Environmental Justice Analyst; MA

Environmental Justice Analyst (MA
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Energy Division catalyzes the transition to a clean, just, and resilient energy future.

• Supports the implementation of Washington’s environmental justice law known as the HEAL (Healthy Environment for All) Act.
• Conducts HEAL Act and environmental justice‑related analytical research and provides expert consultation across divisions within Commerce.
• Aligns programmatic efforts to agency environmental justice and HEAL Act priorities and makes recommendations regarding implementation, including significant agency actions, environmental justice implementation plan, community engagement plan, and a tribal consultation framework.
• Supports program leads with implementing and integrating Commerce’s environmental justice framework.

• Determine research methods to collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data and information. Develop and plan how to generate and communicate useful insights to facilitate informed decision‑making by leaders in COM. Focus areas include creating dashboards for agency program performance metrics, specific HEAL metrics tracking, and agency budget and funding analytics. It also includes tracking HEAL‑covered interagency outputs and outcomes, and evaluating established datasets on the Washington Tracking Network, the Environmental Health Disparities Map, and other EJ and health‑related data.
  • Apply ArcGIS mapping applications and quantitative coding and analyses to qualitative data.
• Identify potential data sources related to equity, environmental justice, and other related topics; request data from data owners or gather it from original sources, integrate data from multiple sources, analyze data using statistical, qualitative, and/or predictive analysis methods, and document data analysis methodology.
• Review literature (laws, rules, and policies, relevant websites, professional journals, human resources associations, research institutes, etc.) to respond to business questions, identify promising practices/potential countermeasures, and develop benchmarks.
• Provide analyses and serve as consultant to multi‑divisional stakeholders across the agency on HEAL Act and environmental justice integration agency‑wide, in accord with the HEAL Act and other statutes, executive orders, and state‑government directives. At times, analyses will also be shared externally to the interagency workgroup and others.
• Design and administer surveys to the public regarding the agency’s HEAL Act implementation metrics and outputs, and internally to agency staff to evaluate the incorporation of EJ into agency practices, in accord with the law.
• Interpret data and information to generate actionable insights, create data visualizations, and draft and present written and oral reports, presentations, and briefings to leaders and staff.

• Assist with cross‑division implementation efforts, including interacting with appointing authorities, managing directors and program leads, thus serving as EJ consultant to ensure effective implementation of the statewide HEAL Act law, EJ state government best practices, and associated directives and laws.
• Design and draft processes to help assess progress toward targets and goals.
• Help design data/analytics projects for the EJ‑CE…