Intern, Data Quality Program

3 months ago


Halifax, Canada Province of Nova Scotia Full time

**Department**:Service Nova Scotia

**Location**:HALIFAX

**Type of Employment**:Internship

**Union Status**:Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG

**Closing Date**:10-Jun-24 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

**About Us**:
Service Nova Scotia (SNS) employees together to build relationships with every citizen, business, and municipality in Nova Scotia by understanding evolving client needs and balancing these needs with the public good. SNS provides client-focused services directly and enables other Departments to deliver programs and services quickly and easily. SNS carries out broad legislative mandates, being responsible for the administration and enforcement of a wide array of legislation and regulations.

Service excellence is at the heart of everything we do. As part of our core business, we provide a vast array of services to the citizens and businesses of Nova Scotia. We also provide the services, tools, and supports that enable other government departments and public sector entities to focus on providing quality services.

Procurement, as a branch of Service Nova Scotia, manages strategic and high value purchases for all Government Departments and the Nova Scotia Health Authority while providing procurement support to agencies, boards, commissions and the broader Nova Scotia public sector. NS Procurement works to ensure an open and fair purchasing process, maximizing competition to obtain ‘best value’ while supporting the environmental, economic and social goals of Government.

**About Our Opportunity**:
Procurement’s Business Intelligence Team provides business systems support and analytics services for the branch and to a very broad client base across the Nova Scotia Public Sector. The BI Team is involved in everything from daily service and support up to larger transformational projects impacting the broader Procurement service and its clients.

This position reports to the Manager, Procurement Analytics.

**Primary Accountabilities**:
As an Intern, Data Quality Program, you will:

- Support implementation and maintenance of procurement data quality management program.
- Perform data profiling, calculate and report data quality metrics.
- Support in report clean-up exercise.
- Support in requirements gathering, for creating of new reports by documenting data requirement gathered from the key stakeholders.
- Provide support for the technical data steward in the new data quality program to be implemented.
- Provide a relief and back-up for data analysts.
- Manage and document critical data elements approved by the division leadership.
- Create and a repository of the data defects for correction and follow-up to resolution.
- Support users in understanding current features and functionality of business systems in place to support procurement activity through one-on-one consultation or presentations/demonstrations to broader user groups.
- Perform scribe function during the data governance assessment and will support data governance process documentations.
- Work with various BI tools (Microsoft Power BI tools, Microsoft excel, word and Microsoft Project, SQL, Tableau and python, AI knowledge will be nice to have)
- Identify opportunities, research, and evaluate the feasibility and organizational need/readiness around options to expand business system features and/or functionality.
- Work as part of a team or independently on specific initiatives designed to support or streamline procurement operations through business system enhancements, from soliciting and documenting business requirements through to user testing and post-implementation support.
- Liaise with other departments, contracted consultants, software vendors and/or cloud service providers.
- Participate in knowledge sharing activities with team members.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

**Qualifications and Experience**:
To be considered for this position, you must be a recent graduate from a college diploma or a university bachelor’s degree in a related field (such as Computer Science, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence Analytics Business Administration, eCommerce, etc.).

In addition, you must be knowledgeable in:

- Business analysis principles and techniques
- Basic principles of data governance and definitions of the data management knowledge areas
- Researching and defining recommended options for business technology and/or service solutions
- Creating documentation for system or process changes, including writing procedures or user guides
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office 365, spreadsheets, diagramming, and presentation software.

You have excellent analytical, problem solving, organizational, facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills. You work independently using sound judgement. You also work collaboratively with teammates, building relationships with clients and stakeholders to understand business needs, and ensure relevant changes are monitored, tested, evaluated an



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