About Our Job

What We Offer 

The City and County of Denver offers a competitive salary commensurate with education and experience. New hires are typically brought into the organization between $67,161.00 - $110,816.00. We also offer generous benefits for full-time employees which include but is not limited to: 

• A guaranteed life-long monthly pension, once vested after 5 years of service 

• 457B Retirement Plan 

• 132 hours of PTO earned within first year

• 11 Paid Holidays per year, plus 1 personal holiday

• Education Refund Program (ERP) - a chance for the city to support your continued learning and career growth by investing in your future with the city

• Care Bank – 8 weeks of Paid Family Leave

• Free RTD Eco Pass

• Competitive medical, dental and vision plans effective within 1 month of start date 

Location

This position reports on site from 8:00AM to 5:00PM at the Republic Plaza building located at 370 17th St suite 5300 Denver, CO 80202.

Who We Are

The Mission of the Denver District Attorney's Office (DA) is to professionally and competently prosecute crimes and investigate criminal activity on behalf of the people of the State of Colorado and to seek equal justice for all in the criminal justice system. Our mission also includes the prevention and deterrence of crimes, supporting the well-being of victims, participating in the community, being transparent and accountable, and, improving the criminal justice system to provide fair alternatives to incarceration in appropriate cases.

What You'll Do

We are currently looking for for a Data Analytics Associate who will help identify and apply analytic knowledge and ideas to stakeholders, management, and other organizations in collaboration with department/agency team(s) to meet objectives, reduce risk, and improve efficiency and effectiveness.  

The day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Advocate for data usage by explaining usage of analytics through formal and informal means
• Address the DA's data needs on engagements, controls, monitoring, and auditing.
• Apply statistical knowledge and understanding, define data requirements, and extracts data from key business systems using Tableau, Arbutus, STATA, and Python
• Prepare, transform, analyze, visualize, and dashboard data
• Examine, identify, and provide advice on data patterns and trends to help answer business questions and improve decision making.
• Identify areas to increase efficiency and automation of data analysis processes
• Provide teams with methodological assistance with the use of data science tools to complete data analytics
• Create workpapers with clear explanation of methodology and conclusion to support department/agency engagements
• Provide advice and support to the agencies teams in cleaning, reviewing, validating, manipulating, modeling and analyzing data
• Performs other related duties as assigned

What You'll Bring

We are looking for someone with some or all the following skills and experience:

• Thorough and pays close attention to detail
• Decision Making – Specifies goals and obstacles to achieving those goals, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses the best alternative in order to make a determination, draw conclusions, or solve a problem
• Ability to solve practical problems by choosing appropriately from a variety of mathematical and statistical techniques
• Ability to express information to individuals or groups effectively and can make clear and convincing oral presentations
• Ability to access key business systems by working collaboratively with and establishing a professional relationship with city agencies such as TS (Technology Services) and business stakeholders
• Ability to gain knowledge in audit standards and methodologies.
• Skill in using various forms of computer software for preparing documents and spreadsheet work papers
• Skill in maintaining and organizing files, documents and records

Required Minimum Qualifications

We realize your time is valuable so please do not apply if you do not have at least the following required minimum qualifications:

• Education requirement: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Business Administration, or other related field

• Experience Requirement: Two (2) year of profess