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DATA ANALYTICS SPECIALIST- SENIOR

Tennessee Department of Corrections

Planning Division

Nashville, TN

Salary: $78,528 - $124,356.00

Closing Date: 06/01/2026

Who we are and what we do

The mission of the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) is to operate safe and secure prisons and provide effective community supervision in order to enhance public safety. The department manages and operates or oversees 14 state prisons housing approximately 21,000 offenders.

In addition, the department supervises some 79,000 offenders on probation, parole, or community correction and operates six Day Reporting/Community Resource Centers across the state. The department is fully accredited by the American Correctional Association (ACA).

Job Overview

Senior Data Analytics Specialists at the Tennessee Department of Correction play a critical role in supporting data-driven decision making across the agency.

This position is responsible for extracting, analyzing, validating, and reporting data to inform both operational and strategic initiatives by leveraging complex queries and advanced analytics using SQL, SAS, Tableau, Power BI, and other platforms to produce high-quality statistical outputs and comprehensive reports.

This role creates and distributes data reports to internal and external business users, ensuring reporting design and methods are as efficient as possible. This may include changing how data is gathered, how it is fashioned into a report, and how it is delivered to users as technological advances allow new efficiencies in these areas.

This role interprets data to identify meaningful patterns and trends and communicates these insights clearly to stakeholders along with providing broad data and analytics support to multiple business units.

Key Responsibilities

Extracts, analyzes, validates, and reports data through complex queries and advanced analytics using SQL, SAS, Tableau, and other tools, and performs advanced data procedures and statistical methods.
Builds and sustains relationships with internal and external business users, vendors, and stakeholders to regularly communicate and interpret data reports and analyses, ensuring provided data both remains useful and continues to meet their needs.
Provides data and analytics support to multiple business units and external stakeholders and contributes to strategic planning for complex programs.
Independently writes narrative reports about data to explain the implications of data results in clear, accessible language for a general audience.
Leads internal evaluations of existing programs using advanced statistical methods tailored to each project.
Independently partners with stakeholders to explain data and the rationale behind data choices and offers recommendations as needed.
Designs and executes new queries to produce timely data and reports for high priority stakeholders, including legislators and the Governor''s office.

Minimum Qualifications

Requires a bachelor''s degree in quantitative or related discipline AND 2 or more years of relevant professional work experience.

A Master''s degree in a quantitative or related discipline.

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.

Skills

Analysis Skills, Communication Skills, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Quality, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Operational Strategy, Power BI, Program Evaluation, Program Planning, Public Safety, Query Analysis, Reporting Skills, SQL (Structured Query Language), Statistical Analysis System (SAS), Statistical Programming Languages, Statistics, Strategic Planning, Tableau, Time Management

About the Company

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