Business Intelligence Analyst (Children & Families)

About Us and the Role

Warwickshire County Council’s Business Intelligence service ensures that insight and evidence remain at the heart of the council’s decision-making and are used to drive improvements that make a meaningful difference to Warwickshire’s people and communities. Our roles involve critical thinking, problem solving, creativity – innovation is encouraged.

The Business Intelligence service works across and supports most areas of work within Warwickshire County Council. We have teams that focus on specific service areas, for example, education, community safety, population health, children and families or adult social care. We also have teams that are cross-cutting supporting performance and quality, data management, strategy and engagement.

You will have access to the technology and the data you’ll need to do the best job possible; we use the Microsoft suite of tools and subscribe to a number of datasets that allow us to provide the insight required to support evidence-based practice. Training is provided where necessary and proactive learning and development positively encouraged.

You will also have flexibility around where and when you work, including time at our Shire Hall offices in the heart of Warwick. These offices have recently been reconfigured to allow both face-to-face collaboration and virtual working, providing an excellent working environment.

Working for the Business Intelligence Service you’ll be part of a friendly and supportive team who look out for each other, we’ll give you the support and encouragement you need to succeed and help others around you – because we know a job done well, is a job done together.

So, if you’re someone who is prepared to get stuck in, who wants to do the best job possible, who approaches everything with passion and purpose, then we want you to work for us. You’ll be able to apply your knowledge and abilities in a place that matters to people and communities. And simply put, you’ll enjoy working here because of that.

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced analyst to join our team on a fixed term basis. You will focus on providing accurate, timely, easily understandable business and commissioning information, covering all aspects of children's social care and early help, producing management and monitoring reports for a variety of audiences. You will be involved with, and on occasions lead, the delivery of statutory data collections, recording and reporting arrangements to support senior managers and their teams as well as undertake data modelling and design activity to ensure timely access to business and commissioning intelligence. You will draw upon your analytical skills, application of different software packages and experience of producing and manipulating complex data sets to develop informative reports and recommendations for senior managers. This role is fundamental to ensure that senior management and commissioners have the best intelligence available to them to support decision making and service delivery, allowing the effective targeting of resources within a challenging financial environment.

Key Requirements: Demonstrable experience working with Microsoft Power BI, DAX and SQL. Knowledge of children's social care services would also clearly be an advantage to this role but not essential. For further information please see the attached Job Description & Person Specification.

For the full Job Description and Person Specification please click the link here.

This organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

These are the benefits we offer including agile working, enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, and a generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas.

Additional Information

For further information about the role please contact Jamie Wait

Email: jamiewait@warwickshire.gov.uk

Closing Date: Monday, 27th February 2023

Interview Date: W/C 13th March 2023

To apply for this vacancy please click on the 'Apply' button.

Our method of application is online, please note, CV’s should not been submitted unless asked to do so.

If you are unable to apply using the 'Apply' button please contact the Recruitment Centre on hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk including your contact details and any relevant screenshots.

You will be notified of our shortlisting decision via email, so please check your email on a regular basis after submitting your application.

As part of being a Disability Confident employer we guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you must provide us with evidence in your application form which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required for each competence, as well as meeting any of the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential in the person specification.

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.

Warwickshire County Council (WCC) is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce, this is because we really understand the importance of different voices, experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds within our workforce. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups. WCC has a number of staff network groups which provide peer support and safe spaces for employees who hold these and other identities. See more.