Performance Analyst

Performance Analyst

Ref:

ACE45

Full time

£41, 496 - £44,539 per annum (pay award pending)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone who is passionate about using data to improve the services we deliver for residents in Newcastle. If you have skills using data and analysis and want to use them to benefit people, then we’d like to hear from you.

Who we are:

Newcastle is an ambitious city, it always has been. It is an iconic city with a rich heritage but one that also shapes the future of the region.

Here at Newcastle City Council, we have a real passion to improve the lives of residents and visitors in the city through the wide variety of essential public services we deliver and the relationships we influence. From our city leaders to every member of our team, we’re all committed to making Newcastle a city that is vibrant and thriving.

We want you to help us make Newcastle a great place to work, visit and live in.

Our values:

Everyone who works within one of our valuable public services makes an important contribution to delivering our vision and priorities of the city. How we do things is as important as what we do. In everything we do we strive to embed and live the Council’s values

• Proud

• Fair

• Ambitious

What the role will involve?

As part of the Informatics & Insights service, you'll be supporting the Children Education & Skills directorate with their data and analytical requirements.

There are two Performance Analyst roles available:

? Children’s Social Care Analyst

? Youth Justice Analyst

The roles will include undertaking a range of activities to enable us to achieve our analytical objectives, including using data and analysis to understand the needs of children in the city, develop and embed performance monitoring, using data to provide insights to managers and front-line workers, designing and undertaking analysis and research. Analysts also support our statutory reporting and inspection requirements.

You'll need to build great relationships with others on the team and across the organisation.

Who are we looking for?

You will need experience of working in an analytical role and be skilled in understanding, manipulating and using data for good.

The full Job Specification lists the essential skills and knowledge we are looking for in this role and this should be references in the personal statement within your application.

What can we offer you?

As well as being part of a team contributing to improving the outcomes of the city’s residents, you will also have

• A generous annual leave allowance.

• The option to buy additional annual leave.

• Access to family friendly policies including maternity and adoption leave, maternity support leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, special leave, leave when caring for a terminally ill dependent, leave for armed forces reservists, disability related special leave, career breaks and paid leave to support the electoral process.

• An enhanced work life balance including agile working, part-year working, compressed hours and flexi time where appropriate.

• Access to numerous salary sacrifice schemes including home electronics, car lease and gym membership.

• Access to physiotherapy, counselling services and eye tests for VDE users through our Occupational Health Service.

• Access to an extensive wellbeing programme including access to a 24 hour employee assistance programme for you and your immediate family.

• Access to Mental Health First Aiders.

• Ability to join staff network groups to meet and share information and raise awareness and include, Black and Minority Ethnic network, Disabled Employee network and LGBT+ network

• Ability to join a trade union.

• Access to a staff travel scheme.

• Access to learning and development opportunities including a comprehensive corporate induction programme, access to e-learning, an annual performance appraisal, upskilling apprenticeships, access to Learning Resource Centres

• A rewarding and most importantly access to a challenging career.

Additionally, we also offer you retail discounts on hundreds of the UK’s high street and online retailers including travel, dining out, mobile and broadband from the point of receiving your offer of employment

Why work for us?

We strive to be an organisation where equality, diversity and inclusion is part of who we are and how we work and where every member of our team is treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to building an inclusive and supportive workplace where you can bring your whole self to work and succeed in being your best.

Our people deliver amazing services, initiatives and projects to benefit the lives of our residents. They also develop, manage, and maintain the City’s vital infrastructure and public spaces that our societies and communities rely on.

If you want to become an integral part of the team to make a citywide difference for our residents and visitors then we want to hear from you.

For more information on the post, contact Steve on stephen.foreman@newcastle.gov.uk

Apply online at www.northeastjobs.org.uk, select 'Apply Now' and complete our online application form.

Permanent

Closing date:

20 June 2023