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Minimum QualificationsBachelor’s degree and five years of specialized experience. Two years of the experience must have been at a supervisory level.Substitutions:•J.D. or master’s degree and four years of specialized experience.•Ph.D. and three years of specialized experience.PREFERRED QUALIFICATION: Ability to initiate and maintain relationships across a diverse set of stakeholders.Duties DescriptionAs a Project Coordinator within the Research and Statistics Bureau, the incumbent will perform the following duties but are not limited to the following:• Demonstrate the ability to work in a multidisciplinary environment, helping researchers with data integration and management and developing pipelines to empower data analysis throughout scientific and translational research.•Responsible for managing and training other staff in the Bureau in areas of subject matter expertise.•Designing and executing analysis independently and collaboratively with other research scientists and subject matter experts, including interacting with other research/data scientists in NYSDOL.• Presenting and publishing plans, processes, or findings at conferences/journals.•Collaborate with economists, analysts, and others working in this area to identify relevant public and confidential data sources (labor market data, education data, etc.).•Develop data pipelines to extract data from various sources, ensuring secure access to confidential data.•Clean and pre-process the data to handle inconsistencies, missing values, formatting issues, etc.•Design and implement a secure data storage system to handle large volumes of data from diverse sources.•Build and maintain data warehouses and lakes for efficient data retrieval and analysis. Ensure data security and access control, especially for confidential data.•Work with economists, analysts, and others to define research questions and identify relevant data points.•Develop statistical models and machine learning algorithms to analyze essential trends, relationships, and patterns in the data.•Conduct exploratory data analysis (EDA) to understand the data's characteristics and potential biases.•Collaborate with economists, analysts, and others working in this area to create non-technical informative dashboards, reports, and visualizations for public consumption.•Design benchmarks and metrics relevant to the economic research being conducted. Explore and implement AI techniques, such as natural language processing (NLP), to analyze textual data within the system.•Develop machine learning models for forecasting, anomaly detection, or data segmentation on approved datasets. Ensure responsible AI practices by mitigating bias and ensuring model explainability.Additional CommentsIf you are a current NYS employee and have questions regarding salary, please contact the Business Services Center (BSC): 518-457-4272, BSCHR@ogs.ny.gov.Telecommuting is available and can be discussed during the interview.

Minimum Salary: 51.72 Maximum Salary: 51.72 Salary Unit: Yearly