Senior Insight and Strategy Officer RBKC614491

Job Summary:

Salary range: £49,854 - £56,565 per annum
Work location: London 
Hours per week: 36  
Contract type: Permanent 
Closing date: 30th April 2024 
Interview date: Week commencing 6th May 2024

About Us:

Using data and insight to drive change and strategies.

In Kensington and Chelsea, we put residents and communities at the heart of decision-making, working in partnership with them to provide quality services that are responsive, effective and efficient. We are committed to embedding lessons from the Grenfell tragedy and using these to drive the wider transformation of the council and its services. Data – and the actionable insights we draw from it – drive our strategic decision-making and our future corporate plans and change. We are ambitious to become a greener, safer and fairer borough.

The Role:

In our Corporate Strategy team, we work with the whole Council to utilise data and insight to support strategic decision making, drive change and improve the Council’s services and performance. As a Senior Insight and Strategy Officer, you will have a broad portfolio of work working alongside functions and teams across the organisation.

As the Senior Insight Officer in the team, we will be looking to you to take a leading role in the design and delivery of insight projects and performance reporting. This will include providing support and advice to our other analysts, and co-ordinating the efforts of the analytical resource.

You will be involved with both the technical and strategic aspects of the Corporate Strategy team’s analytical work. In addition to taking a robust and creative approach to data analysis, you will be developing the wider strategic narrative around your findings and creating engaging visual outputs that convey complex concepts in a clear and simple way.  You will work collaboratively both within the corporate strategy team and with other stakeholders, building strong relationships and becoming recognised as a creative problem solver and someone who delivers.

The Corporate Strategy team work alongside the Grenfell Partnerships team and we collectively have responsibility for corporate change and transformation. This role will provide opportunities to get involved in the work of both teams, ensuring that learning from Grenfell shapes the organisation’s approach to change and transformation.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information

About You:

We’re looking for someone with excellent analytical skills, who is confident at taking a leading role in collaborative working. You must have a creative approach to problem solving, and be skilled in ‘story telling’ with the ability to communicate analysis in an engaging and impactful way. You be comfortable working at pace, across a range of different projects and areas, bringing together a number of different threads into a coherent narrative. A creative approach to problem-solving will be essential. With some skills in Power BI, GIS and Excel, you’ll be able to deploy a wide range of analysis and data visualisation techniques.

In return, you can look forward to a package that includes a competitive salary, a high-quality pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays.

Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.