Data and Intelligence Officer
Role Overview
Data and Intelligence Officer in the Data and Intelligence Service supporting children's social care and Families First Support.
The service works across children's social care and supportive services and provides training opportunities and team support.
The post delivers dashboards and intelligence for different audiences and requires analytical, SQL, Power BI, and communication skills.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Data and Intelligence Officer in the Data and Intelligence Service supporting children's social care and Families First Support.
The service works across children's social care and supportive services and provides training opportunities and team support.
The post delivers dashboards and intelligence for different audiences and requires analytical, SQL, Power BI, and communication skills.
Key responsibilities
- Analyse and report data and insight to inform decisions, plans, and strategies.
- Identify areas of concern or opportunity.
- Use business intelligence systems to capture, quality-assure, analyse, and report data and key activity.
- Support stakeholder relationships and advise on data, intelligence, and insight.
- Gather requirements to meet organisational objectives.
- Assist with statutory and other data and statistical returns.
- Provide accurate, consistent evidence for external inspections and peer reviews.
Key requirements
- Experience analysing data and interpreting statistics in a large, complex organisation.
- Ability to help develop database interrogation scripts and evaluate performance using data.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, including clear explanations tailored to the audience.
- High-level analytical, SQL, and Power BI skills.
Salary and contract
- Contract is stated as permanent.
- Salary is £35,570–£39,481; no pay cadence is stated.
Hours
- 36.6 hours per week.
Location and working arrangements
- Hybrid working.
- Work location is Oldham Council, Spindles Shopping Centre, level 6, George Street, Oldham, OL1 1HD.
Recruitment dates
- Closing date is Friday 9 October 2026; interview date is to be confirmed.
Benefits
- Benefits include annual leave with service-based increases, the option to purchase leave, a Local Government Pension Scheme, discounted gym membership, staff discounts, salary-sacrifice schemes, wellbeing support, recognition events, and peer support groups.
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