Analyst in Papworth Everard

Our benefits include a comprehensive wellbeing package covering all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family. You can buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme and take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances. We offer the option to make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings. There are development opportunities, apprenticeships, and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth. Paid volunteering hours each year allow you to 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 is available, along with opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards. An Our Cambs Rewards account gives you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes.

About the role: We are looking to recruit an Analyst to join the Corporate Insight team within the Policy, Performance and Intelligence service to help deliver high-quality analysis, research, and intelligence that supports decision-making across Cambridgeshire County Council. The team provides specialist analytical support across a range of corporate functions, with particular responsibility for workforce insight, customer feedback reporting, consultation and engagement analysis, and the management of strategic intelligence resources. We work with services across the Council to help them better understand the needs, experiences, and outcomes of residents, customers, and employees. The successful candidate will play an important role in transforming data into meaningful insight, helping colleagues use evidence to improve services and inform policy and strategy development. The role also supports the ongoing development and management of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Insight platform and the use of key corporate datasets, including ACORN segmentation data.

We are a family-friendly employer and will be happy to negotiate on working arrangements to achieve a good work/life balance. The role is available on a permanent basis 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 an Analyst, you will be responsible for providing data, insight, and analysis to the service. Your role will include:

• Analysing data and producing insight reports and benchmarking information
• Extracting and cleaning data and combining it with other datasets
• Working on projects to provide robust, timely, and accurate analysis
• Working closely with the services and partners to understand their needs
• 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 about 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 analytical 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 analysing a range of data and producing outputs for wider use, 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.

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.

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 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.

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