Trafford Council
Trafford Town Hall, Talbot Road, Stretford, Manchester, M32 0TH
Salary – £32,909 – 42,513 per annum
Salary Grade – Career Grade 7-9 depending on experience and skills
Working Pattern – Hybrid - Trafford Town Hall & Home Working
Working hours – 36.25 Hours per week
Contract type – Permanent and fixed term various lengths – 12 months, 2 years
Closing date – 28th February 2023
Interview date – Week commencing 13th March 2023
About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity in our Insights and Intelligence service for Business Intelligence Analysts to join us at a pivotal time for the service. Due to unprecedented demand for data analytics, we have the opportunity for 4 analysts to join us to support on our current projects and help improve lives of residents living in Trafford.
Some of our current key reporting that you would be involved in includes education services, social care, adult social care such as understanding services required for people who are discharged from hospital and identifying families in need of early help and support. The work we do helps in understanding and supporting our borough.
The Insights and Intelligence Team are on an exciting journey to transform the Councils data. We are currently developing a Microsoft Azure Data Lake and migrating to Power BI reporting across the business. We are seeking individuals who are keen to expand their skills and knowledge and really make a difference for the people of Trafford.
About you
Key duties for this role include:
- Support the delivery of a high-quality data, intelligence and analytical offer to the Council to enable evidence and insight-led decision making
- Reporting across Education, Children’s, and Adult’s Social Care.
- Provide high level technical expertise to support the overall development, design and maintenance of the council’s data
- Develop business intelligence reports and dashboards - including interactive business intelligence reports and strategic management reports.
You will have:
- Experience of analysing and interpreting large, complex data sets
- Experience of pulling together data sources from a variety of different systems and engaging with a variety of stakeholders to gain domain understanding
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present analysis clearly, through visualisations, written reports, or oral presentations
- Experience of data manipulation using a variety of software tools such as Power BI and experience with programming languages such as SQL and R.
- Experience of working as part of a team and liaising with internal departments and external bodies
- A passion for data and aptitude in supporting processes to improve data quality
- Ability to quickly analyse problems and find appropriate and timely solutions
- Ability to work as a team and on own initiative, determine priorities and meet important deadlines over the short, medium and long term
COUNCIL DETAILS
About us
Trafford Council and its partners in the public, private and third sectors are embarking on a Vision which sees us working together to close inequality gaps and maximise Trafford’s huge potential.
Our vision: Trafford – where all our residents, businesses and communities prosper
Trafford really is a great place to work. We’re keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We recognise that having a diverse workforce is essential to bringing fresh ideas and perspectives to our Council, so we particularly welcome applications from minority, marginalised and diverse groups, and we in turn promise a fair and unbiased recruitment process.
Trafford’s Insight and Intelligence Service aims to build data analytics and insights to empower service users to make data-driven decisions with maximum efficiency. Access to good quality data enables reliable insights to form the basis of decision-making and strategy that meets users’ needs even as they change over time. Effective data sharing across Trafford should result in delivering efficient, responsive services; meeting the changing needs of citizens and support delivery of our corporate priorities.
The Trafford Data Lab is our key part of the Insights and Intelligence Service. The Trafford Data Lab supports decision-making in Trafford by revealing patterns in data through visualisation. We are committed to publishing open data and using open-source tools to encourage a transparent and reproducible analytical workflow.
For an informal chat about the role, please contact Sarah Haugeberg at
[email protected].
About the benefits
You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged. You will have the opportunity to work and grow in a people-centred and values based organisation that promotes a positive permission culture. Your opinions matter so you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things here at Trafford.
Trafford recognises the importance of staff wellbeing and offer a number of initiatives for staff including mindfulness, mental health first aiders, running & walking groups and health and wellbeing events.
Our great benefits include:
Pension
Home Technology Scheme
Car Lease Scheme
Cycle to Work scheme
Simply Healthcare
Employee Discount Scheme - 'Perks at Work'
The Council needs to hold and process information about employees, workers and other individuals as appropriate, for various reasons. With the General Data Protection Regulations coming into force we have in place a new privacy notice for staff, contractors, volunteers, trainees, those on work experience and job applicants.
http://www.trafford.gov.uk/about-your-council/data-protection/privacy-notices/Service-Level-Privacy-Notices/Recruitment-Employment-Privacy-Notice.aspx