Regional Data Coordinator

Company Description

Background

Since 1976, St. Joseph Center has been meeting the needs of low-income and homeless individuals and families in Venice, Santa Monica, Mar Vista, and surrounding communities.  The Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community organization that assists people without regard for religious affiliation or lack thereof through comprehensive case management and integrated social service programs.  The Center enjoys broad-based community support as well as a sponsored relationship with its founders, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.  St. Joseph Center serves approximately 6,000 individuals annually.

Brief Description of Principal Activities

Multifaceted intervention, prevention, and education services are carried out at four sites on the Westside of Los Angeles.  St. Joseph Center’s integrated programs provide clients with concentrated and coordinated access to services according to the nature of their needs.

Job Description

Job Summary

The Regional Data Coordinator serves as a team member with several social service professional and paraprofessional staff ensuring the delivery of quality care for contracted agencies as well as adhering to the mission of St. Joseph Center.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

The Regional Data Coordinator key areas of responsibility include:

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Serve as the primary data evaluator and needs identifier for their Service Planning Area (SPA). In collaboration with other data analysts in their SPA will aggregate and track regional performance.
• Work alongside the CES Regional Coordinator to identify opportunities for performance improvement and the resources necessary to help attain that.
• Work directly with the Home For Good team to help develop tools and identify system enhancements that will further support improvements in data collection, report generation, and overall data access and implementation.

Essential Duties:

• Document data management policies and procedures.
• Enrollment in all critical HMIS trainings, particularly for the “Looker” reporting tool
• Design, develop and implement regular reports for various audiences including staff, board members, donors, press, etc.
• Collaboration with the other regional leads within the region to identify specific performance issues and potential remedies
• Participation in quarterly HACademy meetings with other Regional Data Coordinators and Home For Good team
• Participation in quarterly on-site focused check-ins with Home For Good team
• Participation in at least one community-wide convening, highlighting regional successes, challenges, and innovations
• Perform other tasks and special projects as required.

Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned. The duties and responsibilities listed are designed to provide typical examples of the work performed; not all duties and responsibilities assigned are included here, nor is it expected that all similar positions will be assigned every duty and responsibility.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Must be highly motivated and a self-starter. Must have the ability to communicate with and relate to a diverse group of people including clients, community, and other staff. Must have excellent administrative and organizational skills.

• Strong time management, data analysis skills, great attention to detail, and the ability to multitask.
• The ability to make decisions independently and in collaboration with staff across your region and external partners
• Must have excellent communication skills, including the ability to clearly present data to a variety of audiences.
• A bilingual background is a plus.

• The position requires an ability to work flexible hours including some early mornings and evenings.

Experience:

• Experience working with homelessness data in the Los Angeles Continuum of Care (CoC) is required
• Experience with visualization and mapping tools such as Visio, Tableau, GIS required
• Some community organizing and/or coalition building experience preferred
• Some experience in providing direct services to homeless/formerly homeless people preferred

Education:

• Bachelor degree or higher from an accredited college or university in social work, social sciences, public administration, public health, or a related field.

Direct Reports:

• This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

Computer Skills:

• Computer literacy required. Must be proficient in Internet r