Management Analyst

Under general direction, provides a wide variety of administrative, analytical, and work‑flow support to assigned departmental activities including financial, performance goal management, systems, and human resources functions; analyzes programmatic practices and procedures and makes recommendations for organizational, operational, policy, and procedural improvements; conducts needs analyses, feasibility studies, and evaluations for assigned projects and programs; develops, summarizes, and maintains administrative and fiscal records;

fosters cooperative working relationships among County departments and acts as liaison with various community, public, and regulatory agencies; and performs related work as required.

Receives general supervision or direction from assigned supervisory or management personnel. Provides technical and functional direction to office and technical support staff. May exercise direct supervision over assigned technical and office support staff.

This is the journey-level and first level class in the Management Analyst series. Initially under close supervision, incumbents with basic professional administrative education and/or experience perform analytical and technical work within an assigned division/department. At this level, the impact of the decisions is moderate and the work is typically one of interpreting, explaining or gathering information.

This is the full journey-level class in the Management Analyst series. Incumbents develop and implement policies and procedures for a variety of projects and programs within an assigned department, including budget, contract, and human resources administration, management analysis, and program evaluation. Incumbents support the work of departmental management staff by conducting day‑to‑day administrative support activities and by providing a professional‑level resource for organizational, fiscal, human resources, managerial, and operational analyses and studies.

The work has technical and programmatic aspects requiring the interpretation and application of policies, procedures, and regulations. Positions at this level receive only occasional instruction or assistance as new or unusual situations arise and are fully aware of the operating procedures and policies of the work unit. This class is distinguished from Senior Management Analyst in that the latter is responsible for technical and functional supervision over professional staff and is capable of performing the most complex duties assigned to a County‑wide function.

• Option 1:
  General Operations – Provides professional assistance in a wide variety of complex administrative, analytical, and work‑flow support activities to an assigned department.
• Option 2:
  Financial – Provides primarily financial assistance to departmental programs, activities, and special projects, including budget, performance and compliance programs.
• Option 3:
  Human Resources – Provides primarily human resources assistance to departmental programs, activities, and special projects, including recruitment, classification, compensation, employee training and development, workers' compensation, and employee and labor relations.

Management reserves the right to add, modify, change, or rescind the work assignments of different positions and to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job.

• Assists in developing goals, objectives, policies, procedures, work standards, and administrative control systems for the department to which assigned.
• Develops and standardizes procedures and methods to improve and continuously monitor the efficiency and effectiveness of operations and service delivery methods and procedures in order to maximize funding and minimize costs; assesses and monitors workload and administrative and support systems; identifies opportunities for improvement and develops related recommendations.
• Plans, oversees, and administers department‑specific programs and projects.
• Conducts a variety of analytical and…