Senior Staff Analyst - Data Analytics Specialization

About the role

The Data & Analytics Unit supports decision-making across the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) through the collection, analysis, and interpretation of healthcare data. Key responsibilities include managing patient care and operational data, identifying trends, predicting outcomes, and improving service delivery. The unit ensures data integrity, security, and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead agile project and program management efforts, ensuring timely execution, alignment with department goals, and effective risk mitigation in a high-velocity environment.
• Manage business and technical requirements gathering, collaborating with stakeholders to define business rules and measures, ensuring alignment with SQL-based data structures where applicable.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans in Smartsheet, tracking tasks, dependencies, deadlines, and action items at a granular level with frequent updates.
• Facilitate Data & Analytics (D&A) meetings, ensuring stakeholder engagement through effective and timely communication, capturing key decisions, tracking follow-ups, and managing meeting documentation while actively driving closure on assigned action items.
• Prepare project status reports, executive updates, and performance metrics to communicate progress, risks, and key milestones.
• Create clear, well-structured reports, policy documents, business cases, and stakeholder presentations for the D&A unit.
• Support hiring and talent development by drafting job descriptions, participating in interview panels, and contributing to onboarding activities.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders to promote data governance best practices and advance organizational objectives while ensuring accountability for assigned deliverables.
• Track, coordinate, and continuously update daily tasks and action items, ensuring work is properly assigned, progress is visible, and bottlenecks are escalated and resolved.
• Manage and monitor multiple quality measures, maintaining a working understanding of each measure, its dependencies, and its assigned owners.

Requirements

• The ideal candidate should have a strong background in project and program management, business analysis, and agile methodologies, particularly within a Data & Analytics unit.
• Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to manage significant task volume, complexity, and pace without loss of accuracy or follow-through are required.
• Excellent writing and communication skills to produce well-structured reports, policy documents, and strategic recommendations are necessary.
• Candidates should have experience leading requirements-gathering sessions, defining business rules and measures, and collaborating with technical teams to ensure data structures align with business needs.
• Familiarity with Smartsheet, Jira, or other project management tools is essential for tracking and managing project deliverables in a real-time, execution-focused environment.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative field (e.g., Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline); advanced degree preferred.
• Five years of experience in business analysis, project management, or program management, including gathering and documenting requirements, managing projects, and coordinating stakeholders across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Experience using agile methodologies, particularly in software and data product development within fast-paced delivery environments.
• Experience defining business rules and measures, with an understanding of how SQL-based data structures support these requirements and how those measures are operationally tracked and maintained.
• Experience using Smartsheet, Jira, or similar project management tools to track project status, action items, and dependencies at a detailed, task-level scale.
• Experience developing a variety of stakeholder materials, including concise presentations, training guides, and business case documents.