Research and Statistics Officer 4
Competition # : 47129
Department: Health and Wellness
Location: HALIFAX
Type of Employment: Permanent
Union Status: NSGEU - NSPG
Closing Date: 29-Oct-25 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)
About Us
The Department of Health and Wellness offers opportunities to grow and advance in a dynamic sector that touches the lives of all Nova Scotians. Along with our partners, including the Nova Scotia Health Authority and the IWK Health Centre, we are committed to continually improving our health care system. With a focus on collaborative primary health care, continuing care, improved supports for mental health and addictions, digital health, capital infrastructure, and more, the department is thinking differently about how to plan, fund, legislate and monitor to improve access and service delivery. To do this, we need leaders at all levels of the organization who embrace a challenge and believe in their ability to make a difference.
About Our Opportunity
The role of the Research & Statistical Officer 4 is a senior analyst responsible for extracting knowledge from health systems and population health data assets to support data-driven decision making. You will lead health-related advanced analytical projects and models complex business problems, discovering business insights and identifying opportunities using statistical, algorithmic, mining and visualization techniques. The RSO4 contributes to policy and decision making within the Department of Health and Wellness and the planning and management of Nova Scotia’s health system.
Primary Accountabilities
- Providing evidence-informed advice to senior management to support strategic decision making and to address health and wellness policy issues impacting Nova Scotians.
- Planning, implementing, managing, and leading project teams to respond to critical issues facing the department.
- Initiating proactive analysis of data to uncover insights hidden in existing and new data sources.
- Contributing to a departmental culture of inquiry through the communication of results from complex analyses to a wide variety of internal and external audiences.
- Preparing reports for management and provide input into briefing notes and correspondence through research and collaboration with stakeholders.
- Developing and maintaining productive relationships across government, the health system, and various external partners, such as academia.
- Developing data visualization solutions using tools such as Microsoft Power BI, and applying techniques to present complex information clearly and effectively.
Qualifications and Experience
As the successful candidate, you have a Bachelor’s degree + 7 years related experience; or Master’s degree + 5 years’ related experience with a statistical quantitative emphasis. You also demonstrate the following abilities:
- Demonstrated knowledge of and experience using data inference, as well as predictive and prescriptive analytical approaches.
- Demonstrated extensive experience integrating and preparing large, varied datasets, architecting specialized databases, and communicating results to a broad group of stakeholders.
- A proven ability to collect, analyze and use a wide range of data sources, identify innovative, advanced analytical approaches to model complex business problems, reflect critically on the evidence, and communicate findings to non-technical audiences.
- Knowledge of performance measurement, accountability, evaluation principles and techniques.
- Proven expertise in research, information analysis, synthesis, interpretation, and report writing skills.
- Given the high degree of involvement with interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral groups, the incumbent requires demonstrated excellent interpersonal, team building and communication skills.
- Established experience with using business knowledge combined with statistical, algorithmic, mining and visualization techniques.
- Experience developing data visualization solutions using tools such as Microsoft Power BI would be considered an asset.
Benefits
Based on the employment status and union agreement, the Government of Nova Scotia offers its employees a wide range of benefits such as a Defined Benefit Pension Plan, Health, Dental, Life Insurance, General illness, Short and Long Term Disability, Vacation and Employee and Family Assistance Programs. For information on all our Benefit program offerings, click here: Benefits for government employees.
What We Offer
- Career development where you have access to career guidance, tools, resources, and ongoing training for every stage of your career
- Engaging workplace: our employees feel valued, respected, connected, and tuned in, we have forward-thinking policies and strategies
- Countless career paths
- Department specific flexible working schedules
Pay Grade: PR 15
Salary Range: $2,760.42 - $3,364.90 Bi-Weekly
Employment Equity Statement:
Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens we serve. The Government of Nova Scotia has an Employment Equity Policy, and we welcome applications from Indigenous People, African Nova Scotians and Other Racially Visible Persons, Persons with Disabilities and Women in occupations or positions where they are under-represented. If you are a member of one of these equity groups, you are encouraged to self-identify on your electronic application.
Accommodation Statement:
We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Candidates may request accommodations based on any grounds protected by the Human Rights Act. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process, please contact us at competitions@novascotia.ca.
This is a bargaining unit position initially restricted to current civil service employees represented by the Nova Scotia Government Employees Union (NSGEU). If applying from outside a government office, employees must apply correctly via this link:
Failure to apply correctly means that your application will not be given first consideration as a bargaining unit applicant, and will only be included if external applications are pursued.
External applicants and current casual employees will only be considered if there are no qualified civil service bargaining unit candidates. PLEASE NOTE: Candidates will not be considered for an interview if applications are incomplete or are missing information.
Offer of employment is conditional upon the completion of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials, the results of which must be satisfactory to the employer. We thank all applicants for the interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. All questions and concerns may be directed to Competitions@novascotia.ca.
