DATA ANALYTICS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR - OFFICE OF DATA GOVERNANCE & ANALYTICS - DAVIDSON - 81090

State of Tennessee; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 103,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

State of Tennessee in Nashville is seeking a Data Analytics Assistant Director to lead a team responsible for data extraction, analysis, and reporting for fiscal and administrative functions.

The role involves coaching analysts, ensuring high-quality analytics, and delivering dashboards using Tableau. Proficiency with SQL and SAS/R/Python is required, with a master’s degree and several years of analytics leadership experience.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a quantitative discipline; five years of data science/analytics experience; two years in a supervisory/manager role.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of analysts to extract, analyze, validate, and report data for fiscal and administrative reporting.
• Oversee day-to-day operations, ensure customer service excellence, and coach staff development.
• Write SQL queries, use SAS/R/Python for analysis, and present data via reports or Tableau dashboards.

Skills

SQL

SAS

R

Python

Tableau

Education

Master's degree in quantitative discipline

Tools

Tableau

SQL

Job description

Executive Service

Background Check

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

DATA ANALYTICS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR - OFFICE OF DATA GOVERNANCE & ANALYTICS - DAVIDSON

Department of Children's Services

Office of Data Governance and Analytics

Nashville, TN

Annual Salary: $103,440.00 - $134,244.00

Closing Date: 09/30/2026

Background Check

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Job Overview

The Data Analytics Assistant Director helps lead a team of analysts who extract, analyze, validate, and report data for fiscal and administrative reporting, quality improvement, research, and the detection of waste, fraud, and abuse. The Assistant Director oversees the team's day-to-day functioning, ensuring customer service excellence and high-quality analytics while coaching and overseeing team members' professional development. The Assistant Director will also do analytical work, writing SQL queries to extract data, using SAS, R or Python to analyze data and present data through reports or Tableau dashboards.

Key Responsibilities

• Communicate with leadership and staff to ensure the smooth management of day-to-day operations. Identifies any obstacles and demonstrates problem solving.
• Communicate regularly with external stakeholders to ensure the delivery of high-quality customer service. Identifying and implementing procedural improvements within the division or unit.
• Work with staff to ensure that time management, performance management, and professional development processes occur following requirements and best practices.
• Emphasize professional development of staff by mentoring, coaching, and connecting analysts to strategic opportunities.
• Continuously transform processes to make higher-value use of data holdings. This may involve automating more reporting, becoming more sophisticated in analytics, acquiring new analytic systems, integrating new tools, and making data available to more business units. Lead and provide guidance related to data asset production, data integration, data reporting and/or analytic solution development.

Minimum Qualifications

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a master's degree, preferably from but not limited to a quantitative discipline (statistics, data science, biostatistics, mathematics, economics, computer science, epidemiology, social or behavioral sciences, or business); Experience equivalent to at least five years full-time professional work as an analyst in data science, statistics, quantitative business analysis, or research; and, experience equivalent to at least two years full-time professional work as a supervisor or manager in a data science or analytics capacity.

OR

An equivalent combination of education and work experience may be considered.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.