Job Role: Data & Analytics Lead, East Midlands Regional Care Cooperative (RCC)
Salary & Benefits: £55,000–£65,000 a year, 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, generous pension scheme, hybrid working arrangements. Secondment arrangements may differ.
Contract type: Fixed-term contract or secondment opportunity until 31st March 2028, with continuation subject to funding and approval.
Basis: Full time (37.5 hours)
Employment location: The role will be based in Leicester, with hybrid working and regular travel across the East Midlands.
Role Overview
What if your expertise in data and analytics could help shape better futures for children and youngpeople across an entire region?
The East Midlands Regional Care Cooperative (RCC) is bringing together ten local authorities with ashared ambition: to improve how we understand, plan and commission care for children and young people,ensuring the right support is available in the right place, at the right time.
Now is an exciting time to join us.
With our core team now in place, we’re entering an important new phase – turning our sharedambition into action. We’re looking for a talented and enthusiastic Data & Analytics Lead tojoin our founding team and play a key role in shaping how we use data, intelligence and insight todrive meaningful change.
This is more than an opportunity to take on a new role. It’s a chance to help build something fromthe ground up, work alongside colleagues from across the region and develop your experience in acollaborative, innovative and high-profile programme.
As part of our founding team, you’ll have the opportunity to shape our approach to regionalintelligence, develop new ways of understanding demand and sufficiency, and ensure that data is at theheart of our decisions. We’re looking for someone who is curious, collaborative and excited by thepossibilities of data – someone who wants to bring fresh thinking, develop their skills and help uscreate something that will have a lasting impact.
What makes this opportunity special?
- Be part of something new: Join the founding team of a Regional Care Cooperative and help shape how it develops.
- Make a difference at scale: Use your analytical expertise to influence planning and decision-making across the East Midlands region.
- Develop your career: Gain valuable experience of regional working, strategic partnerships and system-wide transformation.
- See the impact of your work: Help turn complex data into meaningful intelligence that supports better care and outcomes for children and young people.
Successful applicants contacted: By Friday 27th November
Interviews held: Wednesday 2nd December, Leicester City Centre
All applications will be acknowledged via email within 48 hours of receipt. If you have not receivedconfirmation within this time, please call 0116 299 5942.
Data & Analytics Lead in Leicester employer: SDSA
As a not-for-profit organisation, SDSA offers a unique opportunity to lead transformative change in children's services across the East Midlands. With a strong commitment to employee development, generous benefits including 27 days of annual leave and a robust pension scheme, and a collaborative work culture that values innovation and partnership, SDSA is an excellent employer for those looking to make a meaningful impact in their community. The hybrid working arrangements and the chance to shape the future of regional care make this role particularly rewarding.
