Planning and Data Analyst

Planning and Data Analyst 

The Planning and Performance Department is advertising a great opportunity to build on your data analysis skills and to contribute to the development of a growing range of innovative Business Intelligence solutions to enhance informed planning and decision making at the University. 

The Department provides information, insight and analysis to support evidenced-based decision making on institutional-wide strategy and planning.  You will work across the University providing planning and analytical support to senior members of the department. Working on a variety of regular and ad-hoc data analysis tasks, ranging from market and performance data, student and staff data, to workload planning, you will be highly numerate, comfortable dealing with large datasets and able to communicate complex concepts to a varied audience. To succeed in this role, you will have:  

• Highly developed analytical skills, with experience of applying quantitative techniques to complex data sets presenting the insights with confidence to a range of audiences.   
• Experience in building constructive working relationships and engaging with a wide range of colleagues; with strong communication skills, including the ability to explain intricate and detailed information in non-technical language to drive action and decision-making. 
• Experience in system administration, writing guidance and policy materials, and providing advice and training. 
• Excellent IT skills and experience of using the full Microsoft Office package, including advanced use of Excel. 
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills. 

This is a permanent full-time post, 37 hours per week. We welcome applications from job-shares. We will be shortlisting based on your written supporting statements against the essential criteria. Please write your supporting statement in your own words and do not use generative AI or templates. We may close recruitment for this vacancy before the stated date if we receive a large volume of applications. 

Further details:

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.

For the vast majority of our roles we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.

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