Data Community Coordinator Business Intelligence Data Strategy

Agency Description:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is the nations largest municipal housing preservation and development agency. Its mission is to promote quality housing and diverse thriving neighborhoods for New Yorkers through loan and development programs for new affordable housing preservation of the affordability of the existing housing stock enforcement of housing quality standards and educational programs for tenants and building owners.

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 datadriven complianceattentive climateadaptive and missionfocused. 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. OPS is comprised of four areas: Housing Policy Strategic Operations and Analytics Credit & Valuation and Sustainability.

The Data Community Coordinator works within Strategic Operations and Analytics (SOA) which works to increase HPDs impact by analyzing and improving operations agencywide. We do this by clarifying HPD program missions objectives and stakeholders; implementing initiatives that advance HPDs goals; analyzing data to deliver actionable insights to HPD programs; and increasing the agencys overall ability to leverage data.

Your Impact:

As a Data Community Coordinator on the Business Intelligence and Data Strategy (BIDS) team within SOA you will be instrumental in building a thriving data community within HPD which is key to promoting quality affordable housing for New Yorkers. By driving engagement upskilling and fostering collaboration you will empower data practitioners to enhance their capabilities and contribute to HPDs datadriven mission. Your work will support operational efficiency promote datadriven decisionmaking and promote adherence to data governance and ethics policies across HPD.

Your Role:

Reporting to the Director of Business Intelligence & Data Strategy the Data Community Coordinator will lead efforts to build a community of data practitioners across the organization. You will organize learning events workshops and collaborative sessions supporting a culture of continuous learning and crossdepartmental data collaboration. Additionally you will play a key role in identifying skill gaps guiding technology adoption and promoting best practices for data analysis and governance.

Your Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include:

Community Building and Engagement

Develop and implement a community engagement strategy to connect and develop data practitioners in HPD
Organize regular convenings workshops and events to facilitate knowledge sharing and skill development
Curate and maintain a repository or data resources tools and case studies
Promote crossdepartmental collaboration on data initiatives and projects

Data Upskilling and Training

Develop and implement a data skills training strategy in HPD particularly around using BI tools
Conduct regular assessments to identify data skill gaps within HPD
Leverage both NYC governmentmanaged and external (e.g. DataCamp YouTube etc.) training platforms to develop and implement targeted courses workshops and bootcamps for HPD staff
As needed by the Director support initiatives related to data upskilling for HPD staff

Data Advocacy and Best Practices

Create and maintain best practices for data analysis reporting and visualization
Advocate for datadriven decisionmaking across the organization
Champion data ethics and governance by promoting responsible data use and adherence to policies

Tool and Technology Enablement

Support teams in adopting and effectively using BI tools such as Power BI and Oracle BI
Promote selfservice analytics and empower employees to explore data independently
As needed assist the Director and team in evaluating BI tools and the latest trends to improve data practices in HPD
Oversee the licensing and permissions of BI tools ensuring appropriate access based on team role and responsibility
Take lead in developing opportunities for team to collect feedback from program areas on pain points related to BI tools
As needed provide data quality support to HPD Tech to ensure data in BI tools is trustworthy
As needed help HPD program areas with querybuilding and dashboardbuilding in BI tools

Operational Support

Develop manage and transition processes related to data governance access movement and security
Conduct research as needed on emerging data topics to support organizational needs
As needed provide operational support related to HPDs Open Data work

Preferred Skills:

The ideal candidate will be an inquisitive selfstarter with strong organizational and communication skills who is passionate about making organizations more datadriven
oStrong attention to detail with the ability to manage both highlevel strategy and granular project tasks
oExcellent interpersonal and communication skills able to ask thoughtful questions to ensure understanding and facilitate collaboration across teams
oExperience organizing events workshops and/or communitybuilding activities
oExperience effectively training others in how to use technologies and tools
oStrong aptitude for learning new tools and technologies independently using online resources (e.g. YouTube DataCamp LinkedIn Learning)
oCollaborative team player with the ability to also drive things forward independently
oEnthusiastic about using data to improve government operations and policies and learning new technologies
Data Community Coordinator must have advanced Microsoft Excel skills and affinity for working with data; some experience with data analysis tools such as Python R Stata SAS or a similar language or data visualization tools (e.g. Power BI Tableau) is a plus
A Bachelors degree or equivalent experience is required; relevant graduate coursework in public policy housing data science/analytics or city government is a plus

Qualifications :

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties described above; or
2. High school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties as described above; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have at least one year of experience as described in 1 above.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime