• Locate and define new process improvement opportunities
• Providing technical expertise on data storage structures, data mining, and data cleansing
• Maintain information about the City’s data including the data definitions and structures, data security, storage and use requirements
• Work alongside city teams and/or management to establish business and information needs
• Commissioning and decommissioning of data programs
• Provide quality assurance of imported data, exported data
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to determine selected program effectiveness
• Engage data producers (city departments) and other internal stakeholders to convey the strategic importance of sharing open data, both internally and externally
• Engage with external consumers of open data to ensure awareness of available data, solicit feedback on data quality and obtain new ideas for future data releases.

Data analyst III:

• In addition to duties and responsibilities outlined in Data Analyst I & II above,
• Establish standards and procedures to provide optimum data response, access, integrity and security
• Develop and implement databases, data collection systems, data analytics and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality
• Develop standards for implementing websites, public facing APIs, applications and other technology projects by city agencies in a way that supports open data
• Develop policies and practices for departments to use to identify, review, publish and maintain open data sets for external consumers
• Anticipate future data needs and provide data base administration resources to foster innovation and growth

Education and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics, information technology, public policy, public administration, or related field
• Strong analytical capabilities
• Understanding of data gathering, inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling techniques
• Experience with data structures, data sets, databases, and SQL
• Communication skills with the ability to distill complex subjects to a wider audience
• Keen attention to detail
• Willingness to solve problems

Data analyst I:

• At least 1 year of experience in a data, analytics or related function involving quantitative data analysis to solve problems

Data analyst II:

• At least 2 years of experience in a data, analytics or related function involving quantitative data analysis to solve problems

Data analyst III:

• At least 4 years of experience in a data, analytics or related function involving quantitative data analysis to solve problems