BI & Insight Analyst

Coventry City Council; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Coventry City Council is seeking a BI & Insight Analyst to join the Performance and Insights Team. This role focuses on supporting Children Social Care Services by providing data analysis and insights to enhance service performance. The successful candidate will work in a hybrid environment, contributing to evidence-based decision-making and championing diversity and inclusion within the team.

Benefits

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Knowledge of reporting and data systems.
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex issues.
• Excellent IT Skills (Power BI, SQL).

Responsibilities

• Lead on intelligence performance reporting.
• Support data understanding through linkages and visualisation.
• Work closely with services to provide insights for decision-making.

Skills

Data analysis

Reporting

Partnership working

Interpersonal skills

Critical judgement

Power BI

SQL

Job description

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Our Values

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

Our Values

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

Our Values are:

• Open and fair: We are fair, open, and transparent.
• Nurture and develop: We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
• Engage and empower: We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
• Create and innovate: We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
• Own and be accountable: We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
• Value and respect: We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.
  
  

About The Team We Are Recruiting To

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive, is accepting of all and is free from discrimination and bias.

The Insight Team's role is to question, influence and provide understanding to make life better in Coventry.

The Insight Team collects, analyses, interprets and publishes a wide range of insights about the city, and engages with residents, communities and partners to champion a culture of evidence-based decision-making across Coventry.

Activities undertaken by the Insight team include:

• Business intelligence
• Customer and location intelligence
• Engagement and consultation support
• Evaluative research
• Performance management
• Partnership working
• Providing advice and guidance on equalities and diversity issues and ensuring the Council discharges its Public Sector Equality Duty
  
  

Areas of work supported by the Insight team include:

• Children's services
• Compliments, comments and complaints
• Customer services
• Geographical information systems
• Growth and prosperity
• Housing and homelessness
• Local land and property gazetteer
• Population health management
• Social care
  
  

Please note that this is a hybrid role, requiring a minimum of 40% of your working week to be spent in the office.

What is the job role?

We are looking for a Business Intelligence and Insights Analyst to join the Performance and Insights Team with your initial focus being on supporting Children Social Care Services working within a very busy, innovative, forward-thinking team. We are working together with Children Services to bring positive change in the lives of people in the city.

The BI and Insights Analyst role will be to:

• Take a lead on specific intelligence performance reporting and insights.
• To support the council to better understand its data through enabling data linkages, modelling and visualisation.
• You will work closely with relevant services to provide intelligence and insight to make decisions to improve and strengthen their performance.
  
  

The role will also include working across the Planning and Informatics Team on different projects.

Who are we looking for?

The successful candidate will have;

• Knowledge of reporting and data systems
• knowledge of performance and reporting frameworks
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex issues and exercise critical judgement in arriving at practical solutions
• Partnership working skills
• Interpersonal and influencing skills
• Excellent IT Skills (Power BI, SQL)
  
  

You will be asked to write a personal statement when applying for this role. Please include the following information in your statement:

• Your advanced research, data analysis and ICT Skills to extract, report and present data
• Your partnership working skills and how you work with internal and external stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes
  
  

If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme - As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
  
  

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.

Interview date: Monday 9th June 2025

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies

Coventry City Council

Attached documents

• Coventry City Council Application Process.pdf
• Job Description and Person Specification.pdf

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Research, Analyst, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Government Administration

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