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Demographer

Posted: 5/14/2023 (Employment)

Under general supervision, to understand, estimate, model, and project the population living in the county for department and other key stakeholder needs, including modeling complex demographic processes (such as birth, death, fertility, immigration, aging), discovering insights on population changes, and identifying opportunities through the application of demographic methodologies. The Demographer will direct staff in these functions.

COVID-19 Risk Level – Low Risk 

 

Typical Tasks

 

The following are the duties performed by employees in this classification. However, employees may perform other related duties at an equivalent level. Each individual in the classification does not necessarily perform all duties listed.

 

  • Makes strategic recommendations on the design and approach for complex demographic data analytic projects;

 

  • Develops and identifies priorities, problems, and other conditions of significance that could be informed by the application of demographic procedures and methodologies, including and accounting for health equity considerations;

 

  • Designs, adjusts, and maintains estimates of the size and makeup of populations countywide, in sub-county geographies, and in small, vulnerable, and hard-to-reach populations;

 

  • Designs, conducts, and may lead analyses and studies to understand population distribution and the determinants and effects of changes in the population, including birth rates, death rates, life expectancy, household makeup, and immigration;

 

  • Develops projections of population changes and density, including variation by demographic characteristics and for specific sub-populations;

 

  • Develops creative solutions to data analysis and demographic modeling problems;

 

  • Gatherers, cleans, assembles, and analyzes data and produces reports and summaries;

 

  • Reviews and evaluates databases and surveys for error and limitation; uses statistical methods to supplement missing data;

 

  • Utilizes and analyzes data from the U.S. Census, other local, state, and federal surveys, administrative datasets, and state surveillance systems to inform understanding of and predict trends in population distribution and density; extracts appropriate data, develops and interprets results, provides summary statistics;

 

  • Translates demographic information to inform policy and strategy; monitors, interprets, and forecasts demographic trends impacting health and wellbeing;

 

  • Leads and participates in geospatial analyses of populations countywide and in sub-county areas, including descriptive and predictive modeling and hot-spotting;

 

  • Provides demographic support for countywide inter-jurisdictional planning efforts; participate on, and provide technical support to, committees as assigned; acts as demographic liaison to state, other county, city, or community agencies.

 

  • Participates in multi-disciplinary teams in designing and conducting studies and analyses requiring complex statistical approaches;

 

  • Manages and merges large datasets and performs data cleaning, editing, and quality control;

 

  • Designs and administers population health, economic, demographic, and social surveys to assess the impacts of and recovery from disasters and other conditions of significance, both countywide and on hard-to-reach and vulnerable populations;

 

  • Validates the design and analytic approaches using demographic modeling;

 

  • Identifies/creates the appropriate algorithms, statistical, and demographic models to discover patterns and meaning from population-based data to support decision making;

 

  • Reviews technical and professional literature to identify specific findings, inform design, and select appropriate methodologies;

 

  • Monitors and maintains ethical, privacy, and security issues related to health data, including coordination with county counsel, compliance, and County IRB chairs;

 

  • Coordinates with other managers and staff around surveillance, epidemiology, population health sciences, research, evaluation, and performance management and quality improvement activities;

 

  • Supports development and maintenance of partnerships with colleges and universities, other CSCHS government agencies, community-based organizations, other organizations, and relevant professional associations;

 

  • Participates in meetings and consult with stakeholders concerning studies and reports needed for policy and program planning, monitoring and evaluation;

 

  • Serves as a member of task forces or committees requiring obtaining, analyzing, and organizing data;

 

  • Educates the organization on new approaches, new hypotheses to test, and statistical validation of results;

 

  • Provides on-going tracking and monitoring of performance of decision systems and statistical models;

 

  • Prepares and participates in RFP processes, writes grant proposals, reports, program documentation, policies, procedures, and other written materials;

 

  • May be assigned as a Disaster Service Worker (DSW), as required*;

 

  • Performs other related duties, as required.

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Deadline: 05/17/2023

Location: County of Santa Clara