MANAGEMENT ANALYST (UNCLASSIFIED)

City of Cincinnati; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement Plan

Flexible Benefits Plans

Job summary

The City of Cincinnati is seeking an entry‑level data analytics professional to learn city processes, analyze data, and tell compelling stories to support performance management.

You will collaborate across departments, build relationships with city staff, and help drive data‑driven improvements while growing skills in project management and presentations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in one of the listed fields is required.

Responsibilities

• Learn quickly about department portfolio and data constraints.
• Build relationships with department heads and frontline staff to represent operational realities through data.
• Follow up on projects to ensure accurate deliverables and timelines.
• Collaborate across cross‑functional teams to create holistic data solutions.
• Contribute to business intelligence strategies for moderately complex problems.
• Balance multiple responsibilities and priorities while managing time.

Skills

Relationship building

Data storytelling

Public speaking

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Public Policy, Political Science, Public Administration, Social Science, Mathematics, Finance, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, IT, Data Science, Business Admin or related

Tools

PowerBI

Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Office

Job description

Specfic Statement of Duties

This employee performs entry level work which involves a high degree of learning about City processes, executive communication, data analysis, and data storytelling. Responsibilities include working with a variety of City departments on performance management goals, understanding department data, presenting data to City leaders, and following project timelines. This position is an opportunity to grow project management, data analysis, and presentation skills. Performs related duties as assigned.

General Statement of Duties

This employee performs entry level work which involves a high degree of learning about City processes, executive communication, data analysis, and data storytelling. Responsibilities include working with a variety of City departments on performance management goals, understanding department data, presenting data to City leaders, and following project timelines. This position is an opportunity to grow project management, data analysis, and presentation skills. Performs related duties as assigned.

The Department

The Office Of Performance And Data Analytics Is a Small, Fast-paced Team Charged With Creating Data Solutions, Process Design & Improvement, And Performance Management Across All City Departments. The Office Focuses On The Following Key Initiatives

• Data Solutions – Use data processing, data transformation and dashboard/report building to support data driven decisions across City departments and support effective performance management.
• CincyInsights – An interactive open data dashboard portal, designed to make open data more user friendly and interactive for all users.
• Open Data Portal – The City's web portal to which datasets are published daily (or more often, for some datasets).
• Continuous Improvement – Focused on solving complex problems across multiple departments, utilizing data and design thinking to partner with key stakeholders to address some of the City's most challenging operational and customer service issues.
• Performance Management – Facilitating the City’s strategic approach to performance management, including department specific service catalogs, annual department performance agreements, program and service evaluations, and the strategic monitoring and accountability cadence that brings each of these components together to form a holistic approach to citywide performance management.

Your Role

• Learn quickly. Demonstrably able to learn quickly about assigned department portfolio, department priorities, data and constraints. Additionally, quickly refine presentation, data transformation, and analytical skills on the job.
• Build relationships. Fully understand and accurately represent operational realities through data analysis by building relationships with department heads, division managers, frontline employees, and other city employees.
• Follow up and follow through. Follow-up and persistently follow through to ensure that projects, work deliverables, and office initiatives are accurate and complete.
• Work collaboratively and take the initiative. Ability to work collaboratively as part of a cross-functional team to create holistic solutions. Take the initiative and work independently on projects and programs while knowing when to engage colleagues and manager.
• Think Strategically. Willingness to contribute to business intelligence strategies to address problems of moderate complexity focused on a specific program, function, or service area.
• Manage Time. Ability to learn project management and adhere to project times; ability to effectively balance multiple responsibilities and priorities simultaneously.
• Balanced Decision-making. Consider and weigh multiple (and sometimes conflicting) elements in the process of summarizing and presenting information for decision making.

Minimum Qualifications (KSAs)

Knowledge Of

• Microsoft Office
• Methodologies for conducting data analyses.
• Data visualization software such as PowerBI/ Microsoft Fabric

Skill To

• Build and manage relationships to facilitate collaboration
• Communicate findings from data
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand operational processes and related data
• Identify City departments’ data needs
• Evaluate obtained city data e.g., public safety, public services, internal services.

Ability To

• Prepare clear and concise reports.
• Comfortable with public speaking and giving presentations
• Adapt to new processes and technologies and become proficient in their use.
• Provide guidance, support, to other staff in all issues pertaining to applications and databases.
• Assist other users in troubleshooting problems with applications.
• Establish, maintain, and manage relationships with client departments, offices, and external City partners around analytics and data-sharing.

HR CONTACT: [e-mail]

Required Education And Experience

OPEN

Each applicant must have a bachelor's degree in Public Policy, Political Science, Public Administration, Social Science, Mathematics, Finance, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, Business Administration or a related field.

Other Requirements

Some positions may require a valid Driver's License.

