Senior Analytical Officer

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

- 430001

**Salary**:

- £46,954
- £46,490 per annum. Rising to £46,954 per annum on successful completion of probation.
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer
- B1 APT

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- Insights and Research

**Type of role**:

- Analytical
Other

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

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

**Location**:

- 2 Rivergate, Bristol

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Senior Analytical Officer to join our Data and Insight team.

As a Senior Analytical Officer, you will lead on a range of analytical tasks, support your team leader, and help shape the direction of our work. You will be responsible for producing insightful, accurate, and timely outputs that influence senior stakeholders and the wider organisation. This is a key role in delivering high-quality analysis that informs policy, supports inspections, and contributes to strategic decision-making across Ofsted.

This is a fantastic opportunity to further your experience in Ofsted’s well-established team. The post holder will work with high-achieving professionals at all levels, surrounded by a friendly and supportive team. They will have access to amazing benefits, such as flexible working hours, the Civil Service Pension Scheme, and 32.5 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays. We offer a hybrid working model, so you may also choose to spend a proportion of time working from home.

**Job description**:

- Please refer to the job specification for further information.

**Person specification**:

- Please refer to the job specification for further information.

**Qualifications**:

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

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

- Changing and Improving
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Highly developed statistical or research skills in designing and carrying out appropriate data analysis, implementing quality assurance procedures, summarising key findings and communicating them with impact.
- Well-developed technical skills in appropriate programmes, for example Excel and SQL/R, to manage, manipulate and analyse large and complex sets of data and identify the key findings.
- Experience of successful engagement with internal and/or external stakeholders. Ability to advise and make recommendations to decision-makers that are well-founded and reliable to influence the course of action or thinking.
- Ability to bring a broader perspective when seeking solutions; using analysis and problem-solving skills to effectively contribute to strategic development.
- Collect and prepare data
Design innovative data collection activities (gathering new data or combining existing data sources).
- User requirements
Proactively engage with users to establish their analytical requirements, helping them to translate their analytical questions into tangible requirements in a timely way.
- Data quality
Provide advice on what data can and cannot be used for
- Select and perform analysis
Describe the main theoretical and practical features, assumptions, strengths, limitations, and interpretations of a range of statistical techniques.
- Highly developed statistical or research skills in designing and carrying out appropriate data analysis, implementing quality assurance procedures, summarising key findings and communicating them with impact.
- Well-developed technical skills in appropriate programmes, for example Excel and SQL/R, to manage, manipulate and analyse large and complex sets of data and identify the key findings.
- Experience of successful engagement with internal and/or external stakeholders. Ability to advise and make recommendations to decision-makers that are well-founded and reliable to influence the course of action or thinking.
- Ability to bring a broader perspective when seeking solutions; using analysis and problem-solving skills to effectively contribute to strategic development.

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £46,954, Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills contributes £13,602 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Full details of the benefits available can be found in our Ofsted Offer brochure.

**Things you need to know**:
**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

**Application and Shortlisting**:
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