HBITS-07-14473-Business Analyst-Expert

Job Description
Project/Program:
Casework Contact Assurance Title IV-B

Job Description
Section 424(e) (1) of the Child and Family Services Improvement Act of 2006, a State cannot receive Title IV-B, subpart 1 funds unless it has provided prior fiscal year data which shows: the percentage of children in foster care who were visited monthly by the caseworker handling the case of the child; and the percentage of visits that occurred in the residence of the child. The current national standard is 95% of children visited on monthly basis.

The Casework Contact Assurance special project staff will continue to provide operational and focused management support to the NYC based voluntary agencies in their efforts to make certain that their staff make and document the required visits. The position will support the Regional Office in the monitoring of the voluntary agencies case management/case planning responsibilities including compliance with OCFS child safety and CPS monitoring requirements.

Day To Day
Primary duties will include collecting, analyzing, and documenting the required data, information and goals and transferring the same to the senior analyst team. The candidate will review business process and requirements of voluntary agencies, elicit requirements from them using interviews, surveys, site visits, and business process descriptions. Communicate and collaborate with OCFS staff, local social services district staff (the Administration for Children's Services) and voluntary agency staff to analyze information needs and ensure recommended solutions are implemented. Provide on-site monitoring to New York City Administration for Children Services (ACS) and Voluntary Child Care agencies located in the NYC region to address casework quality and quantitative standards in addition to review and analyses of Family Assessment and Service Plans quality and timeliness. Review data collection and analysis in Data Warehouse to assess the impact of policies and procedures and provide for greater adherence to the principles of the federal standard. Identify barriers to achieving the required standards for Districts and Agencies. Attend stakeholder and implementation meetings and present to OCFS Leadership. Following assessment of NYC overall casework contact data, and coding, will propose solutions, strategies, and best practices to OCFS leadership that are aligned with organizational goals. Provide technical assistance and guidance to Junior and Senior Business Analysts. Formulate and design SQL queries to obtain raw data and create adhoc reports. Any other duties deemed necessary by the Regional Office, that impact permanency for youth.

Mandatory Qualifications
Business Analyst:
Analyzes an organization or business domain (real or hypothetical) and documents its business or processes or systems, assessing the business model or its integration with technology with distinct deliverables to a solution.

Expert:
84+ months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.

Requested Qualifications

• 84 months experience with writing business process definition, business rules and business process decompositions, experience extracting business rules from existing computer applications and systems.
• 84 months experience in Change Management planning and implementing change, including analyzing business processes for efficiency and compliance with New York State and/or Federal regulations.
• 84 months experience working directly with users in a human services arena providing training or technical assistance either in a classroom or in a work environment.
• 84 months experience working in a Health and Human Services based system.
• 84 months experience analyzing applications that use relational databases such as Oracle and application tools such as COGNOS.
• 84 months experience using Microsoft Suite and ability to manipulate software such as Excel, Access, and Project to manipulate data.
• 84 months experience with child welfare programs
• 84 months experience interpreting State and Federal laws and regulations governing health and human services programs.