Policy Analysis and Planning

Concept of Work
This Career Group provides career tracks for analysts, planners, and economists that perform or manage analytical work related to agency organization and operations; agency and state programs, plans, performance measures, policies, and procedures; regulatory and legislative processes; statistics; economics; central budgets; and research, development, and evaluation. The work ranges from entry-level analysis and planning to management as an executive in an agency having statewide impact.
Roles Comprising This Group
These roles describe the collective characteristics of the work performed by employees in the Policy Analysis and Planning Career Group. These roles define the typical career paths for employees who pursue careers as analysts, planners, and economists.
Although all of these occupations are analysts, each warrants a separate career track. Each of these career paths requires different knowledge, skills, and abilities and would not naturally lead to the other for career progression. However, a role for each of these occupations represents different levels of work, or career progression. Career paths may exist within a single role, extend to other roles in this Career Group, or to roles in other occupationally related Career Groups.
The Policy and Planning Specialist I role provides career tracks for statistical or management analysts performing responsibilities ranging from entry level analysis to advanced level complex statistical or management analysis. This role also provides a career track for planners performing planning and analytical responsibilities ranging from entry level to journey level. Responsibilities include providing management with a comprehensive view of operations by contributing to the preparation of reports, conducting analytical and statistical research and by providing alternative solutions and assessments of the long range impact of work processes and other implications of studies and projects