Job details
Job reference: VAC008464
Date posted: 24/06/2026
Application closing date: 20/07/2026
Location: City Hall College Green, City Centre Bristol, BS1 5TR
Salary: BG10: £35,412 - £39,152
Package: Blank
Contract: Full time (37 hours)
Job category/type: Education
Attachments: Job Description.pdf, Person Specification.pdf
About the role
This key role supports both operational delivery and strategic oversight within the IncludEd service, providing high‑quality data and financial insight.
You will work alongside service managers, Senior Inclusion and Commissioning Officers, and locality teams to ensure decisions are informed, evidence‑based, and financially sustainable.
What you’ll be doing
- Develop and maintain robust data systems and reporting, covering areas including exclusions and inclusion pathways, alternative provision placement and outcomes, and insight into patterns of demand and emerging risk.
- Monitor and track alternative provision and high needs block spend, ensuring transparency and control.
- Work with operational teams to ensure data underpins decision‑making and case oversight.
- Support the development of performance reporting and service improvement activity.
- Strengthen auditability and accountability, ensuring clear records of decisions, placements and outcomes.
- Contribute to a more coherent, joined‑up system view across services.
About you
- Has experience in data analysis and/or financial monitoring, ideally within a public sector or education context.
- Can interpret complex information and present it clearly to support decision‑making and service improvement.
- Has, or is willing to develop knowledge of, education systems, SEND and inclusion, and attendance and exclusion pressures.
- Has strong organisational skills with attention to detail and accuracy.
- Can work collaboratively across teams, supporting data‑informed practice.
- Demonstrates an ability to identify issues, trends and solutions.
About the IncludEd Service
- Feel a sense of belonging in education.
- Are supported early to meet their needs.
- Avoid unnecessary escalation into exclusion or alternative provision.
What we offer
- A key role in shaping a forward‑thinking and evolving service.
- Opportunity to influence how data and finance drive real system change.
- Collaborative and supportive working environment.
- Professional development in a service focused on innovation and impact.
The role is primarily office‑based, with some flexibility for hybrid working depending on service needs.
Please note that this role is subject to a Basic DBS Check.
We are a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.
Bristol City Council strives to have a workforce that reflects the communities it serves; we are therefore committed to ensuring diversity in our hiring process. We welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. Appointments will be made on merit.
