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Grow your career with the State of Indiana! With more than 50 executive branch agencies, the State of Indiana is a diverse workforce offering employees stimulating and challenging projects across a broad scope of career opportunities. As a State of Indiana employee, you impact the well-being of Indiana’s communities every day.
At the State of Indiana, we don’t just talk about diversity and inclusion – Our goal is to create a welcoming, accessible, and equitable workplace, with a workforce that is representative of the State of Indiana population. As a proud equal opportunity employer, reasonable accommodations may be available to enable individuals with disabilities to complete the application and interview process, as well as perform the essential functions of a role.
Next Level benefits at the State of Indiana are here! Be sure to review our expanded benefit package offerings below.
About the Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA):
OCRA works with local, state, and national partners to provide resources and technical assistance to aid communities in shaping and achieving their vision for community and economic development.
Salary:
This position traditionally starts at an annual salary of $53,222.
About the Job:
The Broadband Data Analyst serves the State of Indiana’s Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA) and the Lt. Governor in assisting the management of the Next Level Connections program and other related Broadband programs. You should be familiar with data collection and management and be comfortable with managing and auditing grant programs.
The Broadband Data Analyst is responsible for the development, delivery, and ongoing management of various short- and long-term projects relating to the Broadband funding programs. The Broadband Data Analyst must provide excellent customer service and must be responsive to state contacts of all disciplines. The Broadband Data Analyst reports directly to the OCRA Broadband Program Director.
Learn more about the Next Level Connections program at https://www.in.gov/ocra/nlc/
A Day in the Life:
The essential duties of this role are:
- Support and enhance ad-hoc reporting using the Salesforce platform and Microsoft Excel
- Conduct data mining activities
- Interpret, aggregate, and summarize results from data source
- Collect and compile data on specific aspects of OCRA Broadband programs
- Conduct analyses and investigations into certain areas such as long-range and short-term goals, problems, and project health
- Assist in creating new initiatives, programs, and projects
- Assist in creating, reviewing, and/or maintaining standard operating procedures
- Participate in all required departmental meetings and providing feedback within the program
- Recognize areas for internal improvement and developing plans for improvement
- Provide support to other members of broadband and other OCRA programs at times
What You’ll Need for Success:
- At minimum will have a bachelor’s degree and/or 3+ years of prior work experience leveraging data to drive significant organizational impact
- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel including knowledge of pivot tables and common formulas
- Experience manipulating large data sets including cleaning, standardizing, and transforming
- Experience working with the Salesforce platform is a plus
- Ability to anticipate problems and initiate corrective actions
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to translate technical details into everyday language
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships
Supervisory Responsibilities/Direct Reports:
This role does not provide direct supervision to direct reports; however, supervision may be assigned based on agency needs.
Benefits of Employment with the State of Indiana:
The State of Indiana offers a comprehensive benefit package for full-time employees which includes:
- Three (3) medical plan options (including RX coverage) as well as vision and dental plans
- Wellness Rewards Program: Complete wellness activities to earn gift card rewards
- Health savings account, which includes bi-weekly state contribution
- Flexible work scheduling options, including the potential for hybrid remote work for employees whose work may be performed outside state facilities
- Deferred compensation 457B account (similar to 401k plan) with employer match
- Two (2) fully-funded pension plan options
- A robust, comprehensive program of leave policies covering a variety of employee needs, including but not limited to:
- 150 hours of paid new parent leave
- Up to 15 hours of paid community service leave
- Combined 180 hours of paid vacation, personal, and sick leave time off
- 12 paid holidays, 14 on election years
- Education Reimbursement Program
- Group life insurance
- Referral Bonus program
- Employee assistance program that allows for covered behavioral health visits
- Qualified employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
- Free Parking for most positions
- Free LinkedIn Learning access
Equal Employment Opportunity:
The State of Indiana is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to recruit, select, develop, and promote employees based on individual ability and job performance. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunity to all people in all aspects of employer-employee relations without discrimination because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, or veteran status. We will comply with the spirit as well as the letter of all applicable state and federal laws.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, you can request assistance by contacting the Indiana State Personnel Department at [email protected]
The State of Indiana has established a culture that welcomes equity, inclusion, and opportunity for all employees and applicants. We encourage you to apply if you feel you have the transferrable skills to be successful in this position and we look forward to reviewing your application.
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