Senior Performance and Information Officer

About the role
The Performance and Intelligence Team provides high quality data and intelligence from a diverse range of data sets to execute effective data analysis to inform, influence and shape policy making, strategy development and budget planning for the Council.

Our development plans include providing more proactive business intelligence, by being able to report on demand patterns, service utilisation trends and customer profiling, to identify ways of supporting our residents better and more efficiently. We are also exploring the implementation of modern self-service visualisation and analytics across the Council’s services.

We need people to join us who can help. We are looking to appoint across multiple roles at varying levels, including technical data engineering and reporting, analyst and officer roles.

What will you be doing?
The role would serve to deliver effective and proactive performance and intelligence management to the Education Service ensuring that statutory and routine reporting obligations are met to a consistently high standard.

To support the collection, processing and provision of information in respect of Education data and analyse and interpret this information for the service area’s strategic planning purposes.

The role works closely with service managers, report developers, business analysts, IT and the wider intelligence service to effectively collect, organise, cleanse and interpret data to find meaningful and actionable insights to assist with operational and strategic decision making.

About you
In all our roles, we are looking for colleagues who see the world through a data lens, are proactive, self-managing, curious and have a self-reliant approach to problem solving. Good communication and strong client facing skills are also a prerequisite.

In this role specifically, we are looking for someone who has some experience of collecting, analysing and presenting data to varying stakeholders and who is looking to develop a career in performance and business analysis.

About us
We are a new unitary council, established in April 2021; we are one of the largest unitary councils in the country. Our vision for North Northants is to be 'A place where everyone has the best opportunities and quality of life'.

Our priorities are:

- helping people live active fulfilled lives
- caring for our young people, providing them with high quality education and opportunities
- enabling a thriving and successful economy
- leading on a green and sustainable environment
- ensuring our communities are connected so they can shape their lives and where they live
- providing modern public services

Our values, as chosen by our staff, are - Customer-focused, Respectful, Efficient, Supportive and Trustworthy.

**Your differences make us different - Achieve Together.**
- We are undertaking consultation with the Trade Unions on terms and conditions and the future NNC pay structure and during this time are appointing new employees on interim spot salaries. You will be advised of the outcome and any impact on your role once this work is complete._

Our benefits
We offer:

- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- agile and flexible working arrangements to help you with a healthy work-life balance.