What are the responsibilities and job description for the Strategy and Performance Coordinator position at Chesterfield County, VA?
Minimum Qualifications
Chesterfield County is seeking a Strategy and Performance Strategy Coordinator to help strengthen how the County uses data, measures, analysis, and service information to support planning, budgeting, and management decisions.
Chesterfield already has strong budget practices, disciplined financial management, and departments that use data and operational knowledge to guide their work. This position will build on that foundation by expanding the Office of Budget and Performance Management’s capacity for performance analysis, service review, forecasting, program evaluation, and follow-up after major decisions.
This is a hands-on analytical role for someone who can work with data, ask practical questions, and help departments turn information into clearer decisions and stronger results.
What You’ll Do
You will help departments and County leadership answer practical questions such as:
What is happening with the service?
What does the data show?
What problem are we trying to solve?
What would change if this request or initiative moves forward?
What will it cost now and over time?
How should we track whether it worked?
You will:
- Develop and refine performance measures, KPIs, service indicators, and reporting tools.
- Analyze data to identify trends, risks, service pressures, and areas for improvement.
- Prepare dashboards, scorecards, reports, presentations, and briefing materials.
- Analyze the financial, operational, and service impacts of major initiatives so leadership can understand costs, benefits, risks, timing, and long-term commitments before decisions are made.
- Support forecasting, scenario analysis, and financial reviews involving projected costs, potential revenues, operating needs, service impacts, and future budget effects.
- Help departments review program effectiveness, service delivery, workload, demand, efficiency, quality, access, risk, and outcomes.
- Support strategic planning, budget development, performance review, and continuous improvement efforts.
- Assist with survey analysis, benchmarking, and research that helps explain service demand, trends, community needs, and peer practices.
- Work with budget analysts, departments, leadership, and other staff to connect financial, operational, and performance information.
- Perform other work as required.
The role is not just about producing reports. It is about helping the County make better use of the information it already has, identifying where better information is needed, and applying analysis in a way that supports practical decisions.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is analytical, practical, and comfortable working with departments. They can work with imperfect data, ask good questions, and explain findings clearly.
We are looking for someone who can:
- Build useful measures, not just more measures.
- Explain data and analysis in plain language.
- Understand how services, operations, budgets, and results connect.
- Review assumptions, test scenarios, and identify financial or operational risks.
- Work well with departments and help them think through service issues.
- Develop clear financial and operational analysis.
- Identify where services, processes, or resources may need attention.
- Balance data with real-world department experience.
- Help make performance information more useful for planning, budgeting, management, and follow-up.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in public administration, business administration, data analytics, statistics, economics, finance, information systems, or a related field; and three years of progressively responsible experience in data analysis, performance measurement, reporting, forecasting, program evaluation, financial analysis, or related work; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Pre-employment drug testing, FBI criminal background check and education/degree verification required.
This position is considered Safety Sensitive and is subject to random drug and alcohol testing.
Why This Role Matters
This position will help Chesterfield County build on its existing strengths in budgeting, planning, and management by expanding the County’s ability to use performance information consistently and practically.
Shift
Monday - Friday; 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Work Location
Budget & Management
Chesterfield County is an Equal Opportunity Employer Committed to Workforce Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion