Judiciary Research Manager; Court Executive 2B

Judiciary Research Manager

The New Jersey Judiciary is seeking an individual to serve as the Judiciary Research Manager in the Data Analytics, Research and Statistics Division. Under the direction of the Chief of the Quantitative Research Unit, the Judiciary Research Manager will supervise two teams in criminal, civil, and family research. The Research Manager will also perform a variety of senior level research functions relating to research study design and implementation.

The selected candidate will develop and use appropriate and practical methodology to design and manage research projects; perform simple to moderately complex statistical analysis of court data sets utilizing Stata or SPSS, PowerBI or Tableau, Focus/Web Focus, Excel and other software; manage and clean data in Python, SQL Management Studio, IBM Data Studio, or other data management software; and prepare, present and disseminate research findings to varied audiences and stakeholders.

REMOTE WORK:
The Judiciary currently offers a hybrid work schedule, and this position may qualify for up to 3 days of remote work outside of Judiciary buildings. To participate in this program, in addition to installing a multifactor authentication app on your phone or tablet, you will be required to have high speed home internet access.

Oversee the design and implementation of criminal, civil, and family research

Conduct high-level statistical analysis

Convert complex data into understandable charts, graphs, reports, and statistical presentations

Make oral presentations to judges, senior managers, and agencies and researchers outside of the Judiciary

Manage Quantitative Research's research teams that include both research managers and statistical analysts

Translate requests for statistics and analyses into appropriate responses that will require designing research questions, understanding complex court data, discussion with internal stakeholders, and extraction of data from systems.

Prepare and/or validate monthly and annual statistical reports using Excel, SPSS, SQL, SAS or other tools as appropriate.

Develops proof of concept methods for displaying and/or visualizing data and implements approved visualizations.

Collaborate with Automated Trial Court Services Unit on plans for data system updates from the data analysis perspective, as needed.

Facilitate the reporting of New Jersey statistics and court organization information to external stakeholders.

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree and five years of professional administrative and/or program management experience which shall have included responsibility for program development and/or implementation and the achievement of program goals; three years of which shall have included conducting social science research, including multivariate data analysis and advanced data analytics; and three years of supervision of staff.

Master's or Doctoral Degree is preferred. Preferred areas of study/college major: statistics, criminology, criminal justice, public administration, political science, psychology, sociology, public policy, economics or other relevant discipline. Intermediate to expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel is required. Intermediate to expert knowledge of SPSS or Stata is strongly preferred.

Experience with software such as SAS, SQL, PowerBI/Tableau, or Focus/Web Focus would be helpful as would previous experience extracting data from a data warehouse or a mainframe system.

Experience with administrative, especially court, data would be helpful.

Experience with qualitative methods (e.g., focus groups, interviews, etc.) a plus. Substitution:
Applicants who do not possess the required education may substitute additional professional experience on a year-for-year basis with one year of such experience being equal to 30 semester hour credits. An associate's degree and two years of additional professional experience may be substituted for the required bachelor's degree. A master's degree may be substituted for one year of experience as indicated above
-OR- a Ph.D. may be substituted for two years of experience as indicated above. Education

Note:

Degrees conferred outside of the United States must be evaluated by a recognized evaluation service. (See (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).)

Driver's License:
Appointee will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle is necessary to perform…