DATA ANALYTICS MANAGER - 66719

Executive Service

Background Check:

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position

Job Overview:

• Designs data analytical strategies, strategic plan of key programs, and quality review for essential reports prior to deliveries.
• Manages data analytics staff and maintains stakeholder relationships within agency, external agency partners, contractors and vendors.
• Utilizes complex statistical software applications for queries and analytics in SQL, SAS, Tableau, and other languages in addition to conducting advanced data procedures, analyses, and advanced statistical methods.
• Presents information and communicates the interpretation of findings to key stakeholders and agency senior leadership and executive levels.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee team of data analysts providing regular communication and processing of routine data requests quickly and accurately, including receiving, reviewing, and assigning data requests coming from internal and external partners.
• Communicate with users and other stakeholders to clarify and refine requests/questions.
• Provide day-to-day management of staff to ensure effective operations of departmental activities.
• Identify obstacles, problem solve, and implement procedural improvements.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and strategies for staff professional development.
• Write SAS, R, and/or Python programs and SQL queries to extract and manipulate data to answer the specific question at hand, and perform descriptive, predictive, and inferential statistical analyses.
• Conceptualize, supervise, assign, review, deliver and/or complete data mining and other special analytic projects.
• Work with directors and HR liaisons to ensure staff recruiting and on-boarding, time management, performance management, and professional development processes occur following agency and State of Tennessee requirements and best practices.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's degree in a quantitative or related discipline (i.e., statistics, applied statistics, mathematics, biostatistics, economics, epidemiology, computer science, social or behavioral sciences, health sciences, business, or other related field) and 3 or more years of relevant professional work experience.

Or

• a bachelor's degree in a quantitative or related discipline and 6 or more years of relevant professional work experience.

Or

• 12 or more years of relevant professional work experience.

Or

• an equivalent combination of education and work experience may be considered.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.