Senior Analyst in Papworth Everard

We are looking to recruit 2 Senior Analysts to join the Policy, Performance and Intelligence service. We want you to play an important role in ensuring the council can harness the potential of data, using evidence and best practice to support and inform the development of policy, strategy, plans and budgets, and in turn deliver the Corporate Strategy for Cambridgeshire County Council. The roles will work to support the operational management and strategic planning of services.

The roles we are recruiting to are:

• Senior Analyst (Population and Engagement Insight) - this role will be employed on a permanent basis. The role will sit within the Corporate Insight team and responsibilities will include supporting the HR service, leading on Consultation and Engagement support, managing Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Insight, taking responsibility for other relevant corporate datasets and supporting the creation and implementation of the councils DDAT strategy.
• Senior Analyst (Families First) - this role will be employed on a fixed term basis of 2 years. In November 2024, the Department for Education published the policy statement 'Keeping Children Safe, Helping Families Thrive: Breaking down the barriers to opportunity', outlining the vision and core legislative proposals for children's social care. This followed the December 2023 National Framework for Children's Social Care, which detailed the vision for the system and desired outcomes. Following the launch, we are building additional local capacity to drive forward these changes to ensure that children and families in our local area benefit from earlier help and stronger support. This is an exciting time of change and a unique opportunity to play a key role in shaping one of the most significant national shifts in children's social care in recent decades. The Families First Partnership programme has been established to support reforms, aiming to take a whole-system approach to rebalancing children's social care towards early intervention. The demand for our services has never been greater. With budgets of millions of pounds that impact on thousands of vulnerable people every year, services rely upon the analysis, information and advice provided by our team to make informed decisions - so you'll really have a chance to make a difference.

The roles will sit within Cambridgeshire County Council's newly formed Policy, Performance & Intelligence service. A team of 50 individuals who provide data, analysis insight and policy expertise to support the operational management and strategic planning of services.

We are a family-friendly employer and will be happy to negotiate on working arrangements to achieve a good work / life balance. The two roles are offered with the option of flexibility on working hours.

Please refer to the person specification when completing your supporting statement, as applications will be shortlisted against the required experience, knowledge, and skills of the role.

What will you be doing?

As a Senior Analyst, you will be responsible for providing data, insight and analysis to the service. Your role will include:

• Leading projects to provide robust, timely and accurate analysis
• Working closely with the relevant services to understand their needs and respond to requests
• Developing in-depth knowledge of the services you support, their policies and practice as well as the underlying Management Information systems that they use
• Leading on the provision of insight reports and benchmarking information
• Working with key stakeholders to plan and prioritise work
• Presenting analysis, insights and findings to a variety of stakeholders
• Visualising data to help non-data users to understand key insights

About you

Can you help data make a difference? Are you ambitious, innovative, good with data and passionate with an enthusiasm for supporting evidence led decision making? If so, we may have the role you've been searching for. We are looking for an individual with strong technical skills, who has a sound understanding of a range of data sources and can practically apply those skills to embed new data solutions. You will have experience of leading projects and supporting others, as well as excellent organisational skills. Good communication skills, both oral and written, are essential for this role, as the post holder will be required to present complex and sometimes technical information in appropriate forms for a wide range of internal and external audiences. You will have relevant previous experience in a similar field. A high level of competence with Power BI, data analysis, and specialist data analytical software are also desirable. The successful applicant will be well supported to further develop their subject knowledge and technical skillset.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage:

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes. Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do. We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

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