Crime Analyst

Arizona State University•Mesa, AZ

1d•Onsite

About The Position

A crime analyst is needed to work in the offices of the Mesa Police Department (MPD). The staff member will be employed by ASU but will work under the supervision of MPD's Crime Analysis Unit and Brooks Louton, Clinical Assistant Professor at ASU. The project is intended to enhance crime analysis capacity through increased staffing immediately and expose staff to more advanced crime analysis concepts and methods and build staff skills that will enable them to formulate and address problems of interest to their agency/organization. Please note, this position will be located at the Mesa Police Department.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and three (3) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.
Knowledge of the principles and practices pertaining to the assigned department.
Knowledge of administrative, financial, and business management principles and practices.
Knowledge of analysis techniques and reporting strategies.
Knowledge of computing and data analysis.
Knowledge of data management and information technologies.
Knowledge of supervisory principles practices and techniques.
Knowledge of the principles of exemplary customer service demonstrated through actively listening, acknowledging, and responding to every inquiry; taking ownership and resolving each concern or problem as appropriate; exhibiting professionalism and expertise in every interaction and engaging in professional development to meet expectations for service excellence.
Experience in quantitative data analysis and interpretation.
Experience in collecting, organizing, synthesizing and analyzing data; summarizing findings; developing conclusions and recommendations.
Experience in planning, analyzing, and coordinating activities and establishing priorities.
Experience in managing multiple priorities.
Experience in accurately and reliably interpret data for determining appropriate action.
Experience in stimulating changes in individual, institutional, and corporate behaviors to create a more.
Experience in leading by example in communicating, participating and encouraging support of the institution's sustainability program.

Nice To Haves

Currently a Criminal Justice Masters Student.

Responsibilities

Participates, supports, and prepares data analysis and reporting for police decision-making.
Performs tactical, strategic, and administrative crime analysis.
Performs research analysis to understand current performance, analyze trends, and assists in making recommendations for future project performances.
Assists in the development of measurements and metrics for data analysis to be used for business decision-making, planning, and process improvement.
Securely collects, cleanses, standardize, transforms and stores data from various sources ensuring data integrity.
Uses predictive modeling, statistics, trend analysis and other data analysis techniques to collect, explore, and identify the right data to be analyzed from internal and external sources.
Responsible for regularly auditing data input; audits may involve studying number, organization practices and customer feedback.
Prepares or coordinates preparation of reports; analyzes and interprets statistics, financial data, and management planning data for predicting resource needs and developing long range plans.
Maintains awareness of current trends in data collection and organization, data preservation, and numeric data analysis by participation in appropriate professional activities and contributing to research in the field: to implement procedures and technologies that assure the long-term sustainability and accessibility of datasets.
Utilizes various computer programs and software to perform data computation, statistical analysis and other data manipulation activities.
May perform other duties as assigned.