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Data Scientist

District of Columbia Courts · Other Agencies and Independent Organizations
📍 Washington, District of Columbia 💰 $117962 – $153354/yr 🏠 Telework eligible

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Job Summary

This position is located in the Strategic Management Division of the District of Columbia Courts. The division provides innovative strategies and evidence-based information to develop policies, enhance the administration of justice, and improve the quality of services at the Courts.

The incumbent in this role will be responsible for supporting the division's efforts to build the Courts' capacity to develop, collect, analyze and generate data and reports to enhance evidence-based decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

Brief Duties of the Position: Develops computational algorithms and statistical methods to find patterns and relationships in multiple database sources. Develops, manipulates, and manages scripts, queries, or software code to accomplish specific requirements or tasks. Designs, builds, and tests data models, algorithms, and predictive models.

Identifies and utilizes predictive modeling and machine learning techniques to improve program and operational processes and the agency's overall data quality. Provides informed data-driven insights leading to process and operational recommendations for the Courts and its stakeholders.

Applies computational and machine learning methods to new or large data sets to identify new insights using analytical tools, including spreadsheets, databases, programming languages, and statistical or visualization software. Conducts data quality reviews on court-wide caseload data from the enterprise data warehouse and major case processing systems.

Advises and consults with directors, managers, data points of contact, or discrepancies and works to obtain resolution; drafts performance analysis and reports. Develop and maintain data pipelines, scripts, documentation, and analytical methods to support long-term usability, transparency, and organizational knowledge sharing. Provides scientific, statistical, and technical consultation on applying the best applicable practices and new techniques.

Support enterprise data governance by ensuring proper data handling, documentation, access controls, and participation in development processes that enable secure and efficient data use. Develops and executes business intelligence analysis and reports for the Courts. Works closely with IT and other Court divisions to ensure data integrity across the Courts.

Codes with languages such as python or R and uses SQL and other data processing and analytics tools and software to analyze data sets, and uses data visualization tools such as MS Power BI, Tableau, MS Excel, and others to generate reports and develop compelling stories that convey statistical or technical information to non-technical audiences.

Requirements & Education

You must upload a copy of your college transcript or degree for consideration. The transcript must show the name of the college or university, your name, degree conferred date, a list of courses with credit hours, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking.

Foreign Education: If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must upload a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript at the time of application to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/

Benefits

This is not a federal position. The District of Columbia Courts is an independent branch of the District of Columbia Government and is not under the authority of the City Mayor or the D. C. Council. DC Courts' appropriation comes directly from Congress. All DC Courts non-judicial employees receive federal benefits for the following programs: Life Insurance, Retirement Benefits, Health Insurance and Workers Compensation.

Please click on the following for more information about these benefits: http://www.opm.gov/Insure/health/enrollment/new_employees.asp The DC Courts leave policy is as follows: Annual Leave: New full-time employees earn four (4) hours of annual leave biweekly. After three years of service this increases to six (6) hours biweekly, and at 15 years it increases to eight (8) hours biweekly.

Most military, federal and District of Columbia government service counts toward the time required to go into the next higher annual leave category. Employees can carry over no more than 240 hours of annual leave into the next leave year. Sick Leave is used for personal medical needs, care of a family member, or adoption related purposes. Full-time employees earn four (4) hours of sick leave biweekly. This leave can be accrued without limit.

In addition to the federal health plans, the DC Courts offer employees supplemental vision and dental plans as well as a commuter transit benefit subsidy, for a maximum of $150 a month. There are 26 pay periods in the year.

Contact

jobs@dccsystem.gov

Frequently Asked Questions

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with District of Columbia Courts, Other Agencies and Independent Organizations.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $117962 – $153354/yr.

Is this position remote or telework eligible?

This position is eligible for telework.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-11-13.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.

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