Capabilities and Insights Analyst - State and Local

You’ll work in our San Jose, Costa Rica office as part of a research team that focuses on US and Canadian state and local public sector research and analytics. The group is comprised of about 12 analysts who have previous work experience in state and local public sector organizations and expertise in using US public data and economic data to analyze regional economics and labor markets.

The team is one subset of a larger team focused on local market insights across all the Americas. You will also work closely with leading thinkers in McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), and McKinsey’s Public Sector Practice leadership team as part of McKinsey’s Global Client Capabilities Network (CCN), which includes more than 4000 diverse professionals delivering distinctive client impact and fueled by a culture of innovation.

You will support our public sector clients with research and analytics – sometimes by answering one-off questions, other times by developing and conducting bespoke analyses to use with clients in specific projects. Common topics include job creation and economic growth, state budgets and procurement, labor market analysis, and innovation hubs. You will use a combination of public data (e.g., the Census, the BLS) and private data (e.g., Moody’s Analytics, EMSI) in this work.

For examples, working with a state economic development organization to analyze which subsectors are most likely to drive growth, and then developing possible actions and interventions to support those sectors, also building case studies of innovation hubs to help a local nonprofit kickstart their idea to build a hub focused on climate change. You can also work with a state government to analyze the ROI of business attraction incentives to make sure they are deployed efficiently and in-line with peer programs or projecting and analyzing future employment demand to help a university revamp their curriculum to ensure their grads can find work in in-demand occupations.

In addition to serving clients, you will also contribute to McKinsey’s knowledge base on these topics. We are constantly investing in knowledge development to ensure we bring best in class approaches and resources to our clients. You will spend some portion of your time building our team’s knowledge, for example, in the form of codified expertise, standardized approaches to recurring questions, or Excel/Tableau-based analytics tools.

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