Performance & Information Officer

Job Title: Performance & Information Officer

Location: Hybrid - WFH and one day per week in Kettering Office

Rate of Pay: £270 per day Umbrella / £207.69 per day PAYE

Working Hours: Monday to Friday - 37 hours

Type: Temporary Contract for 3 months

Opus People Solutions are working with North Northamptonshire Council to recruit for a Performance & Information Officer. Working under the direction of a Senior Performance Analyst, this post will analyse data relating to business activity around Children's Social Care and Early Help (delivered by Northamptonshire Children's Trust), Education including SEND and Early Years. The analysis will be used to evaluate, track and monitor the outcomes and performance of service delivery.

Main Responsibilities:

1. To develop, maintain and streamline systems for collecting, verifying and updating datasets, to ensure the provision of relevant and up to date information about service trends in order to inform policy, effective planning, strategic direction and delivery of service.
2. To monitor the timely and accurate submission of national and corporate statutory returns.
3. To provide a platform of statistical evidence for management decision making; to work with Team/Service Managers to provide them with the information they need through analysis, interpretation, hypothesis testing and consensus building to inform their decision making.
4. Analysing data from multiple sources, ensuring production of reports and datasets to meet the requirements of service leads.
5. To act as a source of expert intelligence for all levels of staff and external agencies, providing advice and support to staff and managers with respect to data interpretation to ensure that they understand, accept and can act on evidence drawn from management information.
6. To design, create and analyse themed business insight packs to assist commissioning partners in directing service delivery.

Experience:

• Previous experience of providing and analysing information management reports.
• Experience of manipulating, joining and analysing large datasets.
• Experienced in using a computerised database. This includes knowledge of data structures, maintenance and relationship with systems.
• Experience of liaising and influencing across management and peers.

For more information or to process your application for this role, please apply online now.