Data Manager

The New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO), a nonpartisan, independent agency that provides data driven fiscal and policy insights into New York City’s budget, economy, and operations, is seeking an analytical, self-motivated Data Manager to join our agency. Under the direction of the Assistant Director for Data Acquisition and Governance, the Data Manager will help oversee IBO’s data life cycle - from ingestion and cleaning to analysis, compliance, and quality assurance - ensuring that public reports and research are grounded in rigorous, high-quality data.

Key Responsibilities: *

• Identify, source, and import data from internal and external sources.
• Participate in development and documentation of standardized data collection and intake processes.
• Coordinate with researchers and external partners to obtain required datasets.
• Clean, validate, and standardize datasets to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Research Support & Analytics: Conduct basic statistical modeling, and data validation to support policy analysts and researchers.
• Rapid-Response Requests: Efficiently query and analyze datasets to help the team meet tight timelines for data requests from the media, government officials, and public.
• Data Stewardship: Maintain organized data storage systems and databases, assist in management of access permissions and ensuring data is readily available to authorized users, create clear data dictionaries/documentation.
• Public Outreach and Engagement: Participate effectively in team-based efforts to convey complex data and analytical content clearly for a wide range of audiences.
• Ensure data handling complies with relevant agreements and regulations, maintain documentation for audits and agreements, monitor and enforce data security, privacy, and confidentiality standards.

Qualifications: *

• Experience and Education:
• Graduate degree in data analysis, computer science, public policy, economics, or a related quantitative field; OR
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, plus 2 to 3 years of relevant post-graduation professional experience managing, processing, and analyzing large datasets; OR
• An equivalent combination of education, specialized training, and directly relevant professional experience.
• Technical Skills: Strong proficiency in programming languages used for data manipulation and statistical packages (such as R, Python, or SQL) and advanced Excel. Experience with version control tools (like Git/GitHub) or reproducible data workflows, and/or proficiency with SAS is a strong plus.
• Core Competencies: Exceptional attention to detail, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage multiple time sensitive data projects simultaneously in a collaborative environment.

Salary Range: $80,000-$100,000, commensurate with education and work experience.

Other Information:

New York City residency must be established within 90 days of appointment and is required for the first two years of city service, after which employees may reside in Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk, or Westchester Counties. Foreign nationals must have a valid permanent resident card (“green card”) or renewable work permit.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual’s sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.

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IBO maintains hybrid work schedules.

• Graduate degree in data analysis, computer science, public policy, economics, or a related quantitative field; OR
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, plus 2 to 3 years of relevant post-graduation professional experience managing, processing, and analyzing large datasets; OR
• An equivalent combination of education, specialized training, and directly relevant professional experience.
• Technical Skills: Strong proficiency in programming languages used for data manipulation and statistical packages (such as R, Python, or SQL) and advanced Excel. Experience with version control tools (like Git/GitHub) or reproducible data workflows, and/or proficiency with SAS is a strong plus.
• Core Competencies: Exceptional attention to detail, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage multiple time sensitive data projects simultaneously in a collaborative environment., New York City residency must be established within 90 days of appointment and is required for the first two years of city service, after which employees may reside in Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk, or Westchester Counties. Foreign nationals must have a valid permanent resident card (“green card”) or renewable work permit.

Salary Range: $80,000-$100,000, commensurate with education and work experience.