Specialist, Housing Analytics Jobs

Specialist, Housing Analytics

Human Services – Housing Services

Status: 1 Regular Full Time

Salary Range: $86,443 to $108,052 per annum (plus comprehensive benefits)

Work Mode: Remote * see below for more details about this work mode.

Location: 10 Peel Centre Drive, Brampton

Hours of Work: 35 hours per week

Who We Are

Come join the Housing Services team, where we lead service system planning and management of housing and homelessness programs and services to help people get and keep housing. We are passionately committed to ensuring stable, affordable, appropriate housing and supports in Peel.

The Role

In this role, you will be responsible for the planning, execution, communication and implementation of key housing analytics work including advanced analysis, modelling, insight generation, data integration and data management, in order to support operations, planning, and decision making. You will be applying your technical skills towards finding answers to questions that can inform new policy, programs, and advocacy, in order to alleviate our affordable housing crisis

What You Will Do In This Role

• Develop and maintain internal relationships with other corporate groups to ensure Housing Services analytics solutions align with Enterprise Business Intelligence Strategy.
• Guide the development of sophisticated data visualization, advanced web graphic technology and interactive tools to make large datasets coherent in order to better understand patterns and explain complex issues and results to decision-makers, partners and the general public.
• Communicate with management and various stakeholders regarding findings, measurement reporting and evaluation of options.
• Lead highly complex and specialized statistical analysis and problem-solving utilizing data from widely varied housing and homelessness programs and services.
• Mine historical data to discover trends and patterns and develop algorithms to validate existing assumptions and processes.
• Will contribute to establishing, maintaining, optimizing and maximizing return from specialized data analysis tools and purchased/subscription based data sets.
• Implement divisional policies, standards, procedures and best practices (governance) with Housing Services impact in the following areas: information privacy, data integration, linkage of data sets, data warehousing, data quality, and data utilization.
• Maintain collaborative and supportive working relationships with key stakeholders such as senior management, IT staff and other key internal and external groups contributing to human services program areas.
• Provide project management leadership in the design and delivery of assigned projects including developing and implementing full-scale project plans, determining project priorities/scope, project documentation and accountability for deliverables. Perform Administrator functions for specialized Housing Services data bases.
• Monitor emerging industry trends and adjust governance, tools, advice and recommendations accordingly for all program and service responsibilities and champion change at the department level.

What The Role Requires

• A University degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Science or Data Science related discipline combined with a minimum of 5 years direct relevant and extensive work experience.Combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Ability to use a sophisticated blend of classical and advanced components like artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, databases, traditional statistics and graphics to present hidden relationships and patterns found within structured and unstructured data sets.
• Advanced statistics, descriptive and predictive modeling experience utilizing statistical software packages such as R, SPSS, STATA, etc.

Skills/Abilities

• Communication style is characterized by diplomacy, clarity and candour.
• Proficient in use of MS office tools, in particular Excel. Skilled in Access use and creation of databases.
• Highly effective written and verbal communicator, adept in the delivery of presentations as an S ubject Matter Expert (SME) , and as part of a dynamic team of highly skilled professionals.
• Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias.
• Skilled in generating decision trees, cluster analysis, text analytics, structural equation modeling and data visualization.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools and the ability create custom visualizations using combinations of open source and commercial tools. (MS Power BI would be an asset).
• Highly successful and experienced with supporting analytical projects and applied knowledge of project management methodology.
• Expert knowledge of Bl concepts and data mining techniques e.g. Associations Discovery, Sequential Pattern Discovery, Classification, Clustering and Forecasting.

Perks @ Peel and why you will love working for us:

• Flexible hours supporting your wellness and wellbeing
• Comprehensive Health, Dental, Vision benefit plan including psychological health (effective start date)
• Access to tuition reimbursement (where applicable) and learning and development resources
• Supportive leadership and a culture of respect and inclusion
• Accrue Vacation on a monthly basis up to 3 weeks per annum
• Automatic enrolment into OMERS pension plan
• 3 Paid personal days and floating holidays
• Annual performance review and merit increases based on performance

Work Mode & Job Location: In this role you will have the ability to work mostly remote. You will be required to occasionally attend on-site meetings based on operational requirements at the 10 Peel Centre Drive, Brampton worksite. Your remote work location must be located within the province of Ontario.

The Region of Peel offers job based flexible hours of work that allows employees to manage personal and professional responsibilities while at the same time ensures business operational needs and customer service expectations are achieved. 

Interview: Our recruitment process will be completed with video conference technology.

At Peel Region, we value being open and transparent with our community. The Ontario government has passed legislation that will dissolve Peel Region on January 1, 2025. Peel remains committed to providing uninterrupted services to our residents and businesses through the transition. Skilled and qualified professionals are and will be needed to deliver services to the Peel community regardless of the governance model. For information about our transition and how we continue delivering services, visit peelregion.ca/transition.

If this opportunity matches your qualifications and experience, please apply on-line.

As part of the Region’s ongoing commitment to health and safety, there are enhanced COVID-19 specific safety protocols and/or personal protective equipment requirements (e.g. masks, eye protection, etc.) in place to help protect health and safety. The additional requirements are determined based on the nature of the work being carried out.

About Us

Peel Region consists of the cities of Brampton and Mississauga, and the town of Caledon. Peel Region delivers essential services to more than 1.5 million residents and approximately 175,000 businesses.

We’re working to create a community that is safe, inclusive, and accessible. A place where everyone feels they belong and can access the services they need to thrive throughout each stage of life.

Our workforce is 6,500 strong and s ince 1974, we’ve been delivering a wide range of resident focused services. Our services include paramedic services, health programs, long-term care and services for seniors, child care support, garbage collection and recycling, waste water and water treatment, road maintenance, financial assistance, and housing support.

Recognized by Canada's Healthy Workplace Month® with the Great Employer Award presented by Excellence Canada, Peel Region is a place where everyone feels they belong. We strive to develop a workplace that values and respects diversity, practices inclusion, recognizes the unique contributions and abilities of all people and facilitates innovative thinking. At Peel Region, people come first. Each employee has an important role within our community and when we work together, it’s impactful. We encourage you to join us in delivering essential services and programs to our diverse community. You won't find a better opportunity than Peel Region.

Additional Information

The Region of Peel is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is respected and valued for their contributions, and where everyone is treated fairly and has opportunity to grow and develop. As one of the most diverse regions in Canada, we are committed to establishing a qualified workforce that is reflective of the population we serve.

The Region of Peel is committed to providing accommodations throughout the recruitment process, upon request. If you require accommodation please notify us and we will work with you to meet your needs. Accessible formats and communication supports are available. Please contact [email protected] .

Please be advised, the Region of Peel uses email to communicate with their applicants for open job competitions. It is the applicant’s responsibility to include an updated email address that is checked daily and accepts emails from unknown users. As we send time sensitive correspondence via email (i.e. testing bookings, interview dates), it is imperative that applicants check their email regularly. If we do not hear back from applicants, we will assume that you are no longer interested in the position and your application will be removed from the competition.