Overview

Analyst | 8689 | Temporary Contract/Secondment Opportunity – 18 Month contract | 37 hours per week | £37,280 to £39,152 per annum (Scale I) | County Hall, Norwich

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

Analyst – Virtual School / Early Years | 18 Month Secondment

Education

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 through 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, and advise 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 due to recent expansions 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 opportunities for shaping new analysis with a foundation of existing reporting in place. The job will include a variety of tasks, and the post holder will need to effectively manage and prioritise their own workload, working closely with the services and other colleagues within I&A. Power BI dashboard development will be a key part of the role, using data sources including DfE publications, locally held datasets and data models.

This is an ideal opportunity for an Assistant Analyst with drive to develop their skills and business knowledge, or for a candidate from outside I&A to apply their interest in Children’s Services in a more technical way. Experience of Children’s Services and working with Pupil data specifically would be an advantage.

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

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 such as:
• “Norfolk Rewards” employee discounts programme
• A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
• Relocation expenses (where applicable)
• An advance of expenses for work travel
• Local Government Pension Scheme with employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions
• Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes
• Access to a tax-efficient car lease scheme for greener travel (subject to eligibility)
• A referral payment for referring someone to a hard-to-fill job

We want our people to be inspired and motivated to work well together, enjoy a healthy work-life balance, and deliver excellent services to Norfolk and its people. Flexibility is built into how we work, with hybrid working a key feature for many roles. Our technology platform and equipment are to a high standard, enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. A suitable broadband connection is expected.

Before you apply, we recommend reading 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.

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Redeployment closing date: 18th September 2025 at 23:59

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