Public-Sector Data Science & Analytics Lead

AlphaX; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaGov delivers public-sector analytics consulting for cities, counties, school systems, and utilities. We operate with a remote-first approach and travel as needed to client sites. Our teams assemble expert collaborators for live pursuits and avoid speculative staffing banks.

You will lead analytics engagements, frame questions with domain experts, and produce decision-ready analyses for executive audiences and agency staff. Strong writing and data skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of applied data science, analytics, or quantitative public-policy work.
• Demonstrated delivery of at least two public-sector analytic products.
• Strong statistical literacy and clear writing for non-technical audiences.
• Remote US work with occasional travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead or co-lead public-sector analytics engagements—forecasting, performance measurement, data quality, and dashboards.
• Frame analytic questions with domain experts and translate findings for executives and stakeholders.
• Build reproducible analyses on administrative and public datasets; document methods.
• Advise on data governance, privacy constraints, and handoffs to agency staff.
• Produce decision-ready products for cities, counties, state agencies, and school systems.
• Coordinate with SMEs when scopes overlap and contribute content to proposals.

Skills

Applied data science

Public-sector analytics

Statistical literacy

Written communication

Education

Master's degree (preferred) in statistics, data science, public policy

Tools

Python

R

Power BI

Tableau

Looker

BigQuery

Job description

AlphaGov delivers public-sector consulting for cities, counties, school systems, special districts, utilities, and related agencies. Our work spans classification and compensation, organizational and operational studies, research and program evaluation, economic and workforce analysis, surveys and community research, and applied data and infrastructure research.

We engage experienced practitioners as project-based collaborators. Engagements are remote-first with occasional client travel. When you authorize it, AlphaGov may name you as an expert collaborator or key personnel on proposals that match your expertise. We build ready teams for live pursuits — not speculative staffing banks.

What you'll do:

• Lead or co-lead public-sector analytics engagements — forecasting, performance measurement, data quality, and dashboard/implementation support
• Frame analytic questions with domain experts and translate findings for executives and elected/appointed stakeholders
• Build reproducible analyses on administrative and public datasets; document methods and limits
• Advise on data governance, quality controls, privacy constraints, and sustainable handoff to agency staff
• Produce decision-ready products for cities, counties, state agencies, transit/utility authorities, and school systems
• Coordinate with evaluation, LMI/workforce, and operations SMEs when scopes overlap
• Contribute technical write-ups, scopes, and proposal content when naming is authorized
• Avoid staff-augmentation coding, pure academic research, or product SaaS sales framing

Required

• Five or more years applied data science, analytics, or quantitative public-policy work (government, public consulting, or research-to-practice)
• Demonstrated delivery of at least two public-sector or quasi-public analytic products (agency, your role, year)
• Strong statistical literacy and clear writing for non-technical audiences
• Ability to work project-based with AlphaGov as a named collaborator on proposals when permissioned
• Remote US; occasional client travel as needed

Nice to have

• Python and/or R plus modern BI (Power BI, Tableau, Looker)
• Government administrative data, privacy, or IRB-adjacent constraints
• Transit, utility, workforce, education, or Medicaid analytics
• Cloud data-warehouse familiarity (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift)