Data Support Officer

**Salary**

NJC15 - £30,024.00

**Contractual hours**

37

**Basis**

Full time

**Hours**

Permanent

**Date posted**

04/09/2025

**Job reference**

NELC400000287

**Do you have a passion for using data to make a real difference in education and SEND services?**

**Whats the role all about?**

This is a new role within our Data & Insights team that is responsible for the collection, collation, and analysis of data and information for education and SEND data.

We are looking for an individual who has a genuine understanding and enthusiasm about the use of robust, reliable data and information to support service delivery and who has a positive, proactive attitude.

In this role you will collate and gather information from a wide range of sources and systems across the council and its partners. You will ensure that information is accessible to the data analysts working within the team, ensuring that data is ‘clean’ and of a high quality, and undertake some data analysis yourself. You will also work with a range of stakeholders, including schools, to assist in producing various Government Data Returns.

**Your Responsibilities.**

Working closely with education, ICT and children’s services you will undertake a wide range of data processing, data validation, error checking and system testing roles.

**Who are we looking for?**

You will have experience of working with data in a large and complex organisation and you will be able to demonstrate that you have experience of using databases and tools such as Excel. You need to have an aptitude for fine detail as the role involves quality assuring and cleaning data and working with colleagues to understand and correct data discrepancies. The role will involve amending system data and running extract reports and will require a good knowledge of information governance principles.

Experience of working within a school environment in an Administration, Data, Teaching or Mentoring role would be an advantage, as would knowledge of the school education system and building good working relationships with schools.

You will have the ability to build good relationships with internal and external users of the data, and to be able to confidently raise data issues with colleagues and present data in different ways for a range of audiences.

**How to apply?**

**Key Dates**
- **
Closing date - 18th September 2025**:

- **Interview date - 29**th**September 2025**

**As part of your RewardNEL package**, you will have a generous leave entitlement (including bank holidays) and enrolment into a local government pension.

You will also have access to our **exclusive** **RewardNEL** platform.

This includes a variety of salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle2Work, Holiday Extra and Tusker (Car Lease), discounts at local coffee shops and bars, direct access to our inhouse wellbeing support, free and discounted local car parking as well as instant access to new savings at major retailers, entertainment and hotels.

NELC staff can also benefit from flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities and a Fostering friendly scheme.

**Do you need support?**

Your earnings go further in North East Lincolnshire, house prices are four times less than in London. Learn more about what our place has to offer at Life in North East Lincolnshire | NELC (nelincs.gov.uk) #FindYourSpace

**Get to know us better**

Check out our Council Plan and read about all of the exciting new developments we have in the pipeline.

**We regularly review data to ensure our recruitment processes are fair, transparent and promote equal opportunities for all. We also have an in-house Equalities Champions Group that works to promote and embed**inclusivity**in the workplace, helping us identify areas where we can take positive action, and make the organisation a safe space for colleagues to feel connected.