Data and Research Analyst

Position Overview

DATA AND RESEARCH ANALYST – The County of San Diego has current openings for this promotional opportunity open to current County employees only. Temporary employees, with the exception of Certified Temporary employees, are not eligible for promotional recruitments. This recruitment will be used to fill a current vacancy with the Sheriff’s Office. The eligible list established from this process may be used to fill future vacancies in other County departments.

• Applies rigorous analytic thinking to the collection and analysis of data
• Supports projects through cleaning and transforming various types of data
• Creates analytical datasets for different types of projects
• Performs descriptive and exploratory data analyses
• Contributes creative ideas to the development of proposals for new projects or for changes to existing projects
• Provides technical assistance for projects that require data collection, cleaning, transformation, or analysis
• Is actively and thoughtfully engaged in the activities of multidisciplinary teams, drawing on their technical expertise to support analytic tasks
• Creates and maintains well documented code and other documentation required for other data analysts to replicate and reproduce work products
• Finds extracts and interprets data meanings in data for trends, solutions, improvements, efficiencies, and understanding community needs
• Builds dashboards and reports to visualize data statistics
• Collects, analyzes, and manages data to develop, monitor, and improve outcome-based performance measures that support evidence-based, data-driven decision-making

Additional information please visit Data and Research Analyst job classification.

• Job Offer and Background Process begins:
  Shortly after the interviews.
  Note
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  Current County employees may be excluded from additional background screening.
• Pre-employment Medical Screening:
  Approximately 3 days following successful background investigation results.
• Anticipated
  
  Start Date:
  
  Start date will be based upon successful completion of medical screening or other mutually agreed upon date.

If you are not selected for this interview process, you may have the opportunity to compete for future vacancies.

Note:

Education and work experience may be substituted on a year-for-year basis.

For your education and/or certifications to be considered, you must attach a copy of your degree, transcripts, diploma, foreign equivalency report and/or certifications to your application. Please submit only the documents required. Additional documentation, such as awards, letters of recommendation, unsolicited certifications, etc. will not be added to your application file.

The Department of Human Resources removes personally identifiable information from all recruitments. This practice, called Blind Applicant Screening, hides a candidate’s personal information that could influence or bias a hiring decision. Personal information includes name, phone number, address, gender, age and race. This process helps contribute to a fair and equitable selection process leading to a more diverse and inclusive workforce.

The most highly qualified candidates, based on the evaluation results, will be referred for an interview. Be sure to include your experience in meeting the minimum requirements in both the Work Experience section and the Supplemental Questionnaire section of the Application.

Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of the application Work History and/or supplemental questionnaire.

As part of the County of San Diego’s pre-employment process, prospective candidates will undergo a background check (including fingerprinting) and a pre-employment medical screening prior to beginning County employment. Additional types of background investigations may be conducted based on the job-related activities of the position.…