ICCIP Data Analyst

Position Summary 

The Office of Safe Neighborhoods is seeking a full-time Data Analyst to oversee efforts to improve the use of criminal justice, human services, and other administrative data by transforming data into routine reports, dashboards, and geospatial analytics to support criminal justice planning and operations for its Incarcerated Community Crisis Intervention Program (ICCIP). 

The Incarcerated Community Crisis Intervention Program aims to reduce violence in correctional facilities and communities. Using a Credible Messenger model, community leaders engage individuals both in prisons and in the community. The program fosters collaboration, conflict resolution, and resource sharing between communities and facilities. 

Through data support the Data Analyst will ensure that all performance measures and goals are consistently met. This position will also be tasked with coordinating with other OPS and City staff, law enforcement personnel, social service providers, and community members.   

Essential Functions 

• Carries out aspects of research and data analysis projects under the supervision of the OSN Director of Strategic Planning and & Analysis as well as the OPS Director of Performance Management & Technology. 

• Manages and designs the reporting environment, including data sources, security, and metadata. 

• Develops project requirements and coordinates extensively with subject matter experts, technical staff, and end-users. 

• Processes confidential information in accordance with federal, state, and local regulations. 

• Provides technical assistance to department staff and IT staff from partner agencies whose data OPS uses to program key performance indicators. 

• Performs statistical analyses for projects and reports. 

• Develop graphs, detailed statistical reports, and presentations of project results and routine data needs. 

• Updates, implements, and maintains procedures for replicating analytic products. 

• Develop project management plans and monitors the timeliness of milestones that ensure adequate completion of deliverables. 

• Advise on data collection and performance measurement activities for program and policy development purposes. 

• Supports implementation through database development, conducting baseline analyses, and creating ongoing reporting frameworks. 

• Serves as a liaison with academic partners on formal evaluations or external analyses. 

• Facilitate improved data and information sharing between OPS and other City and non-city partners. 

• Apply a racial equity lens to data analysis and evaluation projects. 

Competencies, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities 

• Strong quantitative skills, including an ability to use statistical programs to organize and analyze large amounts of data 

• Experience working with large datasets and relational databases  

• Knowledge of Philadelphia neighborhoods with an emphasis on the Philadelphia Police Department's Pinpoint areas  

• Experience with criminal justice system data 

• Project management experience 

• Data management and technical analysis skills 

• Business writing and documentation; visualization of summary data 

• Communication and interpersonal skills 

• Experience with technical assistance and applied research 

• Strong writing skills and demonstrated ability to translate/synthesize data into precise products that are accessible to a non-technical audience 

• Commitment to using data to reduce racial, ethnic, and economic disparities within the criminal justice system 

• Experience applying a racial equity lens to data analysis, policy, and program evaluation (preferred) 

• Track record of delivering results in a high-pressure/crisis environment with multiple workstreams 

Work-Life 

Working hours are generally 37.5 hours per week.  All employees report in-office five (5) days per week.