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Position Description

Work, Serve, Thrive. With the City of Durham
Advance in your career while making a real difference in the community you serve.
Hiring Range: $18.19/hr - $20.47/hr
Hours: Schedule will vary, working less than 20 hours per week
The Budget and Management Services Department works to solve Durham’s biggest challenges. We are innovators, managing City resources like they’re our own, guiding the City’s future through strategic planning and encouraging a culture of innovation and continuous improvement through special projects, partnerships and trainings. If innovating to solve challenges drives you, too, join our team in Durham!

The City of Durham’s Office of Performance and Innovation in the Budget and Management Services Department seeks a public service-motivated, community-oriented individual to assist with data analysis. This is a part-time position (approx. 15-20 hours per week) responsible for working with Participatory Budgeting (PB) staff to extract meaningful insights from data, identify trends, and inform residents, staff, and leadership about PB outcomes. A highly competitive candidate will have experience with quantitative and qualitative data analysis and strong oral and written communication skills.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Collect, organize, and interpret data sets from various sources (e.g., databases, external data, surveys).
• Quantitative and Qualitative analysis of PB program data.
• Clean and preprocess data to ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and data visualizations.
• Manage PB data platforms.
• Other special projects and data analysis projects as needed.

Minimum Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelors degree or a current graduate student studying a field related to: Public Policy, Public Administration, Political Science, Planning/Urban Design, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and thoughtfully analyze quantitative and qualitative data.

Additional Preferred Skills

• Able to communicate critical findings.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to explain complex data insights to non-technical stakeholders.
• "Self-starter" - Must be able to work independently on assigned projects with minimal supervision.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.