a public service employee and you may be able to take advantage of this program while working full-time and meeting the program's other requirements. Please visit the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program site to view the eligibility requirements: https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service.

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.