Senior Analytical Officer

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

- 287739**Salary**:

- £40,642 - £41,048- £40,642 per annum. Rising to £41,048 on successful completion of probation.
- **Part-time hours minimum 22 hours**.**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer- B1**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Insights and Research Directorate**Type of role**:

- Analytical
- Operational Research
- Statistics
- Other**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

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- 2 Rivergate, BristolAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Senior Analytical Officers play a crucial role in the effective running of Data and Insight and in leading the team in which they work. They provide vital support to their team leader by taking a wide range of responsibilities. Some will have more focus on technical skills whilst some will specialise more in delivering insightful analysis, but all will cover a wide range of tasks.

Senior Analytical Officers specialise in one remit area but may be required to develop knowledge of other remit areas to enable flexible cross-team working. Most have line management responsibilities, leading and managing a small team to deliver a range of outputs. They will lead substantial projects and other pieces of work. They develop expertise in the data for their area and use that expertise to make an impact.

The post holder will have a wide range of responsibilities, which may include any of: managing and producing pre-inspection data products, managing the production of official statistics about their remit, contributing analysis to and quality assuring HMCI's Annual Report, producing briefings for HMCI or directors both proactively and as requested, delivering responses to Freedom of Information requests, official correspondence, Parliamentary Questions and other ad hoc requests from within Ofsted. They may provide support for Ofsted's research and evaluation programme. They take responsibility for ensuring their outputs, and those of their team, are accurate, timely and relevant.

The post holder is expected to build strong relationships across Data and Insight and across the organisation to ensure their work is informed by and informs policy development.

**Job description**:

- Please refer to the job specification for further information.**Person specification**:
The key responsibilities of the role are outlined below, this is an overview of the role and is not exhaustive. Ofsted reserves the right to assign other duties commensurate with the **B1 APT** grade as required.
- To effectively lead and manage a team to deliver a programme of work.
- To be the expert in pre
- or post-inspection data in the relevant remit area including the systems in which it is held and how it is affected by policy changes.
- To deliver timely and accurate pre-inspection data which meets the needs of inspectors and reflects government priorities.
- To analyse and generate insight to identify what our data is telling us and what this means for the organisation and the sector by providing value-added analysis, insight and commentary.
- To communicate the findings of analysis clearly and with impact, and to monitor the impact made through analysis.
- To be innovative and curious in investigating hypotheses and pursuing analysis, delivering frequent new or updated insight into inspection and the relevant sector.
- To deliver timely and accurate official statistics with interesting and insightful commentary.
- To support the central data development team in developing data reports.
- To respond quickly and accurately to a range of internal and external requests including official correspondence, Freedom of Information requests and Parliamentary Questions.
- To develop strong relationships with colleagues across the organisation to ensure that measures and data products are developed to meet identified needs and that analysis and evidence informs policy making.
- To work closely with colleagues across Data and Insight to ensure that work is joined-up and focused on organisational priorities.
- To work with partners in other organisations to ensure that measures and data products are relevant for Ofsted's needs and that Ofsted understands them and is able to use them effectively.
- To keep up to date with research in their remit area so that work is informed by the latest findings and outputs fit into the wider policy context.
- To work with external partners such as other government departments, research organisations and academics, to deliver new and insightful analysis.
- At all times the post holder will be expected to operate in accordance with Ofsted's policies, procedures and values and be positive about safeguarding children, valuing diversity, respecting differences and promoting equal opportunities.

**Qualifications**:

- Degree level qualification or equivalent relevant knowledge and experience or professional qua