Data Analyst - Children's and Education Transformation

Are you a data professional passionate about using your skills to improve lives? The London Borough of Hackney is looking for a Data Analyst to support our Children & Education Transformation Portfolio.

This is a critical role where your insights will directly inform strategic decision-making and help improve outcomes for children, young people, and families across the borough. You will use data to tell compelling stories about the experiences of Hackney's residents, helping us understand service performance and the impact of our transformation initiatives.

About the role

Key Responsibilities

Working within the Children's & Education Transformation Portfolio, you will:

• Analyse Complex Data: Use a range of local and national sources to undertake complex analysis, identifying trends, patterns, and areas of disproportionality to support our strategic decision making.

• Visualise Insights: Design and maintain dynamic dashboards (using tools like Qlik and Google Looker Studio) and produce clear reports that translate complex data into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders.

• Drive Transformation: Model the potential impact of service changes and support the development of performance frameworks to measure the success of transformation projects.

• Champion Quality: Act as a data expert, driving improvements in data quality and ensuring compliance with GDPR and information governance standards.

• Collaborate: Work with project managers, directors, and frontline staff to understand data requirements and present findings confidently to influence decisions.

Do you have experience in SQL?, We are looking for a highly motivated individual with a strong performance record in a comparable setting. You should be committed to our Systemic, Trauma-Informed, and Anti-Racist (STAR) practice model.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Data Expertise: Significant experience extracting, manipulating, and analysing large, sensitive datasets using SQL and advanced Excel / Google Sheets.

• Visualisation: Advanced skills in data visualisation tools such as Qlik.

• Communication: Excellent ability to explain complex data concepts and "data stories" to diverse audiences, from frontline practitioners to senior leaders.

• Sector Knowledge: Experience working within local government or children's services (social care/education) is highly valued, including knowledge of key indicators like SEND, safeguarding as well as subject matter area statutory reporting.

• Qualifications: A degree-level qualification or equivalent by experience.

• Following on from our Anti Racist Summit in October 2023 we remain committed to dismantling systemic racism, discrimination, injustice and making anti-racism a foundation of our practice.

• We provide wide-ranging and excellent training and development opportunities; we will help you to develop excellent practice, leading to career advancement at your own pace.

• We are an innovative borough where we collaborate to support change for the children and families we work for and for each other.

Ready to build the future with us?

If you're ready to move beyond the ordinary and do work that truly matters, we want to hear from you.