Military Education & Experience Evaluation

Military education and experience may be substituted for college level course work at the lower and upper division baccalaureate and graduate levels and apprenticeship training at the vocational certificate level on a case-by-case basis based on the American Council on Education (ACE) Military Guide recommendations.

Working and Physical Conditions

Environmental Conditions:

Indoor and outdoor environments; exposure to office computer screens; exposure to extremes in weather conditions; automobile travel within the City may be required.

Physical Conditions

Duties may require maintaining physical conditioning necessary for sitting and standing for prolonged time periods; light lifting and carrying; general manual dexterity required; must be able to operate assigned vehicle.

(The below information is solely intended as a summary of the benefits available and is subject to change. Not all benefits listed are available for every position. Benefits can vary depending on applicable labor agreements and/or salary plan. For specific questions, contact the HR Contact indicated on the Job Posting.)

The City of Cincinnati offers its employees competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefit package designed to actively attract and retain quality employees' to add additional value to the City of Cincinnati's workforce. A summary of these benefits for full-time employment is listed below. This is a general listing of benefits for all employees and is not intended to be a comprehensive listing for all bargaining units.

The City offers a variety of training programs, ranging from job-specific skills such as computer and equipment instruction, to helping supervisors improve their management techniques.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The City of Cincinnati is dedicated to providing equal employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, disability status, marital status, sexual orientation or transgendered status, or ethnic, national or Appalachian origin, or on the basis of any other category protected under federal, state and local laws.

Holidays

• New Year's Day
• Martin Luther King Day
• President's Day
• Memorial Day
• Juneteenth
• Independence Day
• Labor Day
• Veterans' Day
• Thanksgiving Day
• Day after Thanksgiving
• Christmas

Health Insurance

The City of Cincinnati 80/20 offers 3 medical plans to all full time City of Cincinnati employees and eligible dependents: the 80/20 PPO medical plan, the HDHP medical plan with an HSA contribution, and a Health Reimbursement Arrangement for those enrolled on another non-city eligible group plan.

Eligible Dependents Include

• Legal Spouse or Equal Partner
• Child (natural child, adopted child, and/or child who the group has determined is covered under a "Qualified Medical Child Support Order")
• Step-child
• Child for whom the employee or employee's spouse/equal partner is a legal guardian

Basic Life Insurance

A $50,000 Basic Life Insurance policy is paid for by the City for certain eligible employees. Full time employees not eligible for the City-paid basic life insurance policy are generally provided a similar benefit through their union group.

Supplemental Life, Long Term Disability, Accident & Critical Illness Insurance

Most full time City employees are eligible to participate in a supplemental life insurance program, a long term disability plan, and accident and critical illness insurance programs at their own expense. Premiums are determined by age, amount of coverage, and various additional factors.

Flexible Benefits Plans

Healthcare Flex Spending Account

City employees can participate in the Healthcare Flex Spending Account that can be used to pay out-of-pocket medical, prescription, dental, and vision care expenses for employees and family members.

Dependent Care Flex Spending Account

City employees can participate in a Dependent Care Flex Spending Account that can be used to pay work-related dependent care expenses. Participants can set aside money each year through pre-tax payroll deductions to pay for these expenses.

Transportation Expense Reimbursement Account

City employees can participate in a Transportation Expense Reimbursement Account (TERA) that can be used to reimburse expenses related to traveling to and from work. Participants can set-up a pre-tax payroll deduction up to an IRS regulated amount.

Healthy Lifestyles Program

City employees can voluntarily participate in a wellness incentive program that encourages and rewards employees and their spouses/equal partners for making positive choices for better health. The City of Cincinnati will contribute up to $300/year to a Health Reimbursement Account for each the employee and their spouse/equal partner for meeting specified program goals. These dollars can be used to offset qualified out-of-pocket medical expenses.

Integrated Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA)

This is a voluntary program that serves as an alternative healthcare option to traditional medical plans. If you have alternate group health coverage available to you through a spouse, equal partner, another job, or a non-city retirement plan, you may be eligible for this plan which reimburses you for the difference in premiums between the plans and your covered out of pocket expenses on the other plan.

Retirement Plan

The City provides a defined benefit pension plan for part-time and full-time employees. New hires and re-hired employees are required to participate in the City of Cincinnati's Retirement System (CRS), regardless of previous participation in an Ohio State pension system or any another state or federal pension system. CRS is funded by employer and employee contributions, and investment returns from plan assets. CRS provides retirement and health care benefits subject to eligibility requirements. The following groups are excluded from participation in CRS: Mayor and Members of City Council; Sworn Police & Fire; Police Recruits; and Rehired Ohio Police & Fire Retirees.

Deferred Compensation

As an Ohio government employer, the City offers employees the ability to participate in a 457(b) tax-deferred retirement savings plan. The City makes an annual match to your 457(b) of up to $750, or as otherwise specified in applicable regulations and union contracts.