Senior Planning Officer (Reporting and Insight Lead)

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Salary from £55,028 to £63,404 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £70,455 pa inclusive of London allowance

This is a fixed term appointment for one year

The London School of Economics and Political Science is one of the foremost social science universities in the world. The Planning Division is integral in supporting and monitoring the School’s progress towards achieving its strategic objectives. The Senior Planning Officer (Reporting and Insight Lead) supports a range of tasks undertaken across the School, primarily relating to leading the Reporting and Insight Sub-Team in the creation and management of Power BI reports and apps to support insight and strategic decision making across the School.

Candidates should have:

• Experience managing small teams and/or projects.
• Experience working with end-users and stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust visualisations that can deliver actionable insights.
• The ability to produce and maintain high-quality user-friendly and accessible reports preferably using Power BI within a Microsoft Fabric environment.
• Experience of creating and implementing documentation, standards and governance around reports and visualisations.
• Experience of creating end-to-end ETL processes producing reliable datasets for reporting
• Experience of creating or contributing to a work culture of continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills covering both technical and non-technical audiences, including the ability to train reportees, peers and end-users both in-person and online.
• Excellent general IT skills including the use of key Microsoft products and an understanding of how these connect with each other.

We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave, hybrid working, and excellent training and development opportunities.

For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification.

To apply for this post, please click the 'Apply' button above . If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email Planning.Division@lse.ac.uk.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 29 November (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.

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