Project Coordinator

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Review Vacancy

Date Posted 05/31/24

Applications Due06/28/24

Vacancy ID159851

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NY HELPNo

AgencyLabor, Department of

TitleProject Coordinator

Occupational CategoryOther Professional Careers

Salary GradeHourly

Bargaining UnitM/C - Management / Confidential (Unrepresented)

Salary RangeFrom $60.51 to $60.51 Hourly

Employment Type Full-Time

Appointment Type Temporary

Jurisdictional Class Competitive Class

Travel Percentage 25%

Workweek Mon-Fri

Hours Per Week 37.5

Workday

From 9 AM

To 5 PM

Flextime allowed? No

Mandatory overtime? No

Compressed workweek allowed? No

Telecommuting allowed? Yes

County Albany

Street Address Department of Labor

Personnel Bureau, Building 12

City Albany

StateNY

Zip Code12226

Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree and seven years of specialized experience. Two years of the experience must have been at a managerial level.

Substitutions:

• J.D. or master's degree and six years of specialized experience.

• Ph.D. and five years of specialized experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATION: Ability to initiate and maintain relationships across a diverse set of stakeholders

Duties Description STANDARD DUTIES: As a Project Coordinator within the Research and Statistics Bureau, the incumbent will perform the following duties but are not limited to the following:

• Lead a cross-agency comprehensive effort to monitor and measure data from educational institutions, employers, and workforce development programs.

• Responsible for integrating data into a longitudinal data tracking system to assess the long and short-term outcomes of workforce development interventions.

• Support enterprise data governance.

• Demonstrate the ability to extract and process data from structured and unstructured data sets.

• Responsible for managing and training staff in the Bureau in areas of subject matter expertise.

• 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.

• 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.

• Support the development and maintenance of data warehouses and lakes for efficient data retrieval and analysis. Ensure data security and access control, especially for confidential data. Work with economists, analyst, 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 benchmark 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 Comments If 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.

Some positions may require additional credentials or a background check to verify your identity.

Name Travis Serson

Telephone 5184571020

Fax EFax: 5184742871@fax.ny.gov

Email Address labor.sm.personnel.jva@labor.ny.gov

Address

Street Department of Labor

Personnel Bureau, Building 12, Room 561

City Albany

State NY

Zip Code 12226

Notes on ApplyingAll candidates must submit a written resume and cover letter which clearly demonstrates how they meet the minimum qualifications for the position. These documents must be received by June 28, 2024, and submitted via email to labor.sm.personnel.jva@labor.ny.gov or mailed to the NYS Department of Labor, Personnel Bureau, Building 12, Room 561, State Office Campus, Albany, NY 12226. You must include, Vacancy ID #159851, Project Coordinator - Albany in the subject line of your email. Failure to do so may result in a delay of processing your application.

Candidates from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Department of Labor is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer committed to ensuring equal opportunity for persons with disabilities and workplace diversity.

New York State (NYS) is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. NYS Law prohibits discrimination because of age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, domestic violence victim status, carrier status, gender identity or prior conviction records, or prior arrests, youthful offender adjudications or sealed records unless based on a bona fide occupational qualification or other exception.

If you are a person with a disability and wish to request that a reasonable accommodation be provided for you to participate in a job interview, please contact: Department of Labor, Attn: Director, Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI), Building 12, Albany, NY 12226(Phone (518) 457-1984 and/or fax (518) 485-2575.

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