Data and Visualization Associate

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepare reports, dashboards, and/or other presentation materials to effectively communicate data to families and children in Philadelphia communities, child welfare practitioners, mid- and senior-level child welfare leaders, and the public.
• Effectively lead and supervise project teams that advance effective data communication, advocate for best practices, and coach colleagues on implementing informative visualized data.
• Establish and lead a collaborative environment for project teams where knowledge is shared across disciplines on a regular basis to advance effective data communications.
• Co-develop, clarify and manage the scope of data-collection and reporting projects, define deliverables, and achieve targeted outcomes on time.
• Assemble and engage project teams and build collaborative relationships among project team members.
• Identify needed resources (including staff, hardware, and software), assign responsibilities, and develop timeframes to facilitate successful completion of project activities and deliverables.
• Ensure compatibility and consistency with existing architectural and enterprise standards.
• Convene and chair project meetings with stakeholders, including external agencies such as contracted providers.
• Support development of product dissemination strategies to ensure data communications are accessible to a wide array of audiences.
• Review analyses and implementation plans crafted by team members.
• Translate complex child welfare data into accessible and easy-to-understand communications supported by visualization for the general public through platforms such as Tableau and Power BI
• Communicate (verbally and in writing) effectively with stakeholders and senior business leadership about projects.
• Provide mentorship and training to staff regarding utilizing and interpreting dashboards and other data communication strategies.
• Perform related research, evaluation, and supervision duties as assigned including data systems integration and data analysis. These other duties are particularly important for identifying opportunities to improve data communications through visualization and interactive dashboards.

Skills Required

• Demonstrate effective project/team management competencies, such as establishing collaborative team structure and mechanisms, the ability to run a project or serve as project manager, and the ability to ensure a successful project lifecycle.
• Communicate (verbally and in writing) effectively with stakeholders participating in this project.
• Demonstrate presentation skills, strategic thinking, and high professional ethics.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with OCF staff and external stakeholders including other City agencies and contracted providers.
• Experience building working with relational databases to perform data analyses and build visualizations
• Experience creating and maintaining automated dashboards fed by frequently changing data
• Deep working knowledge of at least one software package that includes dashboarding features (Tableau, PowerBI, SAP BusinessObjects, Qlik, etc.)
• Knowledge of statistics, especially statistical practices related to a social science or human services related field (epidemiology, political science, psychology, sociology, sock work, etc.)
• Information design skills, including an ability to communicate about strategy and define standards related to data visualization and communication
• Demonstrate knowledge and practice of project management principles.
• Demonstrate an ability to identify several courses of action to make informed decisions about project development and implementation.
• Experience preferred in child welfare, behavioral health, education, and or human service organizations.

Education and Experience

Equal Opportunity Employment

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