Data Analyst

Posting date:	04 December 2025
Salary:	£28,598 to £34,434 per year
Additional salary information:	Competitive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	21 December 2025
Location:	Coventry, One Friargate, Coventry, CV1 2GN
Company:	Coventry City Council
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	coventrycc/TP/175/11918

Summary

The Planning and Performance Directorate is at the heart of the City Council, helping us drive performance and understand how we can best meet the diverse needs of our residents and deliver effective services.

We are leading the use of data and technology to support the Council's work, exploring how improved data and technology can enhance our processes and make it easier for residents to access the support they need. The Performance and Insights Team champions a culture of better decisions using data, evidence and engagement across the city and the Council. The Performance and Insights team consists of over twenty analysts brought together from around the organisation with different backgrounds and skills to support services to deliver data-driven change.

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create an inclusive workplace culture, is accepting of all and is free from discrimination and bias.

Our Values

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

Our Values are:

• Open and fair: We are fair, open, and transparent.
• Nurture and develop: We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
• Engage and empower: We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
• Create and innovate: We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
• Own and be accountable: We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
• Value and respect: We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.

What is the job role?

We are looking for a Data Analyst to join the Performance and Insights Team and support Coventry City Council’s journey to become a data‑led organisation. Using evidence and insight, you will help drive decisions and deliver services to our residents in a city proud of its diversity and history of peace and reconciliation.

This role will strengthen our understanding of Coventry’s diverse communities, including those from migrant backgrounds, and support the work of the Migration Team. The team delivers a range of initiatives to welcome, resettle and integrate people seeking safety in the UK through protected routes, including:

• Leading on refugee resettlement and responding to future humanitarian or resettlement events, including supporting Afghan and British Nationals arriving under the ARAP and ACRS schemes
• Responsibility for the Homes for Ukraine Programme, which has seen strong public support across Coventry
• Delivering the Hong Kong BN(O) Welcome Programme, helping arrivals successfully settle in the UK

As Data Analyst you will support the Senior Business Intelligence and Insights Analyst to enable the organisation to better understand the local, regional and national landscape through intelligence, data and evidence. Key aspects of the role include:

• Requirements Gathering – engaging with colleagues and partners to understand needs
• Collaboration with Technical Teams – working closely to deliver effective solutions
• Dashboard Development – creating clear, accessible visualisations of data
• Data Analysis & Insight Generation – turning complex datasets into actionable intelligence

You will be joining a busy, innovative and forward thinking team where flexibility, passion and curiosity are essential. This is an opportunity to make a real impact by supporting newly arriving communities and helping them integrate into Coventry.

Who are we looking for?

The successful candidate will have:

• Understanding of different methodological approaches to research and data collection, with an appreciation of when to apply differing methodologies accordingly. Some experience in survey design and analysis.
• Experience of working with stakeholders and maintaining effective working relationships with internal and external providers
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to deliver at pace where data and policy are continually evolving and manage deadlines/expectations.

• Good written and verbal communication skills to clearly articulate data and evidence, tailoring to a range of audiences.

• Desirable technical skills: Knowledge and application of Power BI, Python, R, SQL, Statistical Analysis

• Experience of using: Power BI, MS excel to an advanced level.

If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme - As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

For full details on the application process, please read the attached document labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification that the Council considers to be reasonable.

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies

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About Disability Confident

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.