Data Analytics Specialist

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Budget and Management

Morgan Turjanica:
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Turjanicao.gov

30 East Broad Street, 34th Floor
Columbus, Ohio,
United States

$34.53/hr-$50.66/hr

Permanent - Full Time

M-F, 8a.m. to 5p.m.

Classified

OCSEA

Data Analytics

The Ohio Office of Budget and Management (OBM) is the fiscal backbone of the State of Ohio enterprise. OBM works with the Governor and every state agency in providing policy analysis, fiscal research, and financial management services. We help state agencies shape Ohio's future by ensuring the proper and responsible use of state resources!

The Office of Budget and Management (OBM) is seeking a highly analytical, collaborative, and solutions-oriented Data Analytics Specialist to support the agency's data, performance, and evaluation initiatives. This role serves as a key analytical partner within OBM, helping advance agency priorities through the strategic use of data and evidence-based analysis. The ideal candidate will transform complex data into actionable insights that support budgeting, policy, and operational decisions.

Combining strong technical expertise with a commitment to data quality, continuous improvement, and stakeholder collaboration, this position helps strengthen OBM's data capabilities and supports informed decision-making that improves operational outcomes.

• Build, maintain, and enhance analytical datasets by integrating, validating, and transforming data from multiple state systems and sources, ensuring data is accurate, reliable, and ready for analysis and decision-making.
• Develop dashboards, reports, visualizations, and presentations that communicate complex findings, tell compelling data-driven stories, and present information in a clear and accessible manner for executive leaders, policymakers, and non-technical audiences.
• Maintain documentation for data sources, business rules, analytical methodologies, and reporting processes to improve transparency, consistency, and continuity across OBM's analytics operations.
• Support Ohio's Results Focused Budgeting efforts by helping develop performance measures, analyze outcomes, assess evidence, and provide analytical support for strategic resource allocation decisions.
• Contribute to OBM's enterprise data governance program by supporting data stewardship activities, participating in governance initiatives, coordinating responses to data requests, and promoting best practices for data management, privacy, and security.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and data literacy by sharing analytical knowledge, providing guidance to stakeholders, and staying current on emerging technologies, methodologies, and industry best practices.

• Unless required by legislation or union contract, the selected candidate will begin at step 1 of the pay range.
• The Director of OBM, or their designee, will interview all final candidates for this position.
• The final candidate selected for this position will be required to undergo a criminal background check. Criminal convictions do not necessarily preclude an applicant from consideration for a position.
  
  An individual assessment of an applicant's prior criminal convictions will be made before excluding an applicant from consideration.

At the State of Ohio, we take care of the team that cares for Ohioans. We provide a variety of quality, competitive benefits to eligible full-time and part-time employees*. For a list of all the State of Ohio Benefits, visit our Total Rewards website! Our benefits package includes:

• Medical Coverage
• Free Dental, Vision and Basic Life Insurance premiums after completion of eligibility period
• Paid time off, including vacation, personal, sick leave and 11 paid holidays per year
• Childbirth, Adoption, and Foster Care leave
• Education and Development Opportunities (Employee Development Funds, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and more)
• Public Retirement Systems (such as OPERS, STRS, SERS, and HPRS) & Optional Deferred Compensation (Ohio Deferred Compensation)

* Benefits eligibility is dependent on a number of factors. The Agency Contact listed above will be able to provide specific benefits information for this position.

• 48 months experience in data analytics or…