Senior Data Analyst
| Posting date: | 04 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £38,860 to £46,750 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £38,860 min - £42,765 max.? London: £42,750 min - £46,750? max.? Plus an analysts' allowance of:? £4,440 for analysts without a relevant Masters? Or £6,270 for analysts with a relevant Masters. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 July 2024 |
| Location: | Manchester |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 359810/4 |
Summary
We analyse a wealth of data and design models to identify the most effective ways of delivering high speed broadband and mobile infrastructure and establish how much public funding is required. We also evaluate past and present interventions to learn from them.
Examples of the questions we use analysis to answer:
- How can we forecast the pace at which our programmes deliver fibre to disadvantaged communities?
- How can we design and target interventions to minimise subsidising fibre that the private sector would have built anyway?
- How can we collate a broad range of internal and external datasets, to create a single, rich, consistent view of current and future broadband coverage in the UK?
Working in BDUK, an executive agency of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, offers brilliant opportunities: you’ll have a diverse workload, access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, experience working across government agencies, and exposure to our most senior leaders.
We are recruiting two senior analyst roles in BDUK: one on Demand Side Interventions (covering BDUK’s hub and voucher programmes), and one on Strategic Modelling (covering all BDUK’s programmes).
The Demand Side Interventions role will have responsibilities for:
- Building constructive relationships with a range of customers who design and implement Demand Side interventions, and building analytical solutions (whether dashboards, reports, or anything else) so that these programmes can be delivered effectively and efficiently, with a strong evidence base for all decisions. Special focus on communicating complex pictures in data and analysis clearly, and use of dashboarding and data visualisation tools.
The Strategic Modelling role will have responsibilities for:
- Developing BDUK’s large scale Orchestra model, built in R, which applies network routing algorithms over the UK’s 30million premises to assess and cost different potential fibre networks. This includes researching new algorithms; implementing and testing improvements to the model; testing the model's results and assumptions; feeding results back to customers and making sure the model is applicable for its customers and implementing good modelling practice for such a complex analytical model.
- Acting as a subject matter expert for geospatial data analysis, finding new ways of working.