at City of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Description:
BID/JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
DATA ANALYST
OFFICE OF PUBLIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION
Public Safety Information Technology
Number of Vacancies: 2
(Additional vacancies possible pending budget approval)
Starting Salary: $64,668.00
This position is open to current AFSCME BIDDERS AND the PUBLIC. Only current City employees covered under the City’s Collective Bargaining Agreement with AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES (AFSCME) - BARGAINING UNIT 1, 3, 4, & 5 are considered BIDDERS and are eligible to bid. Qualified BIDDERS who properly submit a bid application will receive preference over any non-bidders.
BID INSTRUCTIONS : Apply on the bid site: https://chicago.taleo.net/careersection/103/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en AND
1. Check the box on your profile titled “Currently employed by the City of Chicago”
2. Enter your employee ID (located on your pay stub labeled ‘payee/employee number’)
3. Select your correct bargaining unit
FAILURE TO FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS WILL RESULT IN A REJECTED BID APPLICATION.
Applications for this position will be accepted until 11:59 pm Central time on July 24, 2024 .
Successful candidates must pass a drug screen and a background investigation. Persons offered employment must pass all pre-employment exams prior to appointment.
Under supervision, this position identifies, captures, analyzes, and manages data contributing to better decision-making and planning.
This class is assigned to the City’s Analyst Information Technology Job Family which consists of analysts that work with stakeholders to identify and define needs/issues, document requirements, perform analysis, solve problems with fact-based analysis, and provide recommendations.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
+ Works with varying teams to determine how data analysis can support organizational goals
+ Gathers data to support recommendations to address problems, with appropriate contingency plans
+ Analyzes large sets of data
+ Works with numerous data sources from different City entities
+ Looks for patterns, analyzes outcomes, and reports results
+ Works with stakeholders to identify priorities and outcomes for trends
+ Develops recommendations for resolution of problems and reviews recommendations with theteam
+ Understands and applies information and data analysis requirements
+ Turns information into insights to support and enable key decisions and business processes
+ Supports information governance in conjunction with Architects and Data Stewards
+ Designs, creates, and maintains relational databases and data systems of moderate to high complexity
+ Works with open datasets, including populating and extracting data from internal and public open datasets
+ Performs data analysis, including conceptualization, modeling, and presentation of data
+ Performs a variety of technical tasks related to capturing, managing, and analyzing data
+ Cleans and prunes data to discard irrelevant information
+ Designs reporting dashboards to translate data into an understandable illustrative format and fulfills ad hoc reporting requests
+ Develops procedures for data validation, analysis, and presentation
+ Performs initial data exploration (e.g., binning, pivoting, summarizing, and finding correlations)
+ Implements statistical models to identify and reveal trends, patterns, and relationships in data to provide guidance to others for decision-making processes
+ Actively suggests analytics opportunities and best practices
+ Catalogs and enables access to resident and external data sources
+ Helps to streamline analytics to go from experimentation into production
+ Supports innovative efforts by driving creativity, acting with agility, and thinking outside currentboundaries
+ May create data visualizations and reports to present to audiences using presentation layer tools
Additional duties may be required for this position.
LOCATION: Office of Public Safety Administration
SECTION: Public Safety Information Technology
ADDRESS: 3510 S Michigan Ave
SHIFT: Monday through Friday
HOURS: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
THIS POSITION IS IN THE CAREER SERVICE.
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications
Graduation from an accredited college with an Associate’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a directly related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
NOTE : You must provide your transcripts or diploma, professional license, or training certificates at time of processing, if applicable.
SELECTION REQUIREMENTS
This position requires applicants to complete an interview. The interviewed candidate(s) possessing the qualifications best suited to fulfill the responsibilities of the position will be selected. Selected Bidders will be hired in seniority order according to the collective bargaining agreement.
Non-Bidders best suited to fulfill the responsibilities of the position will be selected AND
Preference will be given to candidates possessing the following:
+ Previous work experience with public safety applications (i.e. Police, Fire, or 911 technology)
+ Previous work experience with large system and database management
APPLICATION EVALUATION: Initial evaluation will be based on information provided on the application and the documents submitted. Department of Human Resource staff will review applications after the final posting date. Staff will follow any and all required Employment/Hiring Plan provisions, federal, state and local laws, and Collective Bargaining Agreements when applicable. Staff will apply hiring preferences as required by the municipal code. Placement on an eligibility list is not an offer or guarantee of an interview nor employment with the City of Chicago.
COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY: To further our commitment to hiring applicants with diverse experience the City of Chicago has adopted the following ordinances 2-74-020 and 2-74-075. The ordinances provide a preference to applicants who meet minimum qualifications and who are veterans of the Armed Forces, and/or residents of Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Areas (SEDA) and/or Chicago Public School (CPS) high school graduates to be referred to departments for consideration. These hiring preferences do not apply to bidders, as Collective Bargaining Agreements define the hiring process for bidders. For positions covered by a collective bargaining agreement, bidders will be considered before external candidates. To learn more about our hiring practices click here. (https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dhr/provdrs/emp.html)
ALL REFERENCES TO POLITICAL SPONSORSHIP OR RECOMMENDATION MUST BE OMITTED FROM ALL APPLICATION MATERIALS SUBMITTED FOR CITY EMPLOYMENT.
The City of Chicago in an Equal Employment Opportunity and Military Friendly Employer.
City of Chicago
Brandon Johnson, Mayor
