Crime and Intelligence Analyst; Project​/Program Manager II

This is an exciting opportunity to join the King County Sheriff’s Office. The Crime & Intelligence Analyst will join a team of Crime & Intelligence Analysts, Data Scientists, GIS Specialists, and Statisticians in the King County Sheriff’s Office, which serves unincorporated King County, 14 Contract City Police Departments, Metro and Sound Transit Police Departments, and specialized units with the Criminal Investigation’s Division.

We are seeking candidates with the drive and experience to provide critical tactical and strategic analysis of crime and intelligence. The successful candidate will demonstrate considerable expertise and creativity to effectively utilize proactive policing tools, critical thinking, and analytic techniques with intelligence-led and data driven policing. A successful analyst will be able to follow the intelligence cycle, and work to gather, clean, analyze, and disseminate vital information to inform all levels of the department, while being efficient and creative in their approach to detecting, preventing, and reducing crime to support the goals and embodying the values of the King County Sheriff’s Office.

This position is open to the public. This recruitment will establish an employment list (valid for one year) to fill current and future Crime & Intelligence Analyst vacancies within the Sheriff  Office. For information regarding King County Civil Service Rules, refer to the Civil Service Rules documentation.

The Crime & Intelligence Analyst will report to the Crime Analysis Unit Supervisor and/or a Police Captain and be assigned an area of responsibility (for example, precinct 4, which includes the City of Burien and unincorporated areas of King County) and execute all aspects of crime, intelligence and data analysis for their assigned area of responsibility and for the King County Sheriff’s Office as a whole.

• Coordinate, plan and develop crime and data analysis projects within the geographic area or expertise area assigned. This may include conducting research, collecting data, performing analysis, supporting criminal investigations, producing products, presentations, written reports, and bulletins.
• Work with stakeholders in the geographic area assigned to identify crime and intelligence priorities.
• Analyze and summarize findings related to crime/intelligence, such as trends, series, suspects, and locations. Prepare intelligence assessments, crime maps, link charts and create/maintain dashboards using MS Power BI, Tableau, MS Excel, ESRI Arc Pro/Portal/Online, i2 and open-source software to analyze and display data.
• Work with the MS Office Suite – Excel, Word, One Note, PowerPoint, Teams, Planner, etc. and Adobe Professional to complete daily assigned tasks.
• Use MS SQL and other tools/methods to mine data from police report management and computer aided dispatch systems.
• Use quantitative and qualitative methodology such as link analysis, event flow analysis, hot spot mapping, spatial analysis and activity charting (or other mathematical and statistical methods) to analyze data and identify and evaluate crime series, patterns and trends.
• Present orally and in writing intelligence analysis to police personnel to assist in investigations, situational awareness and tactical/strategic trends.
• Initiate analysis, provide investigative leads and prepare reports to support criminal investigations.
• Use a variety of law enforcement, local, state and federal government systems to support criminal investigations.
• Use a variety of databases and software to conduct analysis and support investigations.
• Liaise with law enforcement, government agencies, and community groups to obtain and/or provide crime-related data.
• Attend operations briefings to discuss and update officers and investigators on crime series, patterns and trends to support investigations. Develop and maintain relationships with other criminal justice personnel to share information and techniques and learn from each other.
• Participate in professional group meetings; may serve on intra & inter-jurisdictional committees and task forces. Coordinate and integrate information from and for local, regional, national…