Sr Data Analyst (Equity/Social Identity)

Position Details

• Closing Date: 2026-10-27
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Engagement Type: Permanent
• Salary Information: $114,481.64 - $134,818.32 annually
• Work Location: Central - 19 Fairmont Avenue
• Department: Respect, Values & Inclusion Directorate

Overall Purpose

Reporting to the Program Manager Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, the Senior Data Analyst is responsible for providing material support and analytic advice to Senior Leadership including supporting and leading projects that will enhance the use of data, involving complex analysis and research.

Provides a lead role in the development of the organization’s race and other social identity data strategy, including the data collection and analysis framework; proactively identify analytical opportunities and provide recommendations that improve all elements of the data analysis process and increase analytical capacity throughout the organization.

Leverage advanced analytical techniques to conduct business analysis and identify meaningful insights, interpreting data and turning it into knowledge that informs tactical and strategic business decisions including analysis of current projects, programs, and policies.

Provides analytical leadership managing a portfolio of projects, providing oversight of the work of other analysts and researchers, and maintains technical expertise through ongoing research of innovative practices and engaging with senior level networks and professional associations.

This work seeks to improve the outcomes of enhancing public trust, duty of care internally and externally and to further evolve aspects of community safety and well-being (CSWB) by adopting and including community co-design/co-production.

Major Responsibilities

Data Strategy Responsibilities include:

• Acts as the lead / subject matter expert in data collection and analysis, supporting the development of collection strategies and analysis framework, with a particular focus on race and other social identity data.
• Provides recommendations to develop or enhance systems of data collection.
• Provides statistical expertise, determining the validity of data, constructing meaningful indices, and determining the limitations of data.
• Establishes standards and guidelines for data collection, modeling, and analysis to ensure consistency and accuracy.
• Facilitates meetings with internal and external clients to help define analytical opportunities, provide expertise in data collection methods, and make recommendations on solutions.

Leverage advanced analytical techniques to conduct business analysis and identify meaningful insights:

• Identifies and documents analytics needs, records requirements, provides data insights to support narrative, and develops project plans that incorporate agile delivery practices.
• Leverages advanced analytical techniques to conduct analysis and produce reports for the provision of human rights and equity analyses for senior management and the community.
• Measures the effectiveness of initiatives and programs, identifies trends, emerging issues, and implications, and builds baselines against which future metrics can be measured.
• Applies a user-centred development approach to build reports and dashboards employing best-practices.
• Presents reports, results of analyses, and recommends data collection and analytic strategies to help advance equity in the workplace and in the community through police policies, procedures, and practices.
• Expand community access to open data to increase transparency, build trust, foster innovation, and enable co-design/ co-production of improved community safety and well-being outcomes.
• Liaise with related statistical agencies to ensure adherence with data analysis standards and benchmark results.

Provides analytical leadership:

• Manages a portfolio of projects; lead project committees and working groups from inception to implementation, and continuous improvement.
• Establishes collaborative working relationships with stakeholders/partners (Incl. the community) and acts as a change agent helping to building a continuous improvement culture.
• Contributes as a subject matter expert on data analytics projects and represents the Unit / Police Service in this capacity on committees, task forces, working groups, meetings, as assigned.
• Responds to routine and non-routine inquiries or requests for information from outside agencies and partners, municipalities, vendors and/or members of the public, escalating issues where appropriate.
• Provides, supervision, guidance, and mentoring to Analysts, researchers, and others in the organization on equity, inclusion, and human rights data collection and analysis.
• Remains current with local, provincial, and national and international legislative changes or emerging good practices that impact or influence the provision of data equity or social identity data collection or analysis.
• Research innovative practices relating to data collection, statistical analysis, and data visualization.

Statement of Required Qualifications

Education
Successful completion of a graduate degree in Applied Statistics, Data Science, Social Sciences, Criminology, or a related discipline wi... [truncated]