Task 1 RESEARCH AND PLANNING
Under the guidance of OAAM staff, provide support with research and planning activities, but are not limited to:
- Assisting in the annual programmatic and financial monitoring plan development process, as well as quarterly updates.
- Verifying that planned monitoring activities were conducted.
- Advising on the design of core assessment elements, including assessment objectives, available data sources, methods of data collection, and areas of risk.
- Conducting research of authorizing statutes, appropriations language, and legislative committee and conference reports, regulatory guidance, strategic plans or annual program plans, legal opinions, current and historical solicitations, program goals and program guidance, internal performance and program data, topical studies conducted by nonprofit organizations, universities, and research organizations, including information available at CrimeSolutions.gov, and audits conducted by government entities, such as the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
Task 2 DATA ANALYTICS
Under the guidance of OAAM, provide analytical support for a variety of mission related tasks, including, but not limited to:
- Build databases to collect and analyze data and/or tracking tools to assess workload or grant award administration.
- Develop and quality assure complex queries of relational databases.
- Read, clean, combine, and modify datasets of all sizes.
- Extract, compile, prepare, and present data.
- Plan and conduct structured interviews, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups.
- Apply best practices in text analysis, coding, data table design, and data visualization.
- Apply statistical methodologies and software for sampling, testing, modeling, and interpretation.
- Perform analytics to identify trends and patterns, compare variables, discover correlations, and draw insights.
- Create data-focused reports summarizing methods, presenting data, and interpreting results.
- Design, implement, and evaluate quality assurance techniques and tools.
- Apply advanced analytical techniques including but not limited to risk analysis, compliance analysis, statistical analysis, programmatic monitoring analysis, and survey analysis.
- Data collection and analysis for ad hoc and short turnaround data requests, metric reports, and report requests using variety of tools, including Enterprise Reporting Tools, Microsoft Excel, SAS, and SPSS.
- Evaluate trainings and identify opportunities for enhancing future trainings
Task 3 DOCUMENT DEVELOPMENT AND REVIEW
Under the guidance of OAAM staff, providing support for the development and enhancement of agency wide reports, policies, procedures, tools, and support for internal working groups includes, but is not limited to:
- Providing technical expertise in identifying, evaluating, and developing effective policies, procedures, and systems.
- Supporting and offering input in updating of OAAM policies, procedures, tools, and best practices.
- Aiding federal staff in drafting monthly, quarterly, and annual monitoring metric reports to report on program office monitoring activities.
- Preparing quarterly risk assessments on high priority grant programs.
- Assisting in the review of programmatic monitoring documentation to ensure that DOJ grant-making offices are conducting complete, accurate, and quality monitoring activities.
- Participating in the technical writing of the assessment reports, including developing outlines and storyboards.
- Creating innovative and effective ways to format, design, and present various data to intended audiences.
- Preparing slide content, taking meeting notes, and facilitating meetings, when necessary.
Task 4 OTHER MISSION-RELATED TASKS
Under the guidance of OAAM staff, providing support for the development and enhancement of agency wide reports, policies, procedures, tools, and support for internal working groups includes, but is not limited to:
- Maintain SharePoint sites following OJP’s Change Management policies and protocol and other relevant OJP requirements.
- Working with development teams, project managers, and stakeholders to develop technical solutions to solve business problems.
- Assess current environment and recommend future products, tools, infrastructures, and designs that will meet OAAM’s needs and resources.
