DATA ANALYTICS SPECIALIST - 79774

Executive Service

DATA ANALYTICS SPECIALIST

Department of Human Services

Data Strategies Unit (DSU)

Nashville, TN

Annual Salary: $67,764.00 - $87,912.00

Closing Date: 08/17/2026

This is a remote position

For more information, visit the link below:

https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/human-services/documents/DATA_ANALYTICS_SPECIALIST_Davidson_81726.pdf

Background Check:

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Who we are and what we do:

DHS Mission: Strengthen Tennessee by Strengthening Tennesseans

DHS Vision: To revolutionize the customer experience by growing capacity to reduce dependency.

DHS Values:

• High Performance

• Collaboration

• Continuous Improvement

• A shared Vision

• Customer-Centered Solutions

Job Overview:

• This vacancy is within the Tennessee Department of Human Services (TDHS), Division of Data Strategies Unit (DSU).
• The Data Analytics Specialists are responsible for extracting, analyzing, validating, and reporting data. Specialists utilize complex queries and analytics in SQL, SAS, Tableau, and other languages or platforms to obtain statistical data and develop reports.
• The Data Analytics Specialists evaluate data to determine significant patterns and trends and then present and explain these findings to both lay and expert stakeholders. They provide data and analytics services to multiple business units as well as stakeholders beyond the agency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct advanced data queries, data cleaning, data aggregations, dashboard preparation and maintenance; running quality checking, and delivering routine reports; and running and delivering ad hoc requests using statistical and data software analytical programs (SAS, SQL, Python, and or Tableau).
• Perform descriptive, predictive, and inferential statistical analyses, and provide thorough documentation of projects and processes.
• Comply with regulations and mandates for data privacy requirements, and complete data request projects in a timely manner.
• Engage in regular contact with stakeholders such as data leads and department representatives to provide expertise and guidance.
• Maintain relations and communicates with internal and external business users, vendors, and/or stakeholders to explain data reports and analyses.
• Primary communication centers around clarifying data values or parameters used for the analysis.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or related discipline (i.e., statistics, applied statistics, mathematics, biostatistics, economics, epidemiology, computer science, social or behavioral sciences, health sciences, business, business administration, public administration, public policy, or other related field)

OR

• 4 years of relevant professional work experience

OR

• a combination of years of relevant college coursework and years of relevant professional work experience totaling four.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.