Analytics Consultant

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📍Remote - United Kingdom

Summary

Join Version 1's Analytics team, a multidisciplinary group working primarily in the public sector to improve society. The team supports initiatives in education, social care, and more. As an analytics professional, you will deliver excellent data analysis and visualization services, working with clients and their employees. Your responsibilities will depend on client needs and your skills, potentially including building dashboards, writing SQL queries, and analyzing data. You will collaborate with others to develop insights and influence strategic decisions. You will also be an active member of the analytics community of practice, participating in training and development activities.

Requirements

  • SQL. You have used more advanced SQL (for example, complex joins between combinations of tables and CTEs, analytic functions, regular expressions, scripting and/or arrays/nested data) for data analysis
  • Data visualisation. You are an experienced user of a data visualisation tool (e.g. Looker Studio, Looker, Power BI, Tableau, Amazon QuickSight) to visualise data and can describe the data stories this has enabled you to tell
  • Enabling data driven decision-making. You have a proven track record of breaking down the barriers that prevent a team from doing this effectively. Sometimes you have done this through application of your own technical skills. Sometimes you have delivered this through empowering and influencing others to bring skills and experience that complement your own
  • Building and managing relationships. You can build and maintain strong relationships, demonstrating strong emotional intelligence and recognising the different needs of the diverse range of team members and clients. You have experience mediating and mending relationships and managing expectations of clients and stakeholders
  • Communication. You have strong listening, verbal and written communication skills, which you can leverage to build relationships and facilitate effectively, asking the right questions to ensure conversations remain focused. You have experience communicating sensitive messages, telling nuanced data stories and navigating difficult conversations, steering these towards positive outcomes
  • Adaptability. You can adjust your approach, including technical decisions, leadership approach and role to suit different client contexts and team needs

Responsibilities

  • Deliver excellent data analysis and visualisation services for clients
  • Build dashboards in a tool like Looker Studio, Power BI or Amazon QuickSight
  • Write SQL queries to transform data into a form useful for further analysis or visualisation
  • Use SQL (or optionally Python) to analyse data
  • Work with others with different roles and skillsets to develop meaningful insights that transform their decision making – for example about government policy, digital product strategy or user experience
  • Define, analyse and visualise a government digital service’s KPIs and goals (known as ‘performance analysis’ in the UK public sector)
  • Influence and inspire clients to take informed strategic decisions about their approach to analytics – advising on tools, how to make data available, outcomes, governance, people, skills etc
  • Be an active member of the analytics community of practice – taking part in training and development activities and sharing your own skills and experience
  • Depending on your skills and preferences, you might take on additional coaching and training responsibilities such as becoming a performance coach, providing informal on the job support or delivering more formal training activities

Benefits

  • Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
  • Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
  • Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
  • Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
  • Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more
  • Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
  • Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
  • Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform
  • Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes

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