Data Manager
| Posting date: | 02 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £42,614 to £45,081 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 July 2025 |
| Location: | B1 2AX |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 411252/1 |
Summary
Could you work in our busy and fast paced Digital Chief Operating Office?
If so, this could be the job for you!
The role of Data Manager sits within the Digital Chief Operating Office function within DWP’s Digital directorate.
The Chief Operating Office (COO) plays a central and critical role in supporting the Chief Digital and Information Officer and the Digital Executive Team. COO’s teams work across a diverse set of disciplines including Financial Management, Workforce, Planning Recruitment, Capability, Spaces, Engagement and Portfolio & Delivery Assurance.
The Data Manager role provide analysis and insight on Digital’s workforce and recruitment activities to enable evidence-based decision making.
The team works with multiple data sources to provide high quality insight for a range of internal and external stakeholders and boards. You will be required to undertake business-as-usual reporting, respond to ad hoc data requests, sometimes at pace, and develop the workforce management tooling.
As a Data Manager within DWP Digital key tasks include:
- Responsibility for the collection and cleansing of workforce data from multiple data sources including the Department’s People Management Information system and DWP Digital’s own recruitment and resourcing system.
- Analysing large and complex workforce data sets to provide insight and trend information.
- Providing data for departmental and Government-wide returns, such as the creation of the annual Digital Workforce Plan and the Government Digital and Data (GDaD) returns to Central Digital and Data Office (see: https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk )
- Responding to a variety of ad hoc requests for data. Being able to quickly identify the requirements of the request and formulate the best way to respond based on the data available to you.
- Working with colleagues across Digital to continuously improve the quality of data collect and generate new insights.
- Developing dashboards and data visualisations to enable self-service access of data sets where appropriate.
- Being open to innovating with technology and work methods to improve our current ability to carry out reporting.
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