The NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) is seeking a Data Scientist to play a key role in the enforcement of groundbreaking new legal protections for workers by developing and implementing strategies for the discovery, collection, and analysis of employer data relating to compliance with city workplace laws.
Requirements
- Advanced use of programming, scripting, and statistical languages (e.g., Python, R, Stata) and relational databases (e.g., advanced SQL queries)
- Excellent analytic thinking skills, especially the ability to map between legal and regulatory concepts and corresponding data structures and processes
- Excellent strategic thinking skills, especially the ability to tailor analytic approaches to the needs of specific cases
- Comfort with sampling methodologies, extrapolation, and statistical inference
- High level of organization, including ability to ensure findings are reproducible and analytical choices are transparent and well-supported
- Experience handling multiple assignments with competing deadlines, where each requires a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
Responsibilities
- Working with investigators and attorneys to identify the data necessary to evaluate employers’ compliance with NYC workplace laws;
- Communicating with employers’ counsel and technical staff to ensure delivery of responsive data, along with information necessary for its interpretation;
- Developing and using appropriate data analysis tools to describe employer practices, identify key witnesses, and calculate damages;
- Assessing how OLPS uses data in its investigations and litigation and recommending and implementing improvements;
- Assisting with other aspects of OLPS’s work, including analysis of labor market data and process design and automation.
Other
- This position may be eligible for remote work for up to 2 days per week, pursuant to the Remote Work
- For Assignment Level I (only physical, biological and environmental sciences and public health) A master's degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological or environmental science or in public health.
- To be appointed to Assignment Level II and above, candidates must have: A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and one year of full-time experience in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or A master's degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and three years of responsible full-time research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above. However, all candidates must have at least a master's degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in "2" above. Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in "1" and "2" above.
- Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.
- Excellent writing, reading comprehension, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to occasionally work flexible hours, including nights and weekends
