Senior Change and Delivery Officer (Data, Performance & Business Planning)

Job Description

Corporate Services

Senior Change & Delivery Officer (Data, Performance & Business Planning)
Waverley Court

Salary: £42,717 - £50,550 per year
Hours: 36 per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Change & Delivery Officer within the Data, Performance & Business Planning Team of the Strategy & Communications Division in the City of Edinburgh Council. Working at the very heart of the Council, you will have the opportunity to make a real impact in shaping the development of the Council’s Planning & Performance Framework and the high-quality data analytics and performance information necessary to drive service improvement and make key business decisions.

Working with the team and stakeholders across the organisation you will provide the necessary expertise to support the design, implementation and embedding of the performance framework including the development of robust outcome measures, KPI’s and targets.

Using a range BI applications and analytical methodologies, you will provide the data analytics to support the framework and as the wider range of complex data analytics required to drive service improvement across the organisation.

The successful candidate will have extensive experience of performance management and business intelligence within a complex business environment. You will be an enthusiastic and driven self-starter, able to demonstrate your ability to deliver in a challenging but rewarding environment.

The job description details the responsibilities and transferable skills required across a multi-disciplinary team and is therefore generic, while the person specification details the key skills, knowledge and expertise required for this specific post.

• Extensive experience in developing and imbedding performance frameworks in a complex organisation including the development of outcome-based measures, KPI’s and targets
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
• Significant experience in data preparation, data analytics and statistics
• An understanding and experience of a range of business intelligence tools such as, (but not limited to), Business Objects, Power BI. and Advanced Microsoft Excel skills are essential.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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