SEO - Data and Reporting Lead

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

- 339199**Salary**:

- £38,732-
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Project Delivery**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Birmingham, Darlington, Manchester, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- The Funding Delivery Directorate - Levelling Up Major Programmes responsible for funding programmes, including the Towns Fund, Levelling Up Fund and Freeports. Our focus is on getting funding to where it is needed most and maximising impact so that everyone can benefit from economic growth and prosperity. We care about the quality of our products, our customer experience and team well-being. Our programmes deliver across government priorities and we have strong networks across other government departments, bringing them into programme design, assessment and funding decisions. The £3.6bn Towns Fund is a priority for the department’s levelling up agenda. Through working directly with places and putting power in the hands of local businesses and communities, we are unleashing the economic potential of towns and high streets across England. We want to see vibrant towns that are more attractive places to live, work and visit; and to level up opportunity across the country so that everyone (wherever they live) can contribute to and benefit from economic growth. This role is for an SEO Reporting and Data Evaluation Lead, and we are seeking a highly motivated individual who is looking to develop themselves and their career in a high profile, fast paced and impactful policy area.**Job description**:

- Reporting - of which monthly reports include GRIP, RADAR and the Board.
- Reporting - of which GMPP and other commissions fall quarterly and, on an ad-hoc basis.
- Collating data - supporting the biannual collation of performance data.
- Working toward establishing a single source of data across all town deals and projects that contains details regarding progress, finance, comms and other updates. Consider linkages to performance reporting. Tasks will include integrating finance and performance project data and seeking feedback from target users.
- Working closely with Finance and Performance reporting, integrating a wide range of data and forging links across the team.

**Person specification**:

- First-hand experience of working in or leading data collation. Comfortable working in a fast project environment that actively seeks to change and improve the data the department collects, stores, interrogates, and shares.
- Able to understand, communicate and make use of a wide range of data to support evidence-based decisions.
- Has a proactive attitude and is willing to consider how to adapt products and processes for different audiences.
- Able to manage own workload and competing priorities; you know when to escalate project blockers to seniors and when to self-manage and seek a solution. Can task manage others.
- Competent use of Excel. Defined as the ability to create graphs, pivot tables, and conditional formatting.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Changing and Improving
- Delivering at Pace

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £38,732, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £10,457 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.**We are for everyone**

**We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.**

We are for everyone

DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.

Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors.
- The assessor won’t be reading your answers sequentially.
- Do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.
- If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on)

**At sift, we will be assessing**

Behaviour 1 (lead behaviour) - Changing and Improving

Behaviour 2 Delivering at Pace

There is a 250 word limit per question.

**The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of the following success profiles elements**