Associate Data Analyst
About the role
The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI) is the State planning agency for criminal justice, juvenile justice, traffic safety, and victim services. ICJI is designated as the State Administering Agency for the distribution of federal funds, and as the State Statistical Analysis Center for research.
Responsibilities
- Affords assistance in transferring raw data to the appropriate location for use in data analysis projects.
- Utilizes existing documentation and guidance from senior staff to wrangle, clean, and validate agency data sources.
- Contributes to general analysis of agency datasets.
- Conducts data quality checks to ensure the validity and cleanliness of agency datasets prior to their use in analysis and reporting.
- Interprets data and from multiple sources using a variety of analytical techniques, ranging from simple data aggregation to data mining, to support statistical methodologies.
- Develops compelling data visualizations to communicate findings to target audience(s).
- Adheres to HIPAA, PII, PHI and other state statutes concerned with protecting data confidentiality and individual privacy.
Requirements
Salary: The salary for this position traditionally starts at $55,224.00 but may be commensurate with education and work experience. Use our Compensation Calculator to view the total compensation package.
A Day In The Life: The essential functions of this role are as follows:
- Affords assistance in transferring raw data to the appropriate location for use in data analysis projects.
- Utilizes existing documentation and guidance from senior staff to wrangle, clean, and validate agency data sources.
- Contributes to general analysis of agency datasets.
- Conducts data quality checks to ensure the validity and cleanliness of agency datasets prior to their use in analysis and reporting.
- Interprets data and from multiple sources using a variety of analytical techniques, ranging from simple data aggregation to data mining, to support statistical methodologies.
- Develops compelling data visualizations to communicate findings to target audience(s).
- Adheres to HIPAA, PII, PHI and other state statutes concerned with protecting data confidentiality and individual privacy.
Qualifications
- Experience with data manipulation, including cleansing, standardizing, and transforming.
- Knowledge of statistical software, open-source programming languages, and database querying or demonstrated ability to learn.
- Experience with SQL, Tableau, R, Python, PowerBI, and/or ArcGIS.
- Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
- Broad knowledge of data analysis, analytics, or statistics or demonstrated ability to learn.
- Ability to work in a team environment with multiple and fluid demands.
- Ability to maintain effective and professional working relationships with internal and external customers.
Skills
- Experience with data manipulation, including cleansing, standardizing, and transforming.
- Knowledge of statistical software, open-source programming languages, and database querying or demonstrated ability to learn.
- Experience with SQL, Tableau, R, Python, PowerBI, and/or ArcGIS.
- Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
- Broad knowledge of data analysis, analytics, or statistics or demonstrated ability to learn.
Benefits
The State of Indiana offers a comprehensive benefit package for full-time employees which includes:
- Three (3) medical plan options (including RX coverage) as well as vision and dental plans.
- Wellness Rewards Program: Complete wellness activities to earn gift card rewards.
- Health savings account, which includes bi-weekly state contribution.
- Deferred compensation 457(b) account (similar to 401(k) plan) with employer match.
- Two (2) fully-funded pension plan options.
- A robust, comprehensive program of leave policies covering a variety of employee needs, including but not limited to: 150 hours of paid New Parent Leave and up to eight weeks of paid Childbirth Recovery Leave for eligible mothers.
- Up to 15 hours of paid community service leave.
- Cumulative 180 hours of paid vacation, personal, and sick leave time off.
- Twelve (12) paid holidays, fourteen (14) on election years.
- Education Reimbursement Program.
- Group life insurance.
- Free parking for most positions.
- Free LinkedIn Learning access.
Pay
The salary for this position traditionally starts at $55,224.00 but may be commensurate with education and work experience. Use our Compensation Calculator to view the total compensation package.
Schedule
This position is exempt from overtime compensation for additional work hours which may be required to complete essential functions or other assigned work. Exempt employees may work more than 75 hours in a pay period without additional compensation and must report a minimum of 75 hours per pay period of work hours and/or paid leave taken to receive their base biweekly salary.