Senior Analytics Specialist

Overview

We are looking for a highly motivated, innovative, experienced customer-focused analyst, with a keen interest in strategic analysis, data science, and performance measurement and evaluation to join our Analytics Services team which has been rated as one of the best in the Canadian public sector.

In this role, you'll contribute to the effectiveness of WorkSafeBC by providing strategic analysis, advanced analytics, and business intelligence to support business decision making.

If you're a team player, proactive, and a strong communicator with sound problem solving and critical thinking skills, then consider joining us for a rewarding career keeping the population of British Columbia safe. We'd like to hear from you!

This is a temporary role for eighteen months.

How you'll make a difference: You'll use leading edge tech to connect people to healthy and safe workplaces.

At WorkSafeBC, we offer a hybrid work model that combines working remotely, and in our offices, based on the operational needs of the position.

• Conduct data analytics, performance measurement analysis, and program evaluation addressing a wide variety of issues in occupational health and safety, management oversight, internal operations, and disability management
• Identify trends, emerging issues, drivers, and opportunities of business significance to WorkSafeBC, and developing recommendations to management and senior management related to those areas
• Develop/improve data models for forecasting/prediction, targeting, outlier detection, and performance measurement to successfully convey key themes and messages
• Facilitate inter‑departmental and inter‑organizational sessions focused on performance improvement, opportunity identification, and problem solving, leveraging data to meet business objectives
• Lead various internal teams on ad‑hoc requests, investigations, pilot studies, proofs of concept, and various program evaluation projects
• Consistently models the appropriate level of organizational behaviors expected of all WorkSafeBC employees: responsive, respectful, fair, collaborative, accountable, and forward thinking.

• Independently plan, prioritize, schedule, and complete complex multi‑task workload of projects and activities to consistently meet deadlines
• Gather information; summarize, verify and interpret data; assimilate technical and business information; and review relevant information with clients, co‑workers, and contacts
• Clearly and concisely present analysis results and recommendations both in written reports and verbally to individuals and groups of varying levels of expertise
• Identify significant information from a variety of sources, collect and analyze data to develop, assess, and establish meaningful ways of grouping and transforming data to draw conclusions of underlying issues
• Apply quantitative and qualitative research methods (e.g. statistical analyses, data modeling, text mining, machine learning, predictive analytics, sampling, survey and questionnaire design).

• A master's degree in a quantitative‑related discipline such as statistics/mathematics, operations research, big data, data science, computer science, information technology, finance, business, management information systems, or engineering.
• A minimum of three years of directly related experience in business intelligence, statistical analysis, strategic analysis, and/or advanced analytics.

For more information about this position, including the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs); job description; and awareness items, see the job profile on WSN.

• Consent to a criminal record check
• Confirm you're legally entitled to work in Canada

WorkSafeBC's COVID‑19 Employee Mandatory Vaccine Policy is suspended effective January 9, 2023; however, we reserve the right to re‑implement it in response to changes in the public health landscape, including public health orders. We are committed to the protection, health, and safety of our employees and our Communicable Disease Prevention Program and related protocols remain in effect.

At WorkSafeBC, we…