Head of Gcg Data and Analytical Services

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

- 402245

**Salary**:

- £76,000
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- SCS Pay Band 1

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- CO - Government Commercial and Grants Function

**Type of role**:

- Analytical
Senior leadership
Statistics

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- Glasgow, Manchester, York

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
This is a high profile role providing senior leadership to a specialist analytical portfolio that supports grant making and commercial activity across government. The role requires working with Head of Functions, Senior Officials, Ministers and Senior Executives of key external organisations including suppliers and charities.

The post holder will be responsible for leading the development and implementation of joined up data strategies and analytical programmes that drive forward the Government's agenda to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of grant and commercial activity. They will be responsible for providing impactful analysis to support decision making at the most senior levels of government, and driving a step-change across government in grant and commercial data maturity.

The role demands the ability to think strategically coupled with expert analytical skills and a track record of delivery excellence, formulating cross-organisation initiatives and importantly delivering results.

**Job description**:
The main post holder responsibilities include:

- Advising Ministers and Senior Officials on the data and analytical agenda for grants and commercial activity, and developing analytical solutions to meet Ministerial objectives.
- Delivering joined up data strategies that create a cohesive data ecosystem for grants and commercial activity, where data is fit for purpose and fully utilised to support delivery.
- Delivering a complex analytical portfolio to drive improved functional performance - enhancing oversight, highlighting gaps and driving improvements in efficiency and productivity. Ensuring analysis is relevant and forward looking for changing economic, political and technological developments.
- Ensuring effective budget and contract management to deliver value for money.
- Leading a core team of 15 staff of mixed grades and analytical specialisms, alongside supplier delivery teams - creating a positive culture and building capability.
- Leading regular engagement with departmental Commercial Directors and Grants Senior Functional Leads to drive maturity and capability through improved use of data and analytical insight.
- Delivering the annual Official Statistics publication on grant spend - improving transparency in grant funding and increasing public trust. Ensuring that Government meet its commitment in the Transparency Agenda.
- Leading initiatives to understand the impact of functional activities - ensuring accurate measurement of multi-million pound cashable benefits, and embedding a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
- Leading the data agenda across digital tools - developing sustainable data collection mechanisms, maintaining data quality and ensuring data interoperability across digital tools.

**Person specification**:
It is important that, through your CV and supporting statement, that you provide evidence of the following **Essential Criteria**:

- Substantial experience of leading analytical teams and complex analytical portfolios.
- Expertise in various database technologies and data modelling techniques to design scalable data architectures and optimise data storage and retrieval.
- Outstanding leadership skills, with experience of building a positive empowered inclusive culture where analysts and data specialists are able to flourish, deliver and develop.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and communicate technical information to non-technical audiences.
- Experience of working across multiple organisations to drive improvements in data maturity and implement data strategies and/or data standards.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, and maintain a professional network.
- Comfortable working in and leading multi locational diverse teams in fast-paced, changing environments and working under significant pressure.

**Desirable Criteria**:

- Knowledge of government analytical frameworks, such as the Green Book, Magenta Book, Aqua Book and the Code of Practice for Statistics.
- Knowledge of grant funding and procurement.
- Experience of digital delivery, including knowledge of agile methodologies and resource planning.
- Experience of machine learning, predictive analytics, automation, AI and programming languages such as SQL, Python or Java.

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