The Agency You’ll Join:
The NYC Mayor's Office administers all city services, public property, most public agencies, and enforces all city, state, and federal laws within New York City. New York City’s Mayor, Eric Adams is head of the executive branch of New York City's government. Mayor Adams has served the people of New York City as an NYPD officer, State Senator, and Brooklyn Borough President. The Adams’ Administration is leading the fight to make New York City’s economy stronger, reduce inequality, improve public safety, and build a stronger, healthier city that delivers for all New Yorkers. As an agency, we value fairness, helpfulness, transparency, leadership and build our teams around these values. For current job opportunities visit our careers page

The Team You’ll Work With:
The Office of the First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright ensures that City government runs efficiently and focuses on many of the administration’s top priorities – from creating opportunities for young people to strengthening the city’s civic infrastructure – the office works in partnership with stakeholders inside and outside of city government to develop, scale, coordinate, and deliver policies, plans and operations in an equitable and sustainable way.

The Problems You’ll Solve
The office of the First Deputy Mayor is seeking a qualified individual to serve as a Data Policy Advisor. This individual will support the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force in advancing priority initiatives across city agencies and through community partnerships. This individual will be responsible for the monitoring data associated with the strategies of Gun Violence Prevention in various domains. In coordination with the Office of the First Deputy Mayor and relevant city agencies, they will develop KPIs to measure performance over time and to quantify impact of initiatives at the individual, community, and system level. This important work will enable the City to make decisions that optimize outcomes, promote efficiency, and address problems faced by New Yorkers. The Senior Data Management Advisor will also support the implementation of recommendations, develop, and track action plans and ensure objectives are met. The Senior Data Management Advisor will serve as a liaison among agencies, community organizations, and other public and private partners with a particular focus on upstream causes of gun violence.


The Data Policy Advisor will act upon, design and develop policies, programs and initiatives that are consistent with the First Deputy Mayor’s goals and objectives.
S/he will:

- Develop logic models and KPIs for new and in-flight initiatives

- Manage systems to monitor implementation of new programs and policies

- Determine appropriate data and methodology to measure program impact.

- Develop comprehensive data documentation

- Coordinate with IT staff to structure and process data

- Use data visualization techniques to effectively communicate findings to broad audience

- Manage the development and presentation of performance reports and benchmarking activities.

- Leverage existing data resources such as the American Community Survey (ACS), Open
Data, Community Health Survey (CHS), etc. to provide context for analyses.

- Develop an expertise in the administrative data and policies of City agencies.

- Coordinate key projects (agency, inter-agency and among community stakeholders) that advance
the goals of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force

- Quantitatively and qualitatively assess policy related initiatives on an ongoing basis and make
recommendations and/or presentations, briefings to stakeholders and Mayoral officials, making sure
to appropriately communicate pertinent and sensitive information

- Provide ongoing leadership and project management, and oversee progress on implementation;

- Originate and/or oversee the generation of project-related documents including schedules, project
plans, presentations, meeting agendas, minutes, status reports, etc.

- Represent the First Deputy Mayor’s Office at meetings with stakeholders, staff, and internal and
external committees, etc., to develop and sustain positive relationships and networks, gather
information, opinions and attitudes, identify stakeholder needs, provide interpretation and clarification,
develop response options, and generate cooperation and buy-in to policy initiatives

- Analyze and make recommendations on special projects that raise issues and/or concerns

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties described above; or
2. High school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties as described above; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above. However, all candidates must have at least one year of experience as described in "1" above.

- The ideal candidate will have a baccalaureate degree in public policy, public administration, business, social work, psychology, sociology or other relevant graduate degree. Graduate degree is preferred. - Experience in program evaluation and development - Outstanding interpersonal and written communication skills, including the ability to work well and communicate with a variety of audiences (agency officials, elected officials, funders, etc.) - Ability to distill complex material into actionable recommendations - Ability to work under stringent deadlines and handle simultaneous assignments - Strong quantitative and problem-solving skills - Experience working with large datasets Excellent communication, writing, research, analytical and organizational skills, with ability to problem solve and pay close attention to detail - Ability to complete work independently with broadly defined work objectives and limited review of overall results - Ability to interface with executive level management and give senior level presentations - Expertise in desktop software (MS Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, MS Word) is required - An understanding of New York City’s operational agencies, a plus

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.