Data and Intelligence Analyst London, 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.
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The Role:
As a Data and Intelligence Analyst you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster’s success. Providing expert support to the Strategy and Intelligence team, you’ll ensure we’re able to analyse, develop options, monitor and report progress towards organisational and city-wide goals as part of our Fairer Westminster strategy. Amongst other things, this strategy aims to tackle climate change, regenerate Oxford Street and integrate smart technology into residents’ homes to support social care delivery. The team develops the business intelligence, insight and analysis that informs and drives strategy and policy development, and also supports the Council’s overarching performance and risk management.
Offering analytical support to policy and service delivery projects, you’ll collaborate with colleagues to define problems and deliver high quality analysis to help solve them. Providing superb desk research by reviewing and analysing key data and insights for specific projects, you’ll then use your findings to make recommendations for further actions. You’ll also produce high quality reports, presentations, charts and dashboards, and manage a portfolio of projects across a range of different topics, prioritising the work and responding to any ad hoc requests.
But your work won’t stop here – we’ll expect you to take responsibility for analytical expertise on various topics, and act as the lead contact for colleagues across our organisation on these subjects. You’ll also support the Council’s analytical profession by playing an active role in relevant networks and supporting your colleagues’ development of basic analytical understanding, and keep up to speed with the latest industry techniques and developments.
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About You:
With a degree in a subject such as statistics, economics, data analysis, data science, mathematics, social sciences or geography, or equivalent analytical skills acquired through work-based experience or professional qualifications, you’ll have practical experience of working in an analytical field. We’d prefer you to have well developed experience of working with geo-spatial analysis software, and practical knowledge of applying analytical concepts and techniques to deliver workable solutions to problems.
You should possess a good understanding of relevant data tools and systems, be capable of managing multiple projects, and delivering high quality outputs on time. Ready to work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders, including non-analytical experts and senior colleagues, your communication and interpersonal skills will allow you to use a range of styles and techniques to communicate complex analytical insights to different audiences.
A proficient user of Microsoft Office, including advanced Excel skills, GIS mapping and PowerBI, you’ll have extensive knowledge of analytical concepts, with the skills to analyse and interpret complex datasets. It’s important that you have the ability to think strategically about problems and apply this to analytical approaches, and be able to communicate complex concepts and findings. You’ll also possess strong organisational skills – with this in mind you’ll be able to understand and take account of different objectives, legal issues and political sensitivities when presenting the results of analysis.
What We Offer:
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 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.
