Senior Policy Data Analyst
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JobgetherCriminal justice analytics
Remote work options across the United StatesFull-TimeSenior
Salary120,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- At least five years of full-time professional experience exploring, analyzing, and processing complex datasets.
- Required Skills
- Project ManagementPythonSQLGCPPandas
Requirements
- At least five years of full-time professional experience exploring, analyzing, and processing complex datasets.
- Advanced SQL skills, including efficient queries for complex data extraction, transformation, and analysis across large datasets.
- Professional experience using Python, particularly pandas, for data manipulation, statistical analysis, and visualization.
- Strong statistical foundations, including the ability to design analyses, scrutinize results, evaluate uncertainty, and produce defensible conclusions.
- Experience scoping and delivering analytical projects under tight timelines and shifting priorities.
- Ability to turn ambiguous questions into structured analytical approaches and meaningful metrics for real-world decisions.
- Strong judgment in selecting material details, making appropriate simplifications, and communicating limitations responsibly.
- Experience collaborating across functions, seeking context, communicating risks, and addressing blockers.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including translating technical findings into recommendations for nontechnical audiences.
- Strong project management, organization, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities independently.
- Experience adapting quantitative methods to develop decision-relevant metrics is preferred.
- Experience with large public-sector administrative datasets, particularly criminal justice, corrections, parole, or community supervision, is preferred.
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Looker, Jupyter notebooks, and the Python/pandas ecosystem is preferred.
- Experience with government agencies, policy teams, or complex public-sector environments is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Analyze corrections, parole, and other administrative datasets using SQL and Python to identify trends and opportunities for policy improvement.
- Design and deliver analytical projects, translating broad objectives into work plans, methods, timelines, and deliverables.
- Develop statistical models and policy scenarios using regression, time-series, stock-and-flow, and distributional analysis.
- Quantify the effects and trade-offs of alternative policy designs, including assumptions, limitations, and uncertainty.
- Communicate findings through presentations, reports, memos, and decision-support materials for agency leaders and stakeholders.
- Collaborate with policy specialists, engineers, partnership leads, and other teams on state context, data infrastructure, and implementation considerations.
- Manage projects from problem definition through analysis, interpretation, stakeholder communication, and final delivery.
- Develop reusable analytical methods, modeling patterns, and frameworks for the broader team.
- Conduct exploratory analyses to assess potential project feasibility and decision value.
- Support policy implementation by explaining evidence-based insights and operational implications to stakeholders.
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