Program Research Specialist 1/Trainee 1 and 2 (NY HELPS)
The NYS Office of Temporary & Disability Assistance is seeking a Program Research Specialist to work within OTDA's Bureau of Data Management and Analysis. The role involves developing, maintaining, and analyzing data to support public information, reporting, program performance, budget development, and policy analysis functions.
Responsibilities
- Engaged in developing, maintaining and analyzing data from various OTDA administrative data systems and other available data sources (such as Census products) to support OTDA’s public information, reporting, program performance, budget development (fiscal estimation) and policy analysis functions
- Working with program and other interested parties to develop analysis approaches and reporting methodologies
- Using tools listed above to extract data from OTDA's various data systems and arrange the data in ways conducive to analysis and reporting
- Producing reports summarizing the results of the analysis
- Creating new and updating existing process documentation
Skills
- A bachelor's degree or higher including or supplemented by nine semester credit hours in biostatistics, data analysis, or data modeling, economics, econometrics, mathematics, research methods, or statistics for Trainee 1 level
- A bachelor's degree or higher including or supplemented by nine semester credit hours in biostatistics, data analysis, or data modeling, economics, econometrics, mathematics, research methods, or statistics, and one year of professional research experience performing the collection, manipulation (e.g., data construction, merging data files, data cleaning, working with data files containing different levels of data) and evaluation of quantitative data for Trainee 2 level
- A bachelor's degree including or supplemented by nine semester credit hours in biostatistics, data analysis, data modeling, economics, econometrics, mathematics, research methods, or statistics and two years of professional research experience performing the collection, manipulation (e.g., data construction, merging data files, data cleaning, working with data files containing different levels of data) and evaluation of quantitative data directed toward review, analysis, and presentation related to program operations for the Full Performance Level
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States
- Experience in performing quantitative data analysis, program evaluation or statistical reporting using data manipulation and statistical analysis packages (such as Structured Query Language (SQL), SPSS, SAS, MS Access and Excel)
- Experience working with large administrative data sets
- Experience working with information technology and operational staff to maintain and enhance the data infrastructure and reports needed to support data analysis and reporting functions
- Candidates with 55b/c eligibility are encouraged to apply
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