Data Analytics Specialist

In this role, you will perform data analytics within the Park Authority’s Business Office to advance strategic objectives. Responsibilities include improving analysis and reporting processes, supporting automation opportunities, and delivering accurate reports, visualizations, and data quality improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and support implementation of improvements to data analysis and reporting processes, including proactively recognizing gaps, trends, and patterns in datasets.
• Support business process automation and other technology solutions where opportunities are identified.
• Use software tools to monitor, analyze, report on, manipulate, and visualize data.
• Implement coordinated data- and analytics-related strategic objectives.
• Clean data and create datasets to support accurate analysis.
• Create data visualizations and reports, then present findings to a variety of audiences.
• Collaborate with staff, partner organizations, and stakeholders to develop and align data entry and analysis processes.
• Support development of the Park Authority’s sliding fee scale initiative using data and other analytical needs.
• Develop data sets and extracts, and support data standards and data models to help ensure complete, correct, accessible, and shareable data for information technology development projects.
• Gather and document business data, information, and analytics requirements; assist with and/or develop logical business models.
• Plan and facilitate user requirement sessions for data analysis, data standardization, and data ownership.
• Analyze business forms, reports, processes, practices, and procedures; identify data subject areas, data entities, attributes, relationships, information types, domains, and constraints.
• Maintain metadata, reporting objects, data repositories, and data dictionaries; design and run database queries to assess or validate data.
• Perform data cleansing and transformations to assess data quality; support data testing and analysis for initiatives of higher complexity.
• Attend training workshops, product demonstrations, conferences, technical briefings, and conventions; serve on committees and task forces; undertake special projects as assigned.
• Stay current on technology changes and provide assistance to other staff as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field, plus coursework in analytics and related areas (coursework includes examples such as statistics, demographics, and marketing) AND three years of data analysis and information experience in an academic, data administration, or analytics environment involving using data mod.
• Driver’s License (required).
• Completion of a criminal background check and driving record check to the satisfaction of the employer.
• Experience with one or more of the following: data reporting and analysis; scripting and/or programming for data-oriented tasks in Python and/or R; equity initiatives; business process improvement; consultation with stakeholders at all levels; dashboarding (especially in Power BI).
• Sedentary work with walking and lifting less than 5 pounds.

Technology and Tools

• Python
• R
• Microsoft Excel
• Power BI
• Agency’s recreation point-of-sale application
• Agency’s golf point-of-sale application
• Agency’s work order and asset management system
• Relational databases

Functional Areas

The assigned functional areas of this position are Data Analysis and Reporting, Data Management, and Business Process Improvement.

Selection Procedure

The selection process includes a panel interview and may include an exercise.

Role Location and Salary

Location: Fairfax, VA (onsite).
Compensation: USD 80,776 - 141,359 per year.