Planning and Business Insight Officer

3 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Grade UE07: £37,099 - £44,263 (per annum). A revised salary range for this grade of £39,347 to £46,974 is planned to take effect from Spring 2024.
**College of Science & Engineering - College Office, Planning & Operations Team**

**Full-time: 35 hours per week**

**Open-ended: permanent
We are seeking to recruit a Planning and Business Insight Officer who will be responsible for planning activities to inform strategic decision-making across the College.

**The opportunity**

The post holder will: support the management and provision of business data to enable operational and strategic decision-making across the College; carry out quantitative and qualitative analyses to keep track of delivery of College plans and projects, providing insight into performance of units across the College; and contribute broadly to College planning processes, and projects which improve governance and operational resilience across the College.

This role will be part of the College Office Planning & Operations team.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:
You should be educated to degree level or similar, along with hands-on experience in a similar or related role, or vocational experience, with demonstrable development through involvement in progressively more demanding relevant work/roles.

You will have strong numerical skills with the ability to analyse complex and inter-dependent numerical data; experience of developing management information, models and dashboards; and be technically competent to tailor data visualisations and reports for specific user groups.

You will have a strong customer-focus and be flexible in what is a constantly changing environment; with excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills.

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**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme **, **staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Click to access our **staff benefits page **(opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work webpages **(opens new browser tab).

**Application Process**

To apply, please upload your CV and a covering letter outlining your suitability for the post.

**Key dates to note**

Interviews will be held **w/c 11 March 2024.**

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.



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