Organization Overview
Founded in 2004, Brilliant Corners provides innovative housing and housing-related services to California’s most vulnerable individuals, with an emphasis on those transitioning from, or at risk of, homelessness or institutionalization. We develop, own, and manage multi-family supportive housing and licensed residential care homes. We implement a broad array of scattered-site, one-on-one supportive housing, and clinical case management programs through partnerships with developmental services, homeless services, veterans’ services, and health care sectors.
In short, we do good work.
We have offices throughout California, currently have almost 500 staff members, and are growing daily. We’re looking for inspired, talented people who want to be part of a team that’s affecting profound change and is having fun doing it.
POSITION SUMMARY
This role will be contracted with DHS as part of our partnership in the Housing for Health program.
Housing for Health was founded in 2012 to provide housing and services to patients who frequented County public hospitals
and were homeless. The program has grown to now provide a full continuum of services to clients, from street outreach to interim housing to permanent housing, with case management, benefits advocacy, and clinical services layered across all service categories. Housing for Health maintains its core ethos and founding principles of improving the health and quality of life of the most vulnerable homeless individuals in L.A. County. Community Programs is a program office within Health Services Administration, a division under the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS). In addition to other responsibilities, this position will have a supportive role in the tracking, reporting, quality assurance, and billing efforts for CalAIM, a Medi-Cal waiver program.
They will be supervising and supporting a team of data scientists who will be setting up a new database, adopting new analytical tools, and integrating new data sources while simultaneously building dashboards and providing regular descriptive analyses.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Management and Supervision
- Provides administrative and technical supervision to their team of data scientists who are responsible for conducting data science projects and other advanced research and analytics.
- Plans, organizes, supervises, manages, and evaluates highly technical and complex assignments
- Creates workplans designed to accomplish long-term goals
- Ensures work is prioritized appropriately and that all deadlines are met
- Supports individual team members in their professional goals
- Responsible for the quality and accuracy of team deliverables
- Reporting and Analysis
- Ensures regular reporting occurs within specified deadlines
- Oversees the development, implementation and maintenance of reports, dashboards and analysis tools
- Regularly manages special projects and assignments, such as ad-hoc department reporting and program analyses
- Ensures that processes and procedures used for all reporting and analyses are rigorously documented
- Database Development and Maintenance
- Takes the lead in the build out of a new Community Programs database, including overseeing data onboarding and cleaning
- Collaborates with IT group and program managers to identify departmental or divisional business needs and issues of strategic importance; implements enhancements to existing systems, recommends alternative systems, and assists in developing and implementing new data engineering, data modeling, and data science solutions as appropriate
- Helps refine program management practices through the creation of new reporting and analytical tools
- Supervises the design, buildout, and maintenance of analytical support tools to be used within the Department of Health Services, by housing and service providers, and by other external stakeholders
- Project Management:
- Convenes and facilitates discussions with stakeholders to design and implement tools and reports
- Manages the design, development, implementation and maintenance of reports, dashboards and analysis tools
- Program and Provider Support
- Provides regular analyses of the impact of changes in management practices and policies
- Designs program reports, analyzes performance, and provides resulting analyses to stakeholders
Requirements
JOB QUALIFICATIONS
The ideal candidate has experience working directly with a client-centric relational database and with managing individuals. They have strong technical knowledge and are comfortable advising on complex build outs within a SQL database. They are comfortable with a variety of analytical tools and have taken the lead on projects where the best path forward is unclear. They are a seasoned and effective facilitator. They have a customer service mindset.
Education/Experience
Option I: Two (2) years of experience leading the development and application of methods to identify, collect, process, and analyze data using advanced statistical prediction, inference, and optimization, and providing ongoing support to decision makers to strengthen data-driven program design and management, at a level equivalent to the Los Angeles County class of Senior Data Scientist.
Option II: A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a field of applied research such as Data Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, Business Analytics, Psychology, or Public Health that included 12 semester or 18 quarter units of coursework in data science, predictive analytics, research methods or statistical analysis
– AND-
Eight (8) years of experience, including four (4) years supervising a team of data science professionals and serving as subject matter expert, and coordinating and overseeing complex data science projects to support program, policy, and operational decision-making. A Master’s or Doctoral degree from an accredited college or university in a field of applied research such Data Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, Business Analytics, Psychology, or Public Health may substitute for up to two (2) years of experience.
Certificates/Licenses/Clearances
- Successful clearing through the Live Scan process with the County of Los Angeles.
- In accordance with “Ban the Box” legislation HFH adheres to a fair chance process.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Hybrid. Currently 1 day per month required in-office (Downton Los Angeles), may eventually increase up to 1 day per week max.
Otherwise Remote Work with a set schedule.
This contracted position will terminate after 24 months.
Job Title: Community Programs Data Scientist Supervisor
Program Name: DHS Housing for Health
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Position Status: Full Time Non-Exempt Salaried
Travel Required: (0%)
Reports to: Policy & Planning Associate Director
Salary: $111,996 – $150,912 (Non-Exempt $53.84 – $72.55 hourly)
Number of Vacancies: 1 opening
Benefits
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Training & Development
- Work From Home
- Wellness Resources