Program Analyst

About the role

The Department of Public Safety's mission is to safeguard and preserve the lives and property of the people of North Carolina through preparation, prevention, and protection with integrity and honor. Our agency houses many public safety divisions, including Emergency Management, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Alcohol Law Enforcement, Samarcand Training Academy, and the North Carolina National Guard. Join us along with our more than 3,000 employees and 12,000 National Guard members in providing exceptional public safety services to the citizens of North Carolina.

Responsibilities

• Development and reporting of the criminal justice data repository project, a long-term project that aims to centralize criminal justice datasets, develop criminal justice system measures, and create dynamic reports with visual analytics software.
• Listen to the need for criminal justice information expressed by policymakers and stakeholders, identify data to inform the issue, conduct appropriate data analysis, and create reports understandable for the specific audience.
• Performs data linkages between disparate data sources, developing code to produce required result sets, while assuring measures to optimize data efficiency and quality.
• Collaboration with multiple business partners, vendors and agency management to understand the data requirements, provide status updates during standing meetings, perform file submissions and handle data related questions and issues.
• Performs social research duties (e.g. evaluating evidence-based models for effective programs and services, defining and tracking performance measures, designing quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection, and/or performing statistical data analysis).

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an appropriately accredited institution and five (5) years of progressive experience related to the area of assignment; or an equivalent combination of training and experience. The related area should be in social science, statistics, or criminal justice research.

Skills

• Experience programming in applications (e.g. SAS/SQL for data analysis and creating graphics/visualizations using SAS Visual Analytics or other software).
• Working knowledge of the criminal justice system.

Benefits

State Benefits, including paid vacation, paid sick leave, paid holidays, retirement, and health insurance. Eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

Pay

Salary Recruitment Range: $67,122.00 - $97,850.00

Schedule

This is a full-time position (40 hours per week). The work schedule is Monday through Friday (8AM – 5PM). This position qualifies for teleworking on a part-time basis as part of the State Telework Program.