Specialist, Housing Analytics - Brampton, Canada - Regional Municipality of Peel

Regional Municipality of Peel

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Brampton, Canada

1 week ago

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Description

Job Description:

Specialist, Housing Analytics

Human Services -

Housing Services

Status: 1 Regular Full Time

Salary Range:
$86,443 to $108,052 per annum (plus comprehensive benefits)

Work Mode:
Remote

_see below for more details about this work mode._

Location: 10 Peel Centre Drive, Brampton

Hours of Work: 35 hours per week

Who we are:

Come join the Housing Services team, where we lead service system planning and management of housing and homelessness programs and services to help people get and keep housing.

We are passionately committed to ensuring stable, affordable, appropriate housing and supports in Peel.

The Role:

What you will do in this role:

Lead highly complex and specialized statistical analysis and problem-solving utilizing data from widely varied housing and homelessness programs and services.
Mine historical data to discover trends and patterns and develop algorithms to validate existing assumptions and processes.
Guide the development of sophisticated data visualization, advanced web graphic technology and interactive tools to make large datasets coherent in order to better understand patterns and explain complex issues and results to decisionmakers, partners and the general public.
Will contribute to establishing, maintaining, optimizing and maximizing return from specialized data analysis tools and purchased/subscription based data sets.
Develop and maintain internal relationships with other corporate groups to ensure Housing Services analytics solutions align with Enterprise Business Intelligence Strategy.
Provide project management leadership in the design and delivery of assigned projects including developing and implementing fullscale project plans, determining project priorities/scope, project documentation and accountability for deliverables. Perform Administrator functions for specialized Housing Services data bases.
Implement divisional policies, standards, procedures and best practices (governance) with Housing Services impact in the following areas: information privacy, data integration, linkage of data sets, data warehousing, data quality, and data utilization.
Monitor emerging industry trends and adjust governance, tools, advice and recommendations accordingly for all program and service responsibilities and champion change at the department level.
Communicate with management and various stakeholders regarding findings, measurement reporting and evaluation of options.
Maintain collaborative and supportive working relationships with key stakeholders such as senior management, IT staff and other key internal and external groups contributing to human services program areas.

What the role requires:

A University degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Science or Data Science related discipline combined with a minimum of 5 years direct relevant and extensive work experience.

Combination of education and experience may be considered.

Advanced statistics, descriptive and predictive modeling experience utilizing statistical software packages such as R, SPSS, STATA, etc.
Ability to use a sophisticated blend of classical and advanced components like artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, databases, traditional statistics and graphics to present hidden relationships and patterns found within structured and unstructured data sets.

Skills/Abilities:

Skilled in generating decision trees, cluster analysis, text analytics, structural equation modeling and data visualization.
Expert knowledge of Bl concepts and data mining techniques e.g. Associations Discovery, Sequential Pattern Discovery, Classification, Clustering and Forecasting.
Familiarity with data visualization tools and the ability create custom visualizations using combinations of open source and commercial tools. (MS Power BI would be an asset).
Proficient in use of MS office tools, in particular Excel. Skilled in Access use and creation of databases.
Highly effective written and verbal communicator, adept in the delivery of presentations as an Subject Matter Expert (SME), and as part of a dynamic team of highly skilled professionals.
Communication style is characterized by diplomacy, clarity and candour.
Highly successful and experienced with supporting analytical projects and applied knowledge of project management methodology.
Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias.
Comprehensive Health, Dental, Vision benefit plan including psychological health (effective start date)
Automatic enrolment into OMERS pension plan
Accrue Vacation on a monthly basis up to 3 weeks per annum
3 Paid personal days and floating holidays
Flexible hours supporting your wellness and wellbeing
Annual performance review and merit increases based on performance
Supportive leadership and a culture of respect an