Senior Policy & Data Analytics Leader

Baltimore City; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 79,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Baltimore City is seeking a Senior Policy and Program Analyst to analyze, synthesize, and present strategic issues for senior leadership. You will lead cross-functional teams, guide quantitative and qualitative workforce development research, and provide recommendations for a coordinated workforce system.

The ideal candidate has strong data systems expertise, leadership ability, and experience communicating complex insights to non-technical audiences while managing projects independently.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in data science, statistics, applied mathematics, computer science, or computer engineering.
• Three or more years of experience in program evaluation, coordination, planning, strategic workforce development, and/or related work.
• Equivalency notes: have an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of evaluators who prepare analysis for action plans, program performance and evaluation reports, and any special studies required by state and federal agencies to support agency receipt and retention of grant funds.
• Inherit, improve, and expand MOED’s current analytic stack to better evaluate MOED’s performance, identify best practices in workforce development, foster opportunities for growth, and demystify MOED’s operations and impacts to Baltimore City residents.
• Provide consulting, expertise, and project management for strategic initiatives deemed critical to the agency’s success.
• Examine, develop, format, and query existing and new databases to produce narrative reports and dashboards to evaluate performance and provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Translate programmatic needs into functional data collection systems while balancing budget, policy, and user-capability limitations.
• Perform related work as required.

Skills

R or Python

Power BI

Excel

SQL

Power Apps

Mentoring

Data storytelling

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in data science, statistics, applied mathematics, computer science, or computer engineering

Tools

SQL

Job description

Baltimore City is seeking a Senior Policy and Program Analyst to analyze, synthesize, and present strategic issues for senior leadership. You will lead cross-functional teams, guide quantitative and qualitative workforce development research, and provide recommendations for a coordinated workforce system.

The ideal candidate has strong data systems expertise, leadership ability, and experience communicating complex insights to non-technical audiences while managing projects independently.