Please note that due to the volume of applications received for this vacancy the closing date is now 4/5/2024.

Are you curious and do you always ask why? Do you like to find meaning in data? If you’re excited by the possibilities of using data and intelligence to improve outcomes for children and families, we’d love to hear from you!  

In the Intelligence, Performance and Engagement team we support teams across Children & Families services.  We bring together the voice of families, qualitative information and performance data to help our services celebrate their successes and identify areas of improvement. We cover a wide range of areas from early help to social work, education, and youth offending. 

We pride ourselves in the support we give each other and the opportunities that this creates for development and progression within our team and across the County Council. We work together to innovate and improve using a high support, high challenge approach.  We know that we can have the most impact working together as a team. 

The purpose of these roles is to provide additional project work capacity to the team, alongside an ongoing review to realign the job descriptions and ways of working of the wider team

In this role you’ll be manipulating, analysing and presenting complex data that will support our teams in Children & Families in using data to make decisions, performance manage and achieve the best outcomes for children and families in Staffordshire.

You will support the business to understand the data by telling a story with the insights you uncover. You will prepare analysis reports by extracting data from various systems, this could be using Excel, Power BI or other tools, that help the system to learn, improve and celebrate our good practice.

You will be scoping and designing Power BI Reports as well as supporting our services to understand data and use this information in their day to day work.

The role will require you to prepare data in line with legislative guidance, to support the submission of our statutory returns. Monitoring and highlighting data quality issues and working with our services to find ways to improve the quality of our data.

We would really love to meet someone who is passionate about using data to improve outcomes for families and can share their enthusiasm with others. It is always great to see someone who has a curious nature and a good eye for detail. Being solution-focussed is a key part of our role.

You will be a great communicator with excellent interpersonal skills.  You will be able to build positive relationships with key stakeholders and support them to translate service information into meaningful insights that show impact.

You will need to be experienced in data analysis with good technical skills and a strong grasp of MS Office applications, in particular advanced use of Microsoft Excel and data visualisation tools such as Power BI. You should be able to manipulate multiple complex datasets to produce meaningful intelligence.

As an independent learner you will be motivated to research problems and further develop your skills and knowledge.

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 15 May 2024

We'd love to hear from you: If you'd like a further discussion about the role, please contact Amanda Evans (Amanda.evans@staffordshire.gov.uk) or Kelly Stark (Kelly.stark@staffordshire.gov.uk)

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. 

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. 

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.