Job Description

Corporate Services

Senior Information Analyst - Fixed term until 31/10/2025
Waverley Court

Salary: £36,312 - £42,717 per year
Hours: 36 per week

To provide high quality data analysis for the Council. This post will primarily support management and operational teams by interrogating data to provide strategic insight, drive progress and evidence achievement. You will use your skills in data analysis to provide a professional advice and support service for team members, colleagues and stakeholders. This will involve the development of Power BI Service within the Council, as well as a range of existing BI applications to provide high quality data analytics to improve services, reflecting the needs of colleagues, communities and stakeholders.

The What - Major Tasks/Job activities

• Prepare, analyse and report high quality data, providing robust insight to support evidence-based decision making in our operational teams.
• Responsible for engagement with end users to determine requirements for data, analysis, reports and products, and support the delivery of such.
• Analyse and interpret information, identifying trends, highlighting issues and making recommendations for improvement in order to provide strategic insight, drive progress and evidence achievement.
• Provide professional statistical advice on data and analytical
• Produce detailed summaries of service performance utilising large datasets and robust statistical methods and techniques, exploring alternative solutions and more innovative complex analyses.
• Utilise existing and new information management tools, preparing reports and statistics for management and outside agencies using for example but not limited to Power BI, Excel, Business Objects and similar analytical tools as required.
• Support the development of enterprise Power BI within the Council including the administration of Power BI Service and the application of appropriate governance and technical processes.
• Responsible for presenting the findings of data analysis, utilising appropriate methods, including infographics and other data visualisation, to generate insights in an easy-to-understand format, ensuring that complex statistics are explained to non-statistical professionals in an understandable way to allow informed decision making.
• The consequences of decisions taken regarding data analysis and interpretation, will vary depending on the impact on Council outcomes, but are likely to be significant.
• Investigate data collection problems and take appropriate action to ensure the integrity of information processing is maintained, including communication with appropriate stakeholders to ensure data collected reflects the information needs of customers and current Council initiatives.
• Contribute to the evaluation and development of key datasets and information systems used in the Council, including identifying ways to improve existing systems in terms of quality, timeliness and reliability of data.

Requirements

• Contribute to the quality assurance process and timetables for key data information within statistical
• Develop effective working relationships across the Council at executive, senior management and operational level to ensure that all data intelligence solutions and projects are aligned.
• Required to manage conflict, for example when challenging areas of underperformance and making recommendations on evidence-based decision making.
• Work within a team to support the information needs of Council, undertaking supervision of project staff as required and deputising for senior staff where appropriate.
• Contribute to management of Performance and Evaluation service via team meetings, monitoring and prioritising current work and reassessing where applicable, managing customer expectations and conflicting priorities; and negotiating with senior colleagues. The post-holder will be expected to contribute to team and departmental working groups, including those advising on best practice (e.g. procedures for handling information requests) and staff development.
• Undertake projects on a corporate basis within the Council.
• Keep up to date and comply with all data protection law in the processing of personal and special categories of personal data, in line with the Council’s privacy statement and service privacy notices.

Environment (Work Demands, physical demands, working conditions, work context)The post will work autonomously with minimal supervision. Requires frequent analysis and interpretation of multipart facts or situations, particularly in trend analysis, utilising specialist knowledge of data, definitions, quality/standards and processes, e.g. the post holder must exercise judgement and determine the most appropriate format the information analysed takes. The post holder will make specific recommendations to senior management teams and practitioners e.g. on use of various sources of information, on the results of detailed analysis and on improving data collection and audit.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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