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New York City Police Department · 3 weeks ago

City Research Scientist, Level II

NYC Metro Area

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

3+ years exp

The New York City Police Department is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in New York City through community partnership and law enforcement. They are seeking a City Research Scientist, Level II to assist in maintaining databases, conducting data integrity checks, and creating data visualization tools to support compliance research metrics.

Law Enforcement

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Assist in maintaining Division databases and access other Department databases to provide the Department with data relevant to compliance research metrics through the use of several analytical programs and languages (eg. Cognos, Python and SQL)

Maintain data dictionaries and other relevant documentation related to data maintained and created by the Civilian Complaint Statistical Analysis Unit

Conduct routine data integrity checks on datasets. Identify and report issues and discrepancies in generated data

Conduct data maintenance and design general project automation tools to be used by staff

Create and maintain data visualization tools such as Power Bi dashboards

Qualification

PythonSQLData analysisData visualizationRelational databasesMicrosoft Office SuiteAnalytic skillsTechnical skillsOrganizational skills

Required

A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and one year of full-time experience in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization

A master's degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and three years of responsible full-time research experience in the appropriate field of specialization

Education and/or experience which is equivalent to '1' or '2' above. However, all candidates must have at least a master's degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in '2' above

Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in '1' and '2' above

Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, Word, Adobe, Access, and PowerPoint

Experience extracting, cleaning and analyzing very large data sets

Experience with SQL and Python

Experience querying and conducting data analysis using statistical techniques and software

Experience using relational databases

Strong organizational, analytic and technical skills

Benefits

Health insurance for the employee and his or her spouse or domestic partner and unemancipated children under age 26

Union benefits such as dental and vision coverage

Paid annual leave and sick leave

Paid holidays

A pension

Optional savings and pre-tax programs such as Deferred Compensation, IRA, and a flexible spending account

Company

New York City Police Department

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Founded in 1845

New York, New York, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.nyc.gov/nypd

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