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Recruitment Resourcer | West Sussex County Council | HR Planning

Do you have a talent for bringing date to life? Do you have experience of performance management, business information tools and techniques?

Performance & Insight is an established and well-regarded team of data experts whose function is to provide actionable insight to help our services make the best business decisions. We are a team that is not content with being merely “good enough” but are constantly striving to improve our reputation for innovation and best practice.

Want to know more…for more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

The Opportunity

Salary: £53,350 to £57,005 per annum

Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week

Location: Based at County Hall, Chichester and hybrid working from home

Interview date: Thursday 24 July 2025

As our Performance & Intelligence Business Partner –Adults’ Services team, you will work with service managers and their teams to ensure their performance is as effective and efficient as it can be. Through matrix managing a team of analysts who thrive on a challenge, you will develop and maintain robust performance management systems.

You have a vital role to bring actionable insight and intelligence to our directors and senior management to ensure data and evidence is valued and made fundamental to service delivery and improvement. It is vital that every report and dashboard produced is planned, delivered, tracked and acted upon.

The whole organisation is rich in data, and your role is to convert this into meaningful information, insights, robust performance management systems and accessible visualisations. Working with other Performance and Intelligence Business Partners, you will interact with Council services and with our partner organisations, seeking knowledge about their data and intelligence priorities and identifying areas where you can add value.

What are we looking for?

• Clear perspective on what good and outstanding levels of local government services look like (with a focus on socio-economic data).
• Relentless focus on quality and determination to deliver.
• Develop effective business relationships (as a key business partner) across Adults’ Services to support their research, data collation, disseminate results and provide valuable insights to support decision making processes.
• organisations, senior managers and their teams within Place Services, to understand their remit and business performance and to benchmark performance where appropriate
• Confidence to stay focused when tested, clear perspective on impact to be achieved
• Ability to motivate project teams and to prioritise workloads, to use your own judgement and seek out opportunities where your team can contribute most effectively.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills
• Capability to interpret data and insight quickly and accurately.
• Aptitude and empathy to provide appropriate challenge.
• Experience of team management, creating effective team and individual work plans, and ensuring delivery of core objectives is essential

Working for us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CRS00954.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Gary Strudwick (Head of Performance & Intelligence) at gary.strudwick@westsussex.gov.uk.For issues or queries regarding your application please contact hrrecruitment@westsussex.gov.uk.

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

Please provide examples on the following two points in your cover letter when applying for this role:

• Knowledge / previous work experience in Adult Social Care, preferably in analytics and data presentation
• Good understanding of the Adult Social Care Outcomes framework, how this links to social work practice, and national reporting requirements.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.

Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.

We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application help page.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development, Analyst, and Strategy/Planning

• Industries

  Government Administration and Data Infrastructure and Analytics

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