Senior Analyst

Beighton; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Sheffield City Council’s Performance and Analysis Service (PAS) is seeking a Senior Analyst to help understand delivery and performance across the city’s children’s services. You will review the current data suite, meet with the service to agree reporting requirements, and develop KPIs to support delivery.

You’ll join an experienced team that provides high-quality data and analysis to clients, communicating complex information to diverse audiences.

Qualifications

• Strong IT and analytical skills including understanding data flows and automated reports.
• Ability to translate customer requirements into workable reporting tools.
• Desirable knowledge of children’s services data.
• Willingness to work with clients and partners.

Responsibilities

• Review the current data suite and reporting requirements.
• Develop key performance indicators to support delivery across the city.
• Present data in a clear way to a variety of audiences.
• Collaborate with PAS and partner teams to provide high-quality data and analysis.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Data extraction

Reporting tools

Independent work

Stakeholder engagement

Creativity

Job description

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, skilled, highly motivated and reliable individual to join the Performance and Analysis Service (PAS) in Sheffield City Council. The focus of the post is to assist the Sheffield Community Youth Service in understanding the delivery and performance across the city and helping to provide evidence on the impact of work. This will include reviewing the current data suite, meeting the service to agree reporting requirements and developing key performance indicators to support delivery. This is anexciting opportunity to make a lasting positive impact on the lives of children and young people in Sheffield. This project will require a high level of analytical skills and an ability to present and communicate complex information to a variety of different audiences.

PAS works closely in partnership with different service teams in children’s services, with ICT and corporate teams in SCC, as well as with external bodies such as schools and Health services. As a Senior Analyst in PAS, you will be part of an experienced, supportive team that works together to provide high quality data and analysis services to our clients.

About you

As a Senior Analyst, you will need to have:

• An interest and enthusiasm for improving outcomes for children and young people in the city;
• A willingness to work closely with our clients and partners – good communication skills;
• Strong IT and analytical skills – including an understanding of how information flows through databases and how to extract data and create automated reports;
• An ability to translate customer requirements into workable reporting tools;
• Basic understanding of the benefits/limitations of data and of statistical analysis;
• An ability to analyse, interpret and present data;
• A flare for creativity and problem solving;
• An ability to work independently;
• Knowledge or experience of working with specific children’s services data is desirable but not essential.

Location: hybrid (40% office-based in Sheffield, currently in Howden House). For any questions about the post, please contact Dan Rice ([e-mail] – or 0114 27 36151).

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on ourSheff news page.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyoneand where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.