Advanced Analyst
| Posting date: | 26 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £40,735 to £43,516 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 October 2025 |
| Location: | Papworth Everard, CB23 3RG |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | Ref/131330/7320 |
Summary
We are looking to recruit 2 Advanced Analysts to join the newly formed Policy, Performance & Intelligence Team at Cambridgeshire County Council. A team of 50 individuals who provide data, analysis insight and policy expertise to support the operational management and strategic planning of services. Our Advanced Analysts play an important role in ensuring the council can harness the potential of data, using evidence and best practice to support and inform the development of policy, strategy, plans and budgets, and in turn deliver the Corporate Strategy for Cambridgeshire County Council.
The first of these roles is offered on a permanent basis and will be supporting the Adults, Health and Commissioning Directorate, and will work to support the operational management and strategic planning of services.
The second role is being offered as fixed term for 2 years and will specifically support the delivery of work for Community Safety partnerships and internal community safety colleagues, by analysing a wide range of data from across the partnership landscape.
Please indicate in your supporting statement if you have a preference for either role and how your skills and experience align to the role(s). In your supporting statement, please refer to the person specification, as applicants will be shortlisted against the required experience, knowledge, and skills of the role.
Please note: We will be conducting assessments and interviews for both roles together and they will be offered based on the skills relevant to each role.
We are a family-friendly employer and will be happy to negotiate on working arrangements to achieve a good work / life balance. The role is being advertised internally to CCC with the option of flexibility on working hours. The fixed term community safety role can be offered as an internal secondment.
For more information or an informal discussion regarding the Adults, Health and Commissioning role, please contact Anna Slack, Performance & Intelligence Manager (Adults, Health and Commissioning) at Anna.Slack@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
For more information or an informal discussion regarding the Community Safety role, please contact Leigh Roberts, Performance & Intelligence Manager (Communities & Demography) at Leigh.Roberts@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
Please note: The application period for this role closes on 4th October 2025. We expect the assessment and interview to take place on the 7th October and will be in contact with successfully shortlisted candidates on the 6th October.
Shortlisted candidates will be expected to complete a data analysis exercise on the day of the interview. This will be conducted in person and further details for successfully shortlisted candidates will be shared in the communication on the 6th October.
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
What will you be doing?As a Senior Analyst, you will be responsible for providing data, insight and analysis to the service. Your role will include:
- Overseeing the extraction and combining of operational datasets
- Overseeing projects to provide robust, timely and accurate analysis
- Working closely with the service to understand their needs and respond to requests
- Using your in-depth knowledge of the services you support, their policies and practice as well as the underlying Management Information systems that they use
- Overseeing the provision of insight reports and benchmarking information
- Supporting the data provision for CQC assurance visits/ Supporting the community Safety Partnership by producing timely analysis and annual strategic assessments
- Working with key stakeholders to plan and prioritise work
- Presenting analysis, insights and findings to a variety of stakeholders
- Visualising data to help non-data users to understand key insights
Can you help data make a difference?
Are you ambitious, innovative, good with data and passionate with an enthusiasm for supporting evidence led decision making. If so, we may have the role you’ve been searching for!
We are looking for an individual with strong technical skills, who has a sound understanding of a range of data sources and can practically apply those skills to embed new data solutions. You will have experience of overseeing projects and supporting others, as well as excellent organisational skills.
Good communication skills, both oral and written, are essential for this role, as the post holder will be required to present complex and sometimes technical information in appropriate forms for a wide range of internal and external audiences.
You will have relevant previous experience in a similar field. High level of competence with Power BI, data analysis, and specialist data analytical software are also desirable. The successful applicant will be well supported to further develop their subject knowledge and technical skillset.
About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
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https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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