DATA AND ANALYTICS MANAGER

Position Overview

The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority’s Research & Analysis Unit is responsible for

managing numerous criminal justice and social science datasets. We seek an experienced manager to lead our data center – the Center for Criminal Justice Data and Analytics. The selected candidate will lead a team that develops public datasets and produces data reports that reach multiple audiences, including ICJIA executive staff, researchers, justice system practitioners, and legislators.  

Essential Functions

• As manager, responsible for data management
• Serves as full-line supervisor
• Retains and expands holding of a wide variety of criminal justice-related and social science datasets and keeps current to share with researchers, practitioners, legislators, and the public
• Provides statistical support to researchers in the Unit with programming related to statistical analyses and/or database-related tasks
• Conducts data and statistical presentations to internal and external audiences
• Provides data support to the Federal States Grants Unit and other projects in the Research Analysis R A Unit
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires knowledge skill and mental development equivalent to four years of college
• Requires prior experience equavilent to three years of progressively responsible administrative experience in research or research project management

Preferred Qualifications

• Prefers a master's or doctoral degree in criminal justice, criminology, sociology, public policy political science or related field
• Prefers five years experience in data analysis, data management, and data analysis code/syntax documentation
• Preferes four years working knowlege of research methodologies, study designk statistical power and significance, sample size, and randomization schemes; ability to perform advanced statistical anlyses such as regression analysis, ANOVA, factor analysis, cluster analysis, logistic regression, ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, and hierarchical linear modeling (HLM)
• Prefers four years experience with analysis of complex administrative datasets, particularly criminal justice-related data; analytical skills including critical thinking, data mining, data modeling, database development, design and data structure
• Prefers four years knowledge of the operation of the criminal justice system; proficient with statistical and visualization data software including SPSS, R, Microsoft SQL server, ArcGIS, and Tableau
• Prefers fours years experience writing and presenting scientific manuscripts as well as tose for a general audience; grant writing, budgeting, management and reporting
• Prefers three years of experience in research or research project management

Conditions of Employment

All applicants must be able to meet the following Conditions of Employment, with or without reasonable accommodations, to be considered for this position.  The State of Illinois complies with federal and state disability laws and will make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.

Requires ability to travel in the performance of duties, with overnight stays as appropriate.

Requires a valid and current driver’s license

Requires completion of a background check and self-disclosure of criminal history

The conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.

Certain provisions of the revolving door restrictions contained in 5 ILCS 430/5-45 apply to this position. As a result, the employee should be aware that if offered non-State employment during State employment or within one year immediately after ending State employment, the employee shall, prior to accepting any such non-State employment offer, notify the Office of the Executive Inspector General for the Agencies of the Illinois Governor (“OEIG”) or may be subject to a fine.