Data and Intelligence Analyst City of Westminster, England
Job description
About Us:
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
Innovation and Change in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where people use their vision and commitment to open doors for the next generations.
Nothing beats the feeling of helping someone find their passion.
At Westminster City Council, our City Lions team helps young local people engage with culture, creativity and dreams. When they came across a lonely, isolated 16-year-old who called himself a failure, they knew what to do. They worked 1-2-1 to find the thing this boy really loved. YouTube, it turned out. But it’s impossible to turn that into a career, right? Wrong. A week later, he was enrolled on the British Film Institute film-making programme. It was the ultimate light-bulb moment. And it turned him into what he is today – a budding Spielberg with a world of opportunity at his feet.
Please view the extraordinary story of the Impossible Dream here.
The Role:
As a Data and Insight Analyst you can make your own powerful contribution. Joining our Strategy and Intelligence team, you’ll focus mainly on climate change projects that help monitor our progress towards carbon targets, and provide us with options and strategies to accelerate our efforts.
There’ll be a mix of desk research and creative analyses, where you solve complex problems and apply a range of tools and techniques to arrive at key insights.
You’ll then produce a range of written and visual materials – from reports and presentations to charts and dashboards – that guide our policies and decisions.
It’s a complex challenge. One that involves close collaboration with our Climate Emergency Team, together with others across the Council and potentially further afield. The pace will be fast too: you’ll need to balance quick immediate projects with longer-term strategic work.
For a passionate research analyst, there’s also the draw of developing your knowledge of climate change. Plus, you’ll tackle some of the biggest environmental issues of our time.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information.
About You:
With a relevant statistics, economics, data science, mathematics, social sciences or geography degree (or equivalent experience); you’ll have a strong background in analysis.
Well-used to applying a range of concepts and techniques, you’ll enjoy the challenge of manging multiple projects with a range of stakeholders, including non-analytical experts and senior colleagues.
An appreciation of societal context and big picture thinking will also be key. Equally, it’s vital you’ve an endless curiosity, and the communication skills to ask the right questions and share your insights.
What We Offer:
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to over 250,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties
As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
