South Gloucestershire Council
Data and Information Analyst
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As an Information Analyst, you will play a key role in driving service improvements across the council. By using your technical and analytical skills to provide accurate data, meaningful insights and clear reporting, you will help shape decision-making, enhance service delivery and contribute to improved outcomes for children, young people and adults.
What You Will Be Doing
- You will analyse performance information across the Education Service, identifying trends, investigating the causes of both strong and poor performance, and providing insights that drive improvement.
- Building on your existing knowledge of Power BI, you will create and share dashboards, manage audience apps and connect via an SQL gateway to Mosaic and Capita. Working closely with service managers and operational teams, you will provide guidance and support to help them maximise the value of their Power BI dashboards and reports.
- Under the direction of a senior manager, you may also contribute to improvement projects, helping to identify opportunities to enhance service performance, strengthen data quality and support evidence-based decision-making.
- You will take the lead on the timely completion of statutory returns and respond to a range of ad hoc information requests, including Freedom of Information enquiries.
- It will be your responsibility to produce accurate, relevant and reliable information to support elected members and senior managers in making informed decisions on issues such as resource allocation, service planning and policy development across a wide range of services and client groups.
- Working collaboratively as part of a team, you will deliver daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reporting requirements, supporting the new reforms.
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What We Need From You
- You must be educated to degree level in statistical or significant numerical and/or computing content or equivalent relevant qualification or have experience of working in an analytical environment within a large organisation.
- You will have experience of working with the Mosaic Case Management System and Capita.
- It is essential that you have strong analytical capabilities as well as a sound understanding of the children and young people policy, data and performance landscape.
- With experience of collaborating with a range of stakeholders and partners, you will have the skills to gather requirements, solve complex problems and demonstrate how data-driven insights can support service improvement and informed decision-making.
- Ideally, you will have, or a willingness to develop your skills, in writing reports using MS SQL, extracting and analysing data and presenting information in a clear and meaningful way, alongside strong technical skills in Excel.
What You Need To Know
- Your salary is pro-rata to hours worked.
- This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road, Yate and from home.
Interviews will be held on 9th and 10th September 2026.
How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different
- We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
- We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
- As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
- We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
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Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
- We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.
- We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.
We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
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