Director of Analytics - Urbandale, United States - Longwood University

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The New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city's housing, and diversity and strength in the city's neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.

• We maintain building and resident safety and health
• We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability
• We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.

HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of "

Housing Our Neighbors:
A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness," Mayor Adams' comprehensive housing framework.

To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion—the largest in the city's history.

This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City's complex housing crisis, by addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing homeownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.

Your Team:

The Office of Policy & Strategy (OPS) leverages its expertise to guide and support HPD and its many Offices in their efforts to deepen their impact, optimize their efficiency, and become more data-driven, compliance-attentive, climate-adaptive, and mission-focused.

To do so, OPS collaborates with staff and senior leadership from across the Agency, as well as with representatives from other Agencies.

OPS carries out its work through delivery of rigorous data, policy, and financial/credit analysis; technical and statistical research; compliance awareness and adherence; and techniques in program visioning and design to all of HPD's areas of practice.

OPS is comprised of the Division of Housing Policy, the Division of Strategic Operations and Analytics, the Credit & Special Underwriting team, and the Sustainability Office.

The Director of Analytics & Data Strategy is a data leader within Strategic Operations and Analytics (SOA), which works to increase HPD's impact by analyzing and improving operations agency-wide.

We do this by clarifying HPD program missions, objectives, and stakeholders; implementing initiatives that advance HPD's goals; analyzing data to deliver actionable insights to HPD programs; and increasing the agency's overall ability to leverage data.

Your Impact:

As Director of Analytics & Data Strategy, you will design and implement analytic solutions that deliver insights to internal and external stakeholders.

You and your team will enable data driven decision-making and public data transparency, towards improving housing programs for New Yorkers.

Your Role:

Reporting to the Executive Director of Business Intelligence & Data Innovation, your role will be to work across the agency to grow traditional and self-service business intelligence (BI) tools – and other data pipelines; drive adoption of new analytic tools; oversee open data initiatives; and foster a strong data culture at all organizational levels.

Your Responsibilities:

• Implement and expand analytic solutions (in partnership with tech teams) that deliver insights to internal and external stakeholders. Provide thought leadership on how to modernize agency data pipelines, infrastructure, and reporting.
• Supervise a small team of analysts in delivering dashboards, open datasets, and other analytic products that improve operations and decision-making for HPD housing programs
• Act as data enthusiast, collaborating closely with HPD's Tech team and building relationships with staff and leadership across the agency
• Develop strategies and expand tools for effective data analysis and reporting using tools and software such as Python, Power BI, Oracle BI, SQL, GIS, and more
• Manage special analytic projects to further integrate and leverage data in agency operations
• Cultivate an agency-wide network of data-savvy staff and democratize data access where possible

Preferred Skills

The ideal candidate will be a collaborative leader, and problem-solver with the following skills:

• Strong data enthusiast with experience implementing (or expanding adoption of) new analytic tools
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to convey technical concepts with staff at all levels
• Skills in Python, R, or SQL (or similar); Experience with business intelligence tools (e.g., Power BI or Tableau)
• Ability to create or lead trainings on using data, dashboards, or analytic tools
• Interest in open data and/or improving government operations with data
• Supervisory or management experience is preferred

Preferred Qualifications:
A graduate degree in a relevant field is a plus. Candidates without government experience with an interest in applying their skills to HPD's mission are welcome to apply.
Additional Information

HPD's vision is to promote strength and diversity in our workforce and an inclusive and equitable work environment.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs.

For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education's website at

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