At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage research databases, clean data, and produce analytical reports using Excel and Power BI.
- Company: Public sector organisation in Edinburgh with a focus on impactful research.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, hybrid work model, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Join a supportive team and enjoy a dynamic work environment.
- Why this job: Make a difference by analysing data that influences important research outcomes.
- Qualifications: Advanced Excel skills, experience with Power BI, SQL, R, and Python required.
The predicted salary is between 31500 - 38500 £ per year.
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Research Officer (Data Analyst) for a 23 month contract on a rate of £194.38/day (Outside IR35). This role will be hybrid based with up to 2 days a week working from home.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the day-to-day management of the research databases and relationships between these;
- Carry out cleaning and querying of data and maintaining Excel workbooks used for these tasks;
- Manipulate data using tools such as Excel and Power BI to produce analytical data reports;
- Carry out analysis of information gathered by the organisation for research purposes, and be able to communicate findings to a variety of stakeholders in sensitive, compelling, and creative ways;
- Take ownership for your own projects’ objectives and targets;
- Support with copy-editing and proofreading reports, ensuring consistency and accuracy within and across outputs, both in terms of their content and format;
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, establishing effective working relationships with colleagues;
- Where required, support other tasks within the Policy and Research Team.
Essential Skills:
- Advanced use of MS Excel, including experience using Power Query and Macros.
- Experience of MS packages, including Access and Power BI, and programming languages used in data manipulation and analysis such as SQL, R and Python.
- Experience of gathering, managing, manipulating and analysing complex and sensitive data for research purposes.
- Experience working on complex, large-scale research projects and datasets.
- A strong commitment to quality and meticulous attention to detail.
- Proven experience of working to tight timescales, and able to prioritise tasks according to project development stages.
- Experience of working independently, as well as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Highly organised and efficient.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills and command of English grammar and usage.
- Personal resilience and the ability to deal with what can be a distressing subject matter.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Data Analyst (Research) in Edinburgh employer: Venesky Brown
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