Deputy Chief of Data Analytics

Description

This office serves the more than 1.4 million people of Bronx County. It aims for public safety and equal justice at once, supporting crime victims while protecting the fairness owed to defendants.

It also weighs when harsh penalties serve justice and when they do not. This is a senior post in the Strategic Planning & Analytics Bureau, reporting to the Bureau Chief. The aim is prosecution that is fair, effective, and accountable, and you help use data to guide decisions, daily operations, and the rollout of prosecution policies.

Civil service title: Executive Program Specialist, code 07014.

Responsibilities

• Help the Bureau Chief set the office's analytics, research, and evaluation plan so it matches the District Attorney's priorities.
• Lead and supervise data analysts, and keep building standard systems for managing and analyzing data.
• Check that every result and product meets a high quality bar.
• Help the Bureau Chief turn organizational goals into concrete analytics and research agendas.
• Advise on analytic methods suited to prosecution and criminal justice, including case flow, dispositions, charging, diversion, gun violence, domestic violence, policy and program work, and other office priorities.
• Make sure analyses are accurate, sound, complete, relevant, and useful for action.
• Review work before release for quality, clarity, and relevance, especially where findings shape policy or reports.
• Work with legal bureaus to learn their workflows and questions, use data to find operational problems, screening and charging patterns, or referral issues, and build data-driven fixes with them.
• Set metrics for new policy rollouts, track implementation, and flag early trends or problems.
• Read trends in context, including crime and policing patterns, court operations, law changes, and data quality limits in justice-system databases.

Requirements

• Required: at least 5 years of supervisory or management experience, preferably in criminal justice, data analysis, or research in a nonprofit or public sector setting.
• Preferred: an advanced degree in criminal justice, social sciences, public policy, statistics, or a related field.
• Preferred: advanced data analysis skills with tools and relational databases such as Azure cloud platforms, SQL, R, SPSS, SAS, Stata, Power BI, and similar.
• Preferred: strong quantitative skills and solid grounding in research and evaluation methods.
• Preferred: strong knowledge of criminal justice systems and data sources, including arrests, courts, and department of corrections data.
• Preferred: strong project management and supervision skills in a team setting.
• Preferred: excellent written and verbal communication and organization skills.
• Preferred: a results-driven approach, comfort juggling several tasks, and meeting deadlines.

Conditions

The company is an equal opportunity employer that works to build a diverse workforce and bars discrimination and harassment based on legally protected status.