[Hiring] Senior Data and Policy Analyst @State of Washington

Role Description

As the Senior Data and Policy Analyst, you will provide expert-level research and analysis to help shape agency policies, programs, and operations. Your primary focus will be young drivers and driver training policy implementation, with additional work supporting public safety, customer-focused initiatives, and operational efficiency. You will exercise independent judgment to address complex issues with broad agency impact, helping every Washington resident live, work, drive, and thrive.

• Conduct in-depth research on complex issues to provide reliable, actionable information to agency leadership to support informed, data-driven decision-making.
• Evaluate proposed changes for costs, equity, feasibility, effectiveness, and potential impacts.
• Assess policy and program outcomes and recommend improvements based on your findings.
• Advise agency leaders, project teams, and external partners on agency initiatives and policy issues by providing analytical expertise and research-supported insights.
• Identify emerging trends, data limitations, and information gaps to guide future research.
• Prepare clear reports and presentations that make complex findings accessible to diverse audiences.
• Provide timely, accurate data and analysis to support legislative reporting requirements.
• Review studies and analytical products across DOL for accuracy, consistency, and credibility.

Qualifications

• Seven (7) years of demonstrated experience in two (2) or more of the following areas:
  • Conducting in-depth research or data analysis
  • Analyzing policies, laws, rules, or regulations
  • Conducting business process analysis
  • Leading business projects
  • Business policy development
• Experience must include three (3) years of experience:
  • Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data, in preparing effective and accurate narrative, statistical, and graphical reports to communicate findings and recommendations.
  • Working with large data sets; identifying data trends, inconsistencies, inaccuracies, or incomplete information for complex analytical topics.
  • Using Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint to create, compose, and edit written and illustrated materials, presentations, correspondence, reports, and spreadsheets.
• The ability to:
  • Go deeper and deeper into the data to seek the needed information.
  • Understand and follow agency values of respect, trust, diversity, equity and inclusion through behaviors and decisions.
  • Promote and support a respectful, equitable, and inclusive workplace for all employees.
  • Promote and support respectful, equitable, and inclusive delivery of services to customers.
  • Take action to learn and grow.
  • Take action to meet the needs of others.
• Experience can be obtained concurrently.
• Up to six (6) years of relevant education (in business admin, public admin, law, political science, statistics, economics, mathematics, epidemiology, or a related field) may substitute year for year for experience:
  • Associate's degree = 2 years
  • Bachelor’s degree = 4 years
  • Master's degree = 6 years

Requirements

• A higher education degree in business administration, public administration, law, political science, statistics, economics, mathematics, computer science, or a related field.
• Demonstrated strong analytical skills working with structured datasets in a variety of formats and tools commonly used in DOL, including Excel Pivot Tables, SQL services, R, Python, and Power BI.
• Experience in project management, which could include explaining the purpose of a project, defining roles and responsibilities, creating project plans, managing timelines and deliverables, risks, identifying outcomes, and communicating statuses and other information to stakeholders and staff at all levels of an organization with the ability to work with others to enhance and enable work plan implementation.
• Professional experience conducting quantitative research of the impact of programs, interventions, policy changes, and/or predictive analytics relevant to public safety, licensing, and regulation services.
• Demonstrated experience conducting presentations verbally or written to include the organization of materials accurately conveying the information, recommendations, or assessments.
• One (1) year of experience developing solutions in Geographic Information System (GIS) environments.

Benefits

• Prior to new hire, a pre-employment check including criminal record history will be conducted. Information from the background check will not necessarily preclude employment but will be considered in determining the applicant’s suitability and competence to perform in the position.
• DOL is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, we will take the steps to ensure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations.

How to Apply

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• Attach a current:
  • Cover Letter
  • Resume
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