This role has a starting salary of £43,293 per annum, based on a 36-hour working week. This role is fixed term until 30/06/2025 with the possibility of extension.
We are excited to be hiring a new Strategic Analyst to join our fantastic Early Help and Partnerships team. The team is based in Woking (with hybrid working) and plays a fundamental role in capturing, analysing, and presenting key data and local intelligence, showing the impact of our services for children and families. You will be working as part of a dynamic early help service that brings together local partnerships and develops opportunities to enable families to receive the right support at the right time.
Please note, the contractual location for this role is currently Quadrant Court, however it is our intention to move within the local area to Victoria Gate in Central Woking later this year.
Rewards and Benefits
- 26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' service
- Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
- An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
- Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
- Paternity, adoption and dependents leave
- A generous local government salary related pension
- Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
- 2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year
- Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
About the Team
Our early help teams provide support to families across Surrey in a timely and dynamic way, to enable them to achieve their goals and receive support early enough to avoid escalation into statutory interventions. By joining this team, you will be helping to shape the development of the services by enabling the partnership to clearly focus and review its impact for children and families.
About the Role
In this role you will bring together local datasets, and work with colleagues to ensure that our early help data clearly shows the impact and outcomes for children and families receiving support. You will work to develop this dataset and continually evolve this to support the partnership needs showing local trends. The national Supporting Families Outcomes Framework is pivotal to this work and you will need to have a full understanding of these reporting processes and have experience in national data returns and funding streams such as this.
You will play a crucial part in enhancing our service delivery by actively seeking out partnership data sets and spearheading efforts to identify and implement improvements in supporting families' data. You will collaborate with colleagues to amalgamate local datasets, ensuring that our early help data effectively demonstrates the impact and outcomes for children and families receiving support. Your responsibilities will extend to developing and refining this dataset to reflect evolving partnership needs and local trends. You will work with a data analyst to support you with this work, and you will need to support them and ensure that the impact of the work is reflected in the data and reporting.
Shortlisting Criteria
To be considered for shortlisting for this position, your application will clearly evidence the following:
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of performance information and intelligence and reporting requirements in which children's services operate and knowledge of models of service delivery
- Proven ability to interpret and analyse information and formulate and present reports and recommendations
- High level of skill in the use of ICT/digital media and software applications that support statistical analysis/business intelligence
- Willingness and ability to travel around county and work outside normal office hours
- Ability to line manage a Data Analyst
The job advert closes at 23:59 on 26th May 2024 with interviews to be held in person in Woking on 5th June 2024.
Our Commitment
Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applications where:
- The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application
- The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form
Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role.
We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.