Senior Insight Analyst

The Senior Insight Analyst (Intelligence) will work collaboratively across the Council and with partners to ensure delivery of a broad range of reporting, service intelligence and data analysis to inform evidence led decision making and policy formation.

As a Senior Insight Analyst (Intelligence) you will lead a work area and team of analysts to provide robust, timely and accurate analysis, insight, reports, dashboards, scorecards, and benchmarking information. You will also be accountable for the delivery of key statutory and regulatory data returns. You will support and lead on projects as required to make sense of data, produce high quality analysis and quality assure others’ work, and think strategically about how the Council can use it.

A large part of the role involves designing and overseeing the extraction and combining of large operational datasets, transforming the data to ensure it is maintained in an accessible format which allows oversight of day-to-day service management, and develop visualisations to enable analysis. Therefore, the post holder needs to have a proven technical knowledge and intellectual curiosity to explore complex datasets to demonstrate a solution-focused approach to problem solving in real time.

Working collaboratively across the Council and strategically with partners, there will be a need for this role to be able to interpret requirements, plan the best approach to synthesis and analyse data, before then producing the results in an appropriate reporting style which responds to the purpose, audience and how the insight produced can best be used.

This role will work with members, colleagues and partners to influence and support high-quality, evidence led policy development, planning, decision-making and performance improvement, and be a key contact for professional expertise and leadership in a specialist area. You will be responsible for communicating information to a wide range of audiences to provide accessible data analysis and reporting to inform performance improvement and priority planning

Expert knowledge and experience of a relevant subject matter or analytical techniques.

• High level of competence in nationally recognised data visualisation software e.g. PowerBI, etc.

• Working knowledge of a relevant coding language e.g. SQL, Python, R, etc.

• Excellent analytical skills, ability to gather information from a wide range of sources and analyse thoroughly and make recommendations that inform decision making.

• Comfortable with considerable amounts of data and operating within a very complex and varied environment.

• Able to communicate data, information and knowledge in a variety of forms to a range of audiences and ability to present with confidence.

• Ability to draw out conclusions and make decisions or recommendations based upon the interrogation of data and information.

• Ability to work flexibly and adapt to changes in demand at short notice.

• Able to demonstrate effective team working.

• Influence best practice in the work of team, contractors, partners and self.

• High standards of literacy and numeracy, including completing accurate and appropriate arithmetic and statistical calculations.

• Organised, analytical, and accurate with good attention to detail.

• Flexibility to readily assist/ support where required.

• Ability to deliver high quality formal reports and presentations within tight timelines.

• Ability to exercise judgement as to the robustness of various data sources and as to the most appropriate analytical methods to use.

Understanding of the decision making and governance arrangements within local authorities

Required skills – Must have Power BI and Education SEND expereince. 
Using power BI for special educational needs to build dash boards.