NY HELP No Agency People With Developmental Disabilities, Office for Title Research Scientist 5 (Health Services Research) Occupational Category Administrative or General Management Salary Grade 31 Bargaining Unit PS&T - Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PEF) Salary Range From $127433 to $155130 Annually Employment Type Full-Time Appointment Type Contingent Permanent Jurisdictional Class Non-competitive Class Travel Percentage 0% 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 To Be Determined Street Address TBD City TBD State NY Zip Code 00000 Duties Description OPWDD's Division of State Operations (DSO) is responsible for overseeing the delivery of state operated supports and services to over 8,000 recipients across New York State. The Research Scientist 5 position sits within DSO's Bureau of Business Analytics and Research, which is responsible for overseeing all Division activities involving operational research, program evaluation, data reporting, and analytics, including the development and maintenance of in-house applications and coordination with vendors regarding external software solutions. The Bureau of Business Analytics and Research is organized into three business level units: (1) Enterprise Software Solutions, (2) Application Development, and (3) Data, Statistics and Operational Research. The Research Scientist 5 will lead the Data, Statistics and Operational Research unit. This unit is responsible for producing and maintaining all DSO reporting tools, including both static and dynamic reports (i.e., Tableau dashboards), fulfilling ad-hoc data requests, and analyzing and interpreting data from a variety of sources to provide actionable insights. The Data, Statistics and Operational Research unit identifies trends, patterns, and potential issues to inform DSO policy and practice and ultimately improve service provision, as well as conducting original research studies, the results of which are disseminated through publications and conference presentations and are used to inform further research and practice within the field.Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:- Formulating and carrying out complete research plans, resulting in publishable contributions to the literature.- Design, development, and implementation of program evaluations.- Translating business questions into testable research hypotheses.- Overseeing Tableau development activities including designing, creating, and publishing Tableau reports and dashboards. - Data Management and analysis tasks, including extracting, merging, managing, and analyzing data from large scale administrative databases utilizing SQL and SAS or SPSS. - Identifying data limitations and needs.- Creating data collection tools and survey instruments.- Developing data collection protocols.- Leading partnerships with ITS on new data collection initiatives.- Demonstrated expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research methods.- Utilizing research findings to formulate actionable program and policy recommendations.- Disseminating research findings through technical reports, data presentations, and peer-reviewed publications.- Works under broad supervision, independently moving forward most aspects of the research process.- Supervision of lower-level research and reporting staff. This position may be located at: - OD Heck Campus, 500 Balltown Road, Schenectady - Central Office, 44 Holland Avenue, Albany LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nys-office-for-people-with-developmental-disabilities/posts/?feedView=all #LI-EW1 Minimum Qualifications Master's degree and six years of professional research experience in the area(s) of public health, psychology, social welfare, sociology, computer science, statistics, or another related field.Substitutions: Ph.D. in an appropriate field may substitute for an additional year of experience. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Background in managing research projects from start to finish, including identifying research topics and hypotheses, data collection, analysis, and interpretation. The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D., strong publication record, and experience leading a research team. Additional Comments • The Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) and it's Division of State Operations is committed to creating and sustaining a culture of inclusion. We believe that we are most effective in managing and improving our service system with a diverse team of employees. With such a large workforce, we rely on the collective individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression, ideas and talent that our employees bring to their work. This speaks to our culture, and is a key part of our successes. As we continuously recruit people for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that applicants bring in terms of their education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.• Preference will be given to OPWDD employees impacted by closures. If you are being impacted by closure, please indicate this on your resume/cover letter.• In order to be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program), you may be terminated from your employment.• OPWDD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.• If an employee or job applicant believes that they need a reasonable accommodation, they should contact the Reasonable Accommodation Unit at (518) 486-7222 or email accommodationrequests@opwdd.ny.gov to obtain information and RA forms. Some positions may require additional credentials or a background check to verify your identity. Name Emilee Walker Telephone 518-473-4785 Fax 518-474-9902 Email Address MainOffice.Careers@opwdd.ny.gov Address Street 44 Holland Avenue City Albany State NY Zip Code 12229 Notes on Applying Please submit a cover letter and resume as an attached PDF or Word document by 2/14/25. Please reference the EOA #2025-015 in all correspondence.