Assistant Data Curator

3 weeks ago

Swindon, United Kingdom Innovate UK Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 247904**Salary**:

- £31,931**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term**Length of employment**:

- Until (31/05/2024)**Business area**:

- IUK - Data and Resources**Type of role**:

- Business Management and Improvement**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- SwindonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Context**:
Innovate UK is currently undergoing a Data Strategy Implementation program with new data and AI solutions being created to help improve productivity, automate processes, and improve customer experience.

The Data Curator will be a key part of the growing Data team of which is core to implementing new and innovative solutions to support the business using data.

We particularly welcome female applicants as women are under-represented within Innovate UK in this type of role.

**Job Purpose**:
The post holder will be a part of the Innovate UK Business Systems & Insights function and will be a key member of the data team.

The role holder will execute the processes for identifying data quality issues under the direction of senior and lead data curators, document progress, and work through analysis of data issues in the work pipeline to achieve more consistent and accurate data outputs. These data issues will be resolved through small local system or process changes or larger organisation wide process changes. They may be technical enhancements or cultural changes.

The Assistant Data Curator will be the secondary contact for all EU Subsidy reporting and other statutory reporting requirements.

The role holder will assist with ad hoc data requests, often generating datasets and insights from different sources. They will have the opportunity to get involved in and influence cross cutting initiatives, using a digital by default principle.

They will provide ad-hoc systems knowledge and training for the wider organisation i.e. Excel use, data extracts and how to get them, and sharing knowledge of information available and it’s appropriate use and best practices for analysis.

**Job description**:
**Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities**:
The data curator will be the main point of contact for the business, providing regular legislative reports but also adhoc reporting and analysis, to include:

- Collation and validation of subsidy and key grant data from Innovate UK systems to support the regular reporting cycle
- Provide support to report development and visualisation tools, and provide training to colleagues on tools as required
- Enhancing reporting usability and capability to develop and encourage reporting self-service where appropriate
- Perform data validation and quality control checks to ensure robust and reliable outputs, including support in development of resolution of any identified issues
- Use data sources to identify new opportunities & system enhancements to improve data quality, modelling and reporting
- Identification of risk points in systems and systems-related processes, and actions required to address these
- Assist with EU reporting and grant funding, capturing issues and raise to appropriate individual or team for resolution
- Participate in and inform data curation lead and data team with regards to data product development

To Achieve this you will have the following skills:

- Comfortable working in an Agile rapidly changing environment, in response to the demands of the business
- You will enjoy new challenges and have a thirst for knowledge
- Proven team-working skills
- Self-organisation skills and a demonstrable ability to manage and prioritise a workload in order to meet tight deadlines
- Ability to manage often conflicting demands of multiple stakeholders whilst protecting the integrity and ownership of the documented processes
- The ability to respond calmly under pressure and to make impartial and well-considered judgments in complex situations as and when required
- Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
- Ability to perform root cause analysis on external and internal processes and data to identify opportunities for improvement
- This is not an exhaustive list and you might be encouraged to undertake any other duties across the wider directorate, commensurate with the Band and level of responsibility of this post, for which the post holder has the key experience and/or training._

**Person specification**:
**Person Specification**:
**Qualifications**:
Essential
- Educated to degree level or relevant equivalent experience.

**Experience**:
Essential
- Experience with MS Office products including a very strong aptitude with MS Excel
- Proven experience of collating and analysing data from multiple sources
- Experience of SQL queries
- Proven ability to work within the constraints of time, cost and quality
- Demonstrates attention to detail and pride in accuracy.
- Flexibility to

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