Community Programs Predictive Data Analyst 11.14.23

Organization Overview

Founded in 2004, Brilliant Corners provides innovative housing and housing-related services to California’s most vulnerable individuals, with an emphasis on those transitioning from, or at risk of, homelessness or institutionalization. We develop, own, and manage multi-family supportive housing and licensed residential care homes. We implement a broad array of scattered-site, one-on-one supportive housing, and clinical case management programs through partnerships with developmental services, homeless services, veterans’ services, and health care sectors.

In short, we do good work.

We have offices throughout California, currently have almost 500 staff members, and are growing daily. We’re looking for inspired, talented people who want to be part of a team that’s affecting profound change and is having fun doing it.

POSITION SUMMARY

This Data Analyst role will be contracted with DHS as part of our partnership in the Housing for Health program.

Housing for Health was founded in 2012 to provide housing and services to patients who frequented County public hospitals
and were homeless. The program has grown to now provide a full continuum of services to clients, from street outreach to interim housing to permanent housing, with case management, benefits advocacy, and clinical services layered across all service categories. Housing for Health maintains its core ethos and founding principles of improving the health and quality of life of the most vulnerable homeless individuals in L.A. County. Community Programs is a program office within Health Services Administration, a division under the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS). In addition to other responsibilities, this position will have a supportive role in the tracking, reporting, quality assurance, and billing efforts for CalAIM, a Medi-Cal waiver program.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Reporting and Analysis
• Assists department stakeholders to define data needs and requirements to ensure data science projects meet business needs at the community, regional, divisional, departmental, or county-wide level
• Uses statistical programming languages and packages, computer scripting languages, and/or domain-specific languages to digest, manipulate, prepare, augment, evaluate, analyze, summarize, and visualize data
• Conducts end-to-end predictive data modeling projects that include basic exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, model selection, deployment of models into production environments, and visualization of findings
• Performs data management and manipulation, including the writing of data queries of departmental databases and data marts, data cleaning, and joining of multiple and disparate data sets
• Extracts and organizes data and applies quality-control techniques to ensure the accuracy and completeness of all data; researches source documents and coordinates with others to resolve missing or conflicting data and other anomalies
• Ensures regular reporting occurs within specified deadlines
• Regularly creates deliverables for special projects and assignments, such as ad-hoc department reporting and program analyses
• Creates documentation for the processes and procedures used for reporting and analyses
• Tool Development and Maintenance
• Collaborates with other department subject matter experts to understand, identify, and select available and relevant sources of data for use cases, including internal and external data sources
• Helps refine program management practices through the creation of new reporting and analytical tools
• Helps to design, build, and maintain analytical support tools to be used within the Department of Health Services, by housing and service providers, and by other external stakeholders
• Project Management:
• Collaborates with data administrators and other IT staff to develop data pipelines and ensure the availability of quality data
• Convenes and facilitates discussions with stakeholders to design and implement tools and reports
• Manages the design, development, implementation and maintenance of reports, dashboards and analysis tools
• Program and Provider Support
• Works with program staff to understand the implications of analyses and to ensure that findings are actionable and support data-driven program, policy, and operational decision- making.
• Assists in coordinating with various functional teams to develop and implement products, services, tools, or business process changes resulting from the analysis.
• Provides regular analyses of the impact of changes in management practices and policies
• Designs