Data & Policy Analyst - SFPD (1823)
Job Description
The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) seeks a well-qualified data analyst to push forward the boundaries of knowledge within the criminal justice space. Hailed by the New York Times in 2020 as a major city department “where police reform has worked,” the San Francisco Police Department’s commitment to top-to-bottom reform continues as an ongoing department-wide effort. Are you interested in using data to advance policing in the 21st century? To use your expertise to inform and shape policies and decisions of our senior leaders?
The Strategic Management Bureau (SMB) of the SFPD manages all major strategic projects for the department, including police reform, change management, technology implementation, auditing, data transparency and policy implementation. As our new data & policy analyst, you would immediately contribute to ongoing and yet to be approved projects at the department level, in one of the top 20 law enforcement agencies in the nation by size. This position would be on the Business Analysis Team, subordinate to the Strategic Management Bureau.
Under general direction of the SMB Program Manager and Business Analysis Team Lead, the 1823 Senior Administrative Analyst functions as a Senior Data & Policy Analyst employing generally accepted academic analysis techniques on dozens of available datasets. You will join our team as a ‘practicing academic’ to assist the department in the development of its internal evaluation and academic unit. You will help identify opportunities for experimentation in day-to-day operations and leverage your knowledge of economic principles and the social sciences to help improve the Department and the policing profession. You will work with a team of 2-3 similarly qualified ‘practicing academics’, or “pracademics” who work to generate and validate new knowledge around the best practices in policing, and how the SFPD fits into those practices to our Department, to our accountability partners, to local, state, and federal government entities, and to the public at large.
Key Objectives: You will work with a wide variety of data to produce answers to complex questions and tell human centered, data informed stories that increase transparency, efficiency, and advance the field of policing.
Essential Duties:
Qualifications
In order to be considered, you must possess the following education and experience:
1. Education : Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university,
AND
2. Experience : Three (3) years full-time equivalent experience performing professional-level analytical work. Qualifying professional-level analytical work includes analysis, development, administration, and reporting in major programs and functions of an organization in the areas of budgets, contracts, grants, policy, or other functional areas related to the duties of positions in the 182X Class series.
Desirable Qualifications: The stated desirable qualifications may be considered at the end of the selection process when candidates are referred for hiring.
One year of full-time employment is equivalent to 2000 hours. (2000 hours of qualifying work experience is based on a 40-hour work week.) Any overtime hours that you work above forty (40) hours per week are not included in the calculation to determine full-time employment.
Verification of Education and Experience: Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process. If education verification is required, information on how to verify education requirements, including verifying foreign education credits or degree equivalency, can be found at https://sfdhr.org/how-verify-education-requirements
Note: Falsifying one’s education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.
All work experience, education, training and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline. Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications.
Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed City and County of San Francisco application.
Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility or disqualification.
Additional Information
Background Investigation: Prior to employment with the San Francisco Police Department, a thorough background investigation will be conducted to determine the candidate’s suitability for employment. The investigation may include, but not be limited to: criminal history records, driving records, drug/alcohol screening, and other related employment and personal history records. Reasons for rejection may include use of controlled substances and alcohol, felony conviction, repeated or serious violations of the law, inability to work with co-workers, inability to accept supervision, inability to follow rules and regulations or other relevant factors. Candidates may be required to undergo drug/alcohol screening, and must clear Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation fingerprinting. Criminal records will be carefully reviewed; candidates who do not report their complete criminal records on their applications will be disqualified. Applicants will be fingerprinted.
Recruiter Information : If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the Human Resources Analyst, Anna Duong at anna.d.duong@sfgov.org.
Additional Information Regarding Employment with the City and County of San Francisco:
SFPD Recruitment: https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/career
The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.