Performance and Data Analyst

Chorley Council & South Ribble Council; South Ribble, Chorley; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job description

About The Role

Role: Performance and Data Analyst

Location: Chorley and South Ribble

Contract: Full time (36.25 hours per week) / Permanent

Salary: £33,366 - £37,938

Closing Date: 23 April 2025

Are you a dynamic individual that’s passionate about using data and performance management to drive continuous improvement within organisations? As a Performance and Data Analyst, you will be the driving force behind both Chorley Council and South Ribble Council's success, ensuring we can confidently deliver outstanding outcomes to our residents as identified in the Corporate Strategies.

In this role, you will establish strong and lasting business relationships with services and senior managers. Using a data-based approach and deep understanding of service level delivery, you will be a catalyst for continuous organisational improvement by providing strategic insight and supporting service level decision-making. The role will also be pivotal in embedding and maintaining our Shared Performance Management Framework, ensuring data quality and strong corporate oversight.

What you’ll be getting up to

• To develop the Shared Performance Management Framework for Chorley Council and South Ribble Council.
• Collaborate with the Business Intelligence team to maintain data quality and identify opportunities for data utilisation.
• Proactively research, collate and analyse data and intelligence to inform organisational and partnership performance improvement.
• Advise officers, managers, and senior leaders on opportunities to drive performance management and improvement.
• Support all aspects of robust corporate oversight including risk management.
• Continuously improve how performance is monitored and reported to stakeholders.
• To lead on specific projects and initiatives including the improvement and development of shared systems and processes.

Who we’re looking for

• Experience of performance monitoring and reporting.
• Experience of performance management and improvement.
• Experience of advising senior officers and members on approaches to performance improvement.
• Experience of data analysis and intelligence.
• Experience of analysing complex information and utilising it to inform data-based decision making.

Our Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown).
• Hybrid/agile working from day one.
• Local Government pension.
• Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments.
• Cashback website access for savings on brands you love.
• Volunteering days.
• Free parking.
• Car Allowance.

Many of our colleagues work flexibly for us. We’re always open to conversations around different working arrangements. If you’re interested in part-time, compressed hours or any other working arrangement, please get in touch with us through the “Contact Us” form on our careers website.

About Us

Chorley Council is dedicated to providing first-class services and promoting the well-being of the local community. Our staff are our greatest resource, at the heart of everything we do, and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services for our residents. At Chorley Council, we’re always striving to make our borough the best to live, work and visit.

Working Together

We share a number of our services with South Ribble Borough Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back-end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separate strategies and corporate plans.

Additional information

Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date.

Equal Opportunities

We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices.

We’re committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the "Contact Us" page on our website.

If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.