Business Intelligence Advisor

About the role
Cambridgeshire County Council's Business Intelligence Service is looking for a full-time Junior Research Analyst to join our Research Team. The Business Intelligence Service are an innovative service providing Business Intelligence to the County Council covering in-depth reporting for many areas such as our children's and adult's social care services, education and highways.

The Research Team delivers research and data analysis for the Council and local public sector partners. Our Junior Analysts are expected to be technically proficient in analysis and the use of analytical tools. They will have some experience in research or other analytical roles combined with excellent IT, time management and communication skills. The successful applicant can expect to develop their knowledge and expertise further and complete complex analysis using Excel, Power BI, GIS software and other data manipulation tools. This could include the opportunity to complete a level 4 Data Analyst Apprenticeship with our current provider Estio.

Our Research Team is outward facing, working together with a number of partner organisations to provide evidence to develop public policy. We do trade our research services within the public sector and have several contracts with our district councils, Combined Authority, the Greater Cambridge Partnership and others; we also host the region's economic forecasting model. This means we are pro-active and professional in our approach to our research work ensuring that it goes beyond the academic to have a real impact on public policy and on the provision of local services.

We are a family-friendly employer and will be happy to negotiate on working arrangements to achieve a good work / life balance. This Junior Analyst role is being offered on a permanent part-time or full-time basis and the successful applicant would be expected to work between 22.5 hours and 37 hours per week. We have a hybrid approach to working which includes a mixture of home working alongside some 'team days' being held in our office base at Sunley House in Papworth Everard.

What will you be doing?
Please see the attached 'day in the life of the Research Team' document for more information.

About you
This role would suit someone with knowledge of data collection and analysis. This knowledge could have been gained through employment or study. You should be prepared to provide examples of scenarios when you have worked with a dataset(s) and with analysis software (for example Excel, PowerBI or GIS).

Please see the attached Job Specification for full details.

About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

- Flexible working hours
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- Hybrid working - we currently work from our office base in Papworth Everard 1-2 days per week and have the option to work from home during the rest of the week.
- Opportunities for learning and development including an optional level 4+ data analyst apprenticeship scheme.
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme