Analyst | 8689 | Temporary Contract/Secondment Opportunity – 18 Month contract

Insight & Analytics are recruiting an Analyst to work in a closely embedded way with Children’s Services for an 18-month period.

Overview

An exciting opportunity is available within the Children's Services (Education & Inclusion) team to fill a secondment Analyst post, jointly supporting two key areas of Children’s Services:

Norfolk Virtual School for Children in Care, Previously in Care, Children with a Social Worker and Kinship

The virtual school has a statutory role to provide advice, support and guidance to promote the educational achievement of Children in care and Previously in care. More recently this has been expanded to include a non-statutory strategic role for Children with a Social Worker and Children in Kinship Care. This role will support the virtual school by maintaining and developing an existing suite of PowerBI reports. The role also provides the opportunity to perform key analysis of educational outcomes. This is in support of enabling the Virtual School to describe, understand and communicate their key indicators over time though routine communications such as the annual report or internal team planning.

Early Years

The Early Years service has a statutory role to secure sufficient childcare in Norfolk for parents/carers. The Analyst will support the Sufficiency lead to understand and extract the most value from their data, alongside advising on data collection to support this work. The aim of this analysis is to inform action planning for the service which will aid decision making in the deployment of resources to meet their statutory duty. This area is a high priority for the service due to recent expansions of the availability of funded childcare places for eligible parents or carers.

For both aspects of the role, the teams are at an exciting point in their development, providing lots of opportunity for shaping new analysis with a foundation of existing reporting in place.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Power BI reports and dashboards using a mix of data sources including DfE publications, locally held datasets and data models.
• Perform key analysis of educational outcomes to support the Virtual School’s reporting and planning.
• Effectively manage and prioritise own workload, working closely with services and colleagues within Insight & Analytics.
• Collaborate with the Sufficiency Lead in Early Years to understand data needs and influence data collection improvements.
• Contribute to internal and external communications such as annual reports and planning documents.

Qualifications

• Experience of Business Intelligence using Power BI; ability to develop dashboards and analytical reports.
• Experience or familiarity with Children’s Services and pupil data is advantageous.
• Proactive with a drive to develop skills and business knowledge, able to work in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working – dependent on your job role and business need
• Financial benefits:
  • ‘Norfolk Rewards’ discounts programme
  • A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
  • Relocation expenses (where applicable)
  • Advance of expenses for travel
  • Local Government Pension Scheme with employer contributions, life assurance and dependants’ pensions
  • Tax-efficient pension and bike schemes
  • Access to a car lease scheme for greener travel (subject to eligibility)
  • Refer-a-friend bonus for hard-to-fill roles

Additional information

For more information or an informal chat about the role, please contact Martin Mander – Business Insight Manager: martin.mander@norfolk.gov.uk | 01603 223913

Before you apply, please read the full Job description and person specification to help you demonstrate how you meet the criteria. You can also find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

Redeployment closing date: 18th September 2025 at 23:59. All other applicants closing date: 25th September 2025 at 23:59.