Digital Business Analyst - GSG Experience

• Digital Business Analyst - GSG experience
• Working on a goverment programme
• Contract until 31st March 2022 with the likelihood of extension
• Location: Remote this may change in March 2022 to hybrid (Exeter Office Base)
• Rate: (£500 Inside IR35)
• Occasional travel throughout the UK, as required by the job.
• Occasional overnight stays throughout the UK, as required by the job.

Skills and Experience
Essential

• Experience of identifying and managing areas where there are shared and conflicting agendas.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to choose content and style to suit the audience, including large groups.
• Able to work within a team under guidance from senior colleagues, able to work on own initiative as well as a member of a team, able to work across teams.
• Able to communicate effectively with both external and internal customers and colleagues to understand the work required and present or explain work completed.
• Able to manage a small team and prioritise own and staff's work in line with organisational priorities.
• Experience of leading on a range of projects, including the allocation of work to other staff, to deliver quality outcomes to deadline and identifying risks.
• Able to learn rapidly to use new statistical packages to a high standard
• Able to influence the design of initiatives to ensure that robust data collection is facilitated.
• Able to choose the appropriate analytical approaches for whole work streams.
• Builds strong relationships with customers and develops own reputation, as well as that of the team or Department.
• Builds the capability of others by sharing good practice with own business area and with other analytical colleagues.
• Able to communicate complex and technical concepts and issues to non-technical colleagues, customers and stakeholders.
• Experience of devising solutions to ensure internal specialist expertise adds demonstrable value to the wider system.

Desirable

• Experience with using record level data.
• Design and commission new work, such as a new survey
• Experience and aptitude in using a
• Statistical package, e.g. SAS, SPSS or R

Knowledge

The post holder will have deep specialist knowledge or the ability to build deep specialist knowledge in at least one of the following areas:

• Statistical modelling and techniques including coding on software packages
• Business intelligence and visual analytics to develop and standardise sophisticated interactive presentations
• Data science using cutting edge technologies combined with data expertise to solve real-world problems
• Data linkage and analysis of new types of data including using analysis and subject matter knowledge to inform content requirements.

Desirable

• Experience of working in the public sector.
• Able to exhibit knowledge of relevant legislation when working with public data.
• Knowledge of the techniques used for planning and executing testing throughout the software lifecycle
• Knowledge of using two or more of these statistical techniques: analysis of variance, multiple regression, other multivariate techniques, stochastic processes, time series analysis, generalised linear model, hypothesis testing or index numbers.