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The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) is a world leading hydrographic agency that has been helping people safely navigate the oceans for over 200 years. Over the next few months, the UKHO will be building a data analytics team to answer key business questions to ensure we keep serving our stakeholders and customers into the future. These might be questions about our customers and their needs, the way we make our products, or insights into our data sources. This is an exciting opportunity for collaborative and inquisitive people to have an impact on how we function and gain experience in a thriving field.

As a Junior Data Analyst you will be encouraged to get familiar with all aspects of data analysis, for example data gathering, transformation and visualisation. Supported by more senior members of the team, you will work together with stakeholders, data scientists and data engineers to deliver insights in either ad-hoc analyses or using dashboards. There will be opportunities for learning and growth within a friendly team environment.

As this is a developmental role, and you will be supported in your progression to a Data Analyst role (with a salary of £34,369 per annum), this is expected to take six months to two years depending on performance.

We will be running a virtual drop-in session where you can find out more about the opportunity. Please click on the hyper-link to register for our Open Session, taking place on Wednesday 12 April at 12 noon. Some of our team will be present to help you to learn more about the roles, the work, and the benefits we can offer.

• Working with stakeholders and senior members of the team to outline how business questions might be answered with data
• Gathering data from a variety of sources, including databases (SQL), APIs, files
• Comparing results of various statistical analyses of data
• Selecting most appropriate analytical methods with respect to business question
• Connecting data into dashboards or other means of sharing results

Working with stakeholders and senior members of the team to visualise data

Hybrid Working Expectations

The team are flexible where they work with some members coming into the office more than others. There are no fixed days in the office.

Please note that we will only score against the sift and interview criteria and not the essential and desirable information below.

• Enjoys working collaboratively to answer questions and solve problems
• Knowledge of different data types and relevant data quality issues, e.g. time series, categorical
• Experience with statistical analysis and assessing their results
• Experience of using business intelligence tools or a programming language
• Familiar with good data visualisation practises
• Desire to learn and develop towards the next grade

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Working Together
• Changing and Improving

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Working Together

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Statistical analysis (assessed by test)
• Data visualisation (assessed by test)

At the UK Hydrographic Office, it's very important to us that our people feel valued.

We offer a huge range of benefits such as training and development, well-being support, flexible/ homeworking, a fantastic state of the art building, high spec equipment, and so much more.

See our attached Candidate Pack for more details.

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