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Recognized among BC’s Top Employers and Canada’s Greenest Employers, the City of Vancouver is seeking colleagues who can help advance our core commitments to exceptional public service, sustainability, equity, and an outstanding quality of life for all residents.\nWith a strong commitment to being a City of Reconciliation, we invite you to join our dedicated team and become part of an innovative, inclusive, and engaging workplace. A career with the City of Vancouver and within the broader public service, offers meaningful work where you play a key role in ensuring equitable access to services, upholding ethical governance, and supporting the needs of citizens with integrity and dedication.\nMain Purpose and Function\nThe Decision Support Analyst is part of the City’s Centre of Expertise for Performance Measurement and Decision Support, within the Strategy and Project Support Office (SPSO). The role supports evidence-informed decision-making across the City by helping leaders understand service performance, assess options, evaluate outcomes, and identify opportunities to improve accountability, transparency and value for money.\nThe role combines performance measurement, service evaluation, business analysis and business intelligence to help leaders make sound strategic, operational and service-delivery decisions. A core part of the team’s mandate is enabling the delivery of an enterprise-wide corporate planning process and the evaluation of City services, ensuring decisions are grounded in consistent, comparable evidence.\nThe analysis considers operational, financial, resource and service-delivery implications and supports recommendations to managers and senior leaders.\nThe Decision Support Analyst partners closely with corporate and departmental teams to build a culture of data-informed decision-making across the City. This includes increasing data literacy, enabling data exploration, supporting adoption of business intelligence tools, and translating complex analysis into clear, decision-ready insight.\nSpecific Duties/Responsibilities\nPerformance Measurement and Corporate Planning\nSupports performance measurement reporting by linking City services and service plans to performance metrics, departmental work plans and the corporate plan.\nSupports the design and delivery of the City’s enterprise-wide corporate planning process, helping connect service plans, performance measures and corporate priorities.\nSupports corporate, capital and service-planning processes by connecting service plans and performance information to operating requirements, costs and resource implications.\nDevelops, monitors and analyzes performance metrics and benchmarks to assess the efficiency, effectiveness and outcomes of City services.\nHelps identify short-term and long-term measures that support continuous improvement, service planning and corporate accountability.\nReviews and analyzes how major City decisions may affect service plans, performance measures and service-delivery outcomes.\nService Evaluation and Decision Support\nContributes to the evaluation of City services by helping define evaluation questions, identify measures of success, gather evidence, analyze outcomes and summarize findings.\nSynthesizes quantitative and qualitative evidence into clear findings, implications and options for decision-makers.\nProvides analytical decision support, including business analysis, options analysis, scenario modelling and business case development, and develops findings and recommendations for managers and senior leaders.\nAnalyzes and develops service proposals and business cases, including their operating, financial, resource, risk, benefit and performance implications.\nAssists client departments in identifying opportunities to improve service outcomes, strengthen accountability, increase transparency and support value-for-money decision-making.\nApplies structured problem-solving approaches to complex business, operational and service-delivery questions.\nAnalytics, Reporting and Data Quality\nDevelops and maintains datasets, reports, dashboards and analytical models using tools such as Power BI, Excel, SQL and other business intelligence platforms.\nSupports the development of user-friendly reporting products that help leaders and service owners understand performance, trends, risks and opportunities.\nWorks with client departments to identify and remediate data quality issues that affect reporting, analysis and decision-making.\nSupports the team’s use of modern analytics platforms, including Microsoft Fabric, Databricks or similar tools, as required.\nContributes to the development of consistent reporting methods, data definitions and analytical approaches across the City.\nStakeholder Support and BI Adoption\nWorks with client departments to understand business needs, clarify decision questions and translate those needs into useful analytical products.\nSupports adoption of business intelligence tools by developing guidance materials, providing training or coaching, and helping users interpret and apply performance information.\nBuilds effective working relationships with technical, professional and operational staff across the City.\nPresents analysis clearly and appropriately for different audiences, including operational teams, managers and senior leaders.\nSupports a culture of data-informed decision-making by helping departments use evidence to understand performance, improve services and make better decisions.\nOther duties as assigned.\nMinimum Qualification Requirements\nEducation and Experience:\nA relevant master’s degree, such as Business Analytics, Commerce, Economics, Statistics, Public Policy, Public Administration or an MBA, or a professional designation, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience. Examples include a CPA.\nMinimum 4-5 years of experience in performance measurement, data analytics, service or program evaluation, business analysis, business intelligence or a related field, ideally in a large, complex organization.\nKnowledge, Skills and Abilities:\nConsiderable knowledge of performance metrics, benchmarking and service evaluation, with the ability to link operational and financial measures to service outcomes.\nConsiderable knowledge of business intelligence, analytics and automation tools to transform data into reliable, user-friendly reporting and decision-support products.\nConsiderable knowledge of business intelligence and analytics tools such as Power BI, Excel, SQL and data modelling approaches.\nConsiderable knowledge of designing performance measures, indicators or evaluation approaches that inform strategic, operational or service-delivery decisions.\nAbility to support corporate planning, service planning, business planning or enterprise reporting processes.\nAbility to systematically frame and breakdown complex issues, opportunities or service questions, and reaches conclusions supported by evidence and sound judgment.\nAbility to work with structured data, analytical models, data quality issues and modern BI platforms, with the ability to partner effectively with technical teams.\nAbility to turn quantitative and qualitative information into clear findings, implications and recommendations.\nAbility to present complex analysis simply and compellingly in writing, verbally and through reports, dashboards and presentations.\nExperience supporting multi-stakeholder initiatives and presenting analysis to a range of audiences, including managers and senior leaders.\nAbility to focus on accuracy, definitions and analytical detail without losing sight of the broader business or service context.\nAbility to approach problem-solving with professional judgment, confidentiality, tact and diplomacy.\nCollaborative. Builds effective working relationships with technical, professional, operational and senior management staff across the City.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities, projects and deadlines in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.\nKnowledge of Python, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Power Automate or similar analytics, automation or cloud data platforms is an asset\nBusiness Unit/Department: City Manager's Office\nAffiliation: Exempt\nEmployment Type: Regular Full Time\nSalary Information: Pay range 080: $102,960 to $128,691 per annum\nApplication Close: October 9, 2026\nAt the City of Vancouver, we are committed torecruiting a diverse workforce that represents the community we so proudly serve. Indigenous peoples, people of colour, 2SLGBTQ+ persons including all genders and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Accommodations will be provided upon request during the selection process. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion.\nThe City of Vancouver acknowledges that it is situated on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation).More about unceded traditional territories\nBefore you click Apply now\nOnce you start your application you can save your work and leave the applications page, however please remember to submit your profile to the specific job requisition before the posting closing date. \nIn addition to uploading your cover letter and resume, part of the application process may include answering application questions related to the preferred requirements of the role which may take approx. 5-10 minutes. 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