BI & Performance Business Partner - Adults & Housing

**About The Role**:
Do you have a curious mind, are you driven by the complexities of data and what it can tell you? Come and work with us - we are looking for someone to join us as soon as possible to bolster the strategic performance and business intelligence needs of our Adults & Housing directorate. This is an exciting time to join the central Business Intelligence (BI) & Performance Service as we explore new approaches in data science and analytics.

Using your well-developed professional BI & Performance experience, you will be able to identify creative BI & Data solutions to address a range of insight, intelligence, and reporting challenges, and we hope that you will use your customer-focused attitude to contribute to the success of the team.

Key stakeholders will include the council’s senior leadership team, directorate management team, operational managers, project teams, internal ICT and digital colleagues and any regional benchmarking groups.

We adopt an agile approach to working, with opportunities to work either in the office or remotely depending on the activity. We encourage collaborative working across the team, where projects can often overlap team areas. As a service we also like to make full use of the technology available to us, including hybrid facilities which allow for with a mix of in-person and remote in the same setting.

This is a strategic role where you will be actively partnering with the Adults and Housing leadership team, supporting them by proactively identifying opportunities for Business Intelligence, performance reporting and the use of data to both improve and transform ways of working. You will also use your significant influencing skills to ensure that activity is carried out in support of the council’s wider strategic objectives and overarching council plan. Full details are provided in the context statement.

Importantly, as part of the BI & Performance management team, you will help to guide the future direction of the central Business Intelligence and Performance service.

The Council operates a hybrid working model and flexi-time to suit your work-life balance that can be achieved without the need to relocate should you wish. Applications are invited from talented individuals residing anywhere that have a genuine passion for the job. Please contact us should you wish to discuss working arrangements.

**Further Information**:
If you would like an informal chat about the role to understand more, please get in touch with David Bonner, Service Manager for BI & Performance on 01305 225503.

**Dorset Council: A great place to work**

We’re passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.

At Dorset Council we:

- provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
- have ambitious aspirations
- are excited about our future
- care about Dorset and all the people who live here
- know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success You will:

- have access to a range of employee benefits
- be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
- have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours. We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

**About Us**:
The BI & Performance Service is responsible for providing high-quality, accurate and timely business intelligence and performance information across the council. We are a centralised service with a very broad remit, making working here both exciting and unique As a Service we have been busy developing new strategic data products and have just agreed an exciting 5-year Data & BI strategy. The work we do has a big impact and is central to delivering on the council’s ambitions to become an ever more data-driven organisation. We provide business intelligence to aid our senior leadership team, elected councillors, and directorate teams and cover the following areas:

- Data Science
- Performance, Data & Analytics (including Adult Social Care and Children’s Reporting)
- Central strategic Policy & Research
- Risk Management

You will work closely with our internal Performance & Analytics team and be the key point of contact between the BI and Performance service and the Adults & Housing directorate.

Working for Dorset Council:
Dorset is an exciting place to work, live and visit with an excellent working culture within the council. Enjoy visiting areas of outstanding natural beauty, miles of picturesque beaches and coastline as well as excellent schools make Dorset the ideal place to raise a family