Are you looking for career opportunities that provides top-notch benefits including paid vacation and sick leave, outstanding health and dental insurance, a free health clinic for you and your dependents, a generous retirement plan, and much more? Then bring your talents and leadership to Travis County!

The Strategic Advisor provides thorough program evaluation and ongoing analysis of data, performance measures and other analytics related to youth, referrals, program involvement and outcomes, this position is responsible for the analysis, recommendation, and implementation of evidence-based strategies in the Juvenile Justice system.

Distinguishing Characteristics

This classification is within the Management job family. Reports directly to the most senior position within Juvenile Probation IT, Research and Planning Division. This classification may require a flexible work schedule in order to meet the needs of the department.

• Conducts analyses related to juvenile justice data using advanced analytics such as descriptive analytics, diagnostic analytics, predictive analytics and/or prescriptive analytics.
• Serves as the subject matter expert on juvenile justice evidence-based practices.
• Produces analytic products for a wide array of audiences.
• Presents analytic products for a wide array of audiences.
• Work across teams to support the Department’s mission and priorities.
• Stay abreast on advanced analytic technological improvements and techniques.
• Build and maintain analytic tools such as databases, dashboards and reports.
• Conduct in-depth program and process evaluation regarding juvenile justice systems, processes and programming. Analyzes findings and writes reports.
• Makes policy recommendation based on cumulative analyses and evaluation.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

OR,

Any combination of education and experience that has been achieved and is equivalent to the stated education and experience and required knowledge, skills, and abilities sufficient to successfully perform the duties and responsibilities of this job.

Licenses, Registrations, Certifications, or Special Requirements:

Preferred:

Knowledge of:

• Analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Policies, practices, procedures and legal terminology related to the crime analysis or juvenile justice system.
• Analytic data visualization tools, e.g. Tableau, Power BI, ArcGIS.
• Statistical techniques and software, e.g. SPSS, R, Stata.
• Analytic topics or defended research and analysis in a professional or public setting.
• Mining and analyzing data related to juvenile justice and/or criminal justice or equivalent databases.
• Developing and maintaining analytic products and tools to provide guidance and transparency to a wide array of individuals and audiences.
• Federal, State, Local and County applicable laws, rules, regulations and applicable probation and juvenile justice standards and procedures.
• Standard practices in area of assignment.
• Budget development, preparation, and monitoring.

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  Computer equipment to include word processing, spreadsheets, databases and a variety of software packages.
• Business letter writing, grammar and punctuation, and report preparation.

• Utilizing analytic topics or defended research and analysis in a professional or public setting.
• Mining and analyzing data related to juvenile justice and/or criminal justice or equivalent databases.
• Developing and maintaining analytic products and tools to provide guidance and transparency to a wide array of individuals and audiences.
• Directing and managing others, including team building.
• Problem-solving and decision-making.
• Training, managing and evaluating the work of others.
• Developing and monitoring budgets.
• Preparing and making presentations.
• Both verbal and written communication.

Ability to:

• Coordinate, plan and prioritize multiple data projects simultaneously.
• Manage time well, perform multiple tasks and organize diverse activities.
• Collaborate across multiple divisions.
• Communicate effectively regarding data with a range of stakeholders with varying levels of understanding data and advanced analytics techniques.
• Present findings to a range of audiences both internal and external, as well as to members of the public.
• Direct, motivate, train, develop and evaluate staff.
• Reason and make judgments and decisions.
• Work effectively and courteously under high pressure circumstances.
• Research and prepare a variety of memorandums or reports.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with departmental clientele, representatives of outside agencies, other County employees and officials, attorneys, judges and the general public.

Work Environment and Physical Demands