Program Research Specialist ; NY HELPS

Position: Program Research Specialist 1 (NY HELPS)
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Review Vacancy

Date Posted 07/03/26

Applications Due
07/18/26

Vacancy ID219191

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NY HELPYes

Agency Taxation & Finance, State

Title Program Research Specialist 1 (NY HELPS)

Occupational Category Other Professional Careers

Salary Grade
18

Bargaining UnitPS&T - Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PEF)

Salary Range From $66951 to $85138 Annually

Employment Type

Full-Time

Appointment Type Permanent

Jurisdictional Class Competitive Class

Travel Percentage 0%

Workweek Mon-Fri

Hours Per Week 37.5

Workday

From 8 AM

To 4 PM

Flextime allowed? No

Mandatory overtime? No

Compressed workweek allowed? No

Telecommuting allowed? Yes

County Albany

Street Address WA Harriman State Office Campus

City Albany

StateNY

Zip Code
12227

Duties Description

The Program Research Specialists 1 will assist in the analysis, evaluation, and reporting for operating programs and projects. They will work under the supervision of a Program Research Specialist 2 or Tax Policy Analyst 3 or other higher-level manager to perform the following duties:

* Participate in the creation of annual OTPA Study files for various taxes. These data files are used by internal and external customers for statistical analysis, and in the publication of agency data.

* Perform various tasks associated with data collection, manipulation, analysis, and evaluation. Including developing working knowledge of data management tools such as SAS, SQL, Access and other tools.

* Learn and participate in data cleaning techniques and manage and review the work of other data collection staff actively engaged in cleaning OTPA study files.

* Actively manage the review of tax forms for accuracy and data that OTPA would like captured for statistical analysis.

* Develop a working knowledge of COGNOS data cubes (a type of data mining software tool).

* Prepare tables, graphs, fact sheets, and written reports summarizing statistical results using a variety of analytical tools.

* Participate in Department-wide initiatives and projects as needed and report progress, issues, and risks to supervisors.

* Communicate, both orally and in writing, with a variety of individuals and groups including program research staff and management officials.

* Adhere to the Department's time and attendance rules and regulations.

* Perform other tasks as needed.

Minimum Qualifications This title is part of the New York Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement Statewide Program (NY HELPS).

For the duration of the NY HELPS Program, this title maybe filled via a non-competitive appointment, which means no examination is required but all candidates must meet the minimum qualifications of the title for which they apply.

Within a year of permanent appointment, it is expected employees hired under NY HELPS will have their non-competitive employment status converted to competitive status, without having to compete in an examination.

Employees will then be afforded with all of the same rights and privileges of competitive class examination for which they are qualified.

NON-COMPETITIVE

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Program Research Specialist 1: A bachelor's degree including or supplemented by nine semester credit hours in biostatistics, data analysis, data modeling, economics, econometrics, mathematics, research methods, or statistics and two years of professional research experience performing the collection, manipulation (e.g., data construction, merging data files, data cleaning, working with data files containing different levels of data) and evaluation of quantitative data directed toward review, analysis, and presentation related to program operations.

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