Data and Evaluation Associate

Job Description

Job Description

Position Summary :

This posting is with the Philadelphia Office of Children and Families (OCF) Division of Performance Management and Technology (PMT). OCF supports Philadelphia's most vulnerable children and families and prioritizes safe children, strong families, and supported schools. OCF administers a number of City- supported programs, including Out-of-School Time, Career and Connected Learning (C2L) and PHLpreK. OCF also oversees the Department of Human Services (DHS), which provides child welfare services, delinquent services, and child welfare prevention programs to promote safety, permanency, and well- being for children and youth at risk of abuse, neglect, and delinquency.

The Division of Performance Management and Technology supports the core missions of OCF and DHS in the following ways :

• Evaluating service quality and consistency, identifying needed improvements, and tracking these improvements over time;
• Building a world class data and information technology infrastructure;
• Developing and maintaining integrated information systems and data analytics so that practitioners can easily access and utilize quality and accurate data in their day-to-day decisions;
• Strengthening how the child welfare system utilizes data to make informed decisions about the children and families we serve; and
• Conducting short- and long-term research to evaluate the effectiveness of programs and system-wide initiatives in order to continually inform child welfare policy and practice.

The focus areas of responsibility of the Data and Evaluation Associate are to : 1) design rigorous mixed methods program and agency evaluations (integrating qualitative and quantitative data 2) clean, manage, integrate and analyze large data sets from OCF, system partners and other public institutions – utilizing various open source and licensed data cleaning and analytics software products 3) design, test and administer surveys to internal and external OCF stakeholders and partners - and 4) provide primary data integration and analysis support to performance management initiatives, including working with finance, child welfare and other OCF related data sets.

Duties and Responsibilities :

Skills Required : Quantitative :

General :

Physical Demands :

Ability to physically perform the duties and to work in the environmental conditions required such as maneuvering in office space – reaching file cabinets, fax, and copier machines when necessary. Must be able to sit for up for extended periods of time, with breaks, looking at the computer monitor and using a keyboard and mouse typing or performing data entry functions. Able to travel.

Education and Experience :

Equal Opportunity Employment :

PMHCC, Inc. is committed to equal opportunity. It is our policy to support equal employment for all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual preferences, age, national origin, disability, behavioral health status, military status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Americans with Disabilities Act :

Employees as well as applicants who are currently, or become disabled, must be able to perform the functions of the job with either reasonable accommodation or unaided. PMHCC, Inc. will examine reasonable accommodations on a case by case basis in accordance with the law