Performance Data Officer in Rochdale

Are you passionate about making a difference to others? Do you want to join a friendly, hard working and flexible team and are you up for a new and exciting challenge? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Welcome to Governance and Business Support (GBS), part of Rochdale’s Adult Care Services. It’s an exciting time across Adult Care Services, as we embark and continue on our change and transformation journey to truly make a difference to the lives of our residents. We are a friendly and dynamic team, which takes pride in everything we do to ensure our services continue to be of an excellent and high quality standard. Our workforce is our biggest asset and we are looking for amazing people who share our vision and values to join our team.

The role of Performance Data Officer is an exciting opportunity and we are looking for the right candidate who will be key in developing, analysing, interrogating and disseminating datasets and related research relevant to the service and providing recommendations and benchmarking information. This is a critical role in the development of effective high-quality data and analytics for the service from writing system reports to presenting user friendly dashboards to demonstrate performance activity which will support the service with key decision making.

This role supports continuous improvement of the service through the provision of performance information and analysis, reports and data dashboards. You will play a significant role in designing and developing a suite of reporting outputs including Power BI dashboards to support all levels of the business, supply timely insight into its activities and show initiative and curiosity in identifying issues and solutions.

You will need experience and skills in SQL and Power BI along with subject knowledge, ability and positive attitude along with strong analytical and problem solving skills and experience developing data products, dashboards and reports that provide key detail and insight into the service.

What we’re looking for:

• Eye for detail, with an advanced degree of quality control
• An attitude and persona that is able to motivate self and others you work with along with great team working skills
• Excellent organisational skills and an ability to plan and deliver timely outputs whilst dealing with deadlines with multiple tasks and queries
• Excellent communication skills and able to work and build productive relationships with a wide range of people in Adult Care as well as within partner organisations
• Able to confidently use complex and multiple large databases, analyse and present information and recommendations accurately and effectively
• Experience of extracting, cleansing and manipulating multiple and large datasets, SQL report writing and building Power BI intelligence dashboards
• Be passionate about using data and analytics to make a positive impact on people’s lives, supporting others to improve and interpret data
• Be a flexible self-starter with an enthusiasm for tackling and finding solutions to problems
• Advanced level of computer literacy including MS Office particularly Excel and Power BI
• Logical and creative thinker with a willingness to learn
• Tenacity, patience and determination to continue when things are challenging including multi-tasking and working at pace

Why us?

Here in Governance and Business Support (GBS), we are the ‘engine room’ of Adult Care and play an essential role in making sure the department runs and operates effectively and efficiently at all times. We are a friendly and dynamic team, which takes pride in everything we do to ensure our services continue to be of an excellent and high quality standard.

Reasons to join our team - from our staff!

• “We have real caring and committed staff”
• “It is an open environment to share ideas”
• “The sense of team spirit is a great motivator”

You will get real job satisfaction and will be supported by our amazing staff team.

Benefits include:

• Salary & Progression: We offer a competitive starting salary and annual incremental progression until top of grade.
• Flexible working arrangements: We offer a hybrid working model which allows our staff to work flexibly, with a combination of home and office working.
• Working environment: You will be based in the modern and vibrant Number One Riverside, located in the heart of Rochdale, and adjacent to the new Riverside Retail development.
• Leave Entitlement: You will be offered a generous holiday allowance of 26 days per annum plus bank holidays. In addition, our employees' annual leave entitlement will increase by an additional 5 days after five years’ service.
• Work Life Balance Scheme: We also offer a flexible work life balance scheme which allows you to accrue hours and take up to an additional 12 days off each year, without impacting on your annual leave entitlement.
• Training & Development: We are invested in our staff and encourage your continued professional development with a range of opportunities and training on offer.
• Travel & Accessibility: We are located and easily accessible to nearby transport links to make it easier to travel via metro link, bus and train.
• Pension: You will have access to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).

The successful candidate must be able to work and attend meetings and other events during the evening and occasionally at weekends, as per the needs of the service. Interviews and assessments will be held week commencing 21st September 2026. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role at this stage.