Public Safety Analytics & Strategy Analyst

City of Watsonville; Watsonville (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of Watsonville Police Department seeks an Administrative Analyst to support operations with data analysis, research, and project coordination. The role develops reports, assists with strategic planning, and contributes to policy implementation while improving organizational effectiveness and public safety outcomes.

The position emphasizes analytical problem solving, collaboration across divisions, and long-term process improvement in a dynamic municipal environment.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of administration and management principles
• Basic budgetary accounting practices
• Application of statistical methods to research
• Municipal organization and relationships with the municipal government
• Modern office practices, procedures and appliances
• Principles of commercial and governmental accounting and standard record maintenance procedures
• Basic principles of public administration
• Research methods and techniques and methods of report presentation

Responsibilities

• Gathers and analyzes information concerning procedure, operations, budgets or space problems and prepares reports showing alternatives and method of implementing, ramifications for management and cost of purposed solutions
• Reviews and analyzes budget requests and makes recommendations as to appropriateness of requests
• Investigates and makes recommendations on requests for unbudgeted items
• Conducts special studies and works on projects concerning City or departmental procedure or policies, programs and grants
• Assists in conducting work measurement projects, prepares detailed analysis of operations, develops job standards and workload indicators
• Collects, compiles and organizes data for reports, recommendations, policies, special projects and public inquiries
• Researches issues and prepares responses, as directed
• Prepares correspondence and reports
• Reviews and analyzes recent and pending legislation affecting departmental programs
• Acts as City representative and liaison at meetings and conferences with public agencies and community groups as assigned

Skills

Analytical thinking

Data analysis

Report writing

Budgetary accounting

Research methods

Public administration

Education

Bachelor's degree in public administration, business administration, or closely related field

Job description

The City of Watsonville Police Department seeks an Administrative Analyst to support operations with data analysis, research, and project coordination. The role develops reports, assists with strategic planning, and contributes to policy implementation while improving organizational effectiveness and public safety outcomes.

The position emphasizes analytical problem solving, collaboration across divisions, and long-term process improvement in a dynamic municipal environment.