Schools Data & Systems Officer
| Posting date: | 06 May 2026 |
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| Salary: | £37,280.00 to £39,152.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 May 2026 |
| Location: | Halifax, West Yorkshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Calderdale Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | CC818 |
Summary
To manage, develop, and support management information systems across Education, Inclusion and Learning Children’s Services, ensuring accurate data, statutory compliance, and effective insights that support education and safeguarding objectives.
This is an exciting time to join the Corporate Performance and Business Intelligence Team at Calderdale Council, as the launch of the new Vision 2034 driving improvement in line with our aspirations and budget and will help shape the future council.
We are looking to appoint an experienced person with a proven track record of schools data, systems information and a good understanding of data extraction, analysis, presentation, visualisation and publication.
Any successful candidate will be given full support to integrate into the team and organisation, by friendly and knowledgeable colleagues.
The main duties of the role include:
Work with the service area to plan, design, create, amend, verify reports.
Provide Project Management for effective project delivery, system installations.
Develop and distribute effective communications using a range of tools, in order to educate, engage and inform the service in the use and maintenance of Educational data.
Maintain robust data and system adhering to GDPR Policy and Procedures. Develop and maintain an information sharing agreement with schools and external partners.
Review the current reporting offering within MRI to ensure that it meets the needs of the Council, undertake a gap analysis of the additional reporting required to meet the needs of the Education, Inclusion and Learning Children’s Services, within Calderdale as a whole.
Develop relationships with teams and services to ensure system is used to its full capacity.
Utilise MS 365 to its full potential in support of the MRI system.
To have a working knowledge of data warehousing with the medium-term plan of inputting the Education, Inclusion and Learning Children’s Services, data into the corporate data warehouse.
Support and development of Directorate responses that will be required for external inspections, internal self-assessments and completion of statutory returns e.g. Ofsted/SEND Inspection.
Support Directors, Assistant Directors/Heads of Service and Senior Managers in the establishment of directorate priorities and the development of new systems and processes that will improve performance using recording tools and functionality available.
Clean, validate, and quality-check school data collected for local authority level purposes; assist schools with statutory data submissions (e.g. School Census, end of Key Stage assessments, Exclusions Attendance and SEND. Utilising the system to provide best value for money for the organisation.
Generate and analyse management information on school performance, participation statistics, and attendance trends; prepare monthly and quarterly reports for internal and council officers.
To have a working knowledge WONDE, B2B and other file transfer systems.
To have a working knowledge of MS Power BI, SQL and PLSQL and understanding of Artificial intelligence and Relational Database and Data Warehousing / Lakes.
You would be expected to maintain high standards of customer care in the context of the Council’s Core Values, to uphold the Equality and Diversity Policy and to participate in training activities necessary to this post. Take personal responsibility for your own health & safety and that of colleagues. You would also be expected to support digital engagement and share expertise to build capability across the wider organisation and with external partners.
For further information about the role please contact Gail Edge Performance and Business Intelligence Manager on 07849 308738 during normal office hours.
Closing Date: Wednesday 20th May 2026
Interview Date: Wednesday 27th May 2026
As part of our Vision https://www.calderdale.gov.uk/vision/ we aim to be a talented, resilient and inclusive community. We welcome applications from all and offer a variety of flexible working / job share opportunities.
This is an exciting time to join the Corporate Performance and Business Intelligence Team at Calderdale Council, as the launch of the new Vision 2034 driving improvement in line with our aspirations and budget and will help shape the future council.
We are looking to appoint an experienced person with a proven track record of schools data, systems information and a good understanding of data extraction, analysis, presentation, visualisation and publication.
Any successful candidate will be given full support to integrate into the team and organisation, by friendly and knowledgeable colleagues.
The main duties of the role include:
Work with the service area to plan, design, create, amend, verify reports.
Provide Project Management for effective project delivery, system installations.
Develop and distribute effective communications using a range of tools, in order to educate, engage and inform the service in the use and maintenance of Educational data.
Maintain robust data and system adhering to GDPR Policy and Procedures. Develop and maintain an information sharing agreement with schools and external partners.
Review the current reporting offering within MRI to ensure that it meets the needs of the Council, undertake a gap analysis of the additional reporting required to meet the needs of the Education, Inclusion and Learning Children’s Services, within Calderdale as a whole.
Develop relationships with teams and services to ensure system is used to its full capacity.
Utilise MS 365 to its full potential in support of the MRI system.
To have a working knowledge of data warehousing with the medium-term plan of inputting the Education, Inclusion and Learning Children’s Services, data into the corporate data warehouse.
Support and development of Directorate responses that will be required for external inspections, internal self-assessments and completion of statutory returns e.g. Ofsted/SEND Inspection.
Support Directors, Assistant Directors/Heads of Service and Senior Managers in the establishment of directorate priorities and the development of new systems and processes that will improve performance using recording tools and functionality available.
Clean, validate, and quality-check school data collected for local authority level purposes; assist schools with statutory data submissions (e.g. School Census, end of Key Stage assessments, Exclusions Attendance and SEND. Utilising the system to provide best value for money for the organisation.
Generate and analyse management information on school performance, participation statistics, and attendance trends; prepare monthly and quarterly reports for internal and council officers.
To have a working knowledge WONDE, B2B and other file transfer systems.
To have a working knowledge of MS Power BI, SQL and PLSQL and understanding of Artificial intelligence and Relational Database and Data Warehousing / Lakes.
You would be expected to maintain high standards of customer care in the context of the Council’s Core Values, to uphold the Equality and Diversity Policy and to participate in training activities necessary to this post. Take personal responsibility for your own health & safety and that of colleagues. You would also be expected to support digital engagement and share expertise to build capability across the wider organisation and with external partners.
For further information about the role please contact Gail Edge Performance and Business Intelligence Manager on 07849 308738 during normal office hours.
Closing Date: Wednesday 20th May 2026
Interview Date: Wednesday 27th May 2026
As part of our Vision https://www.calderdale.gov.uk/vision/ we aim to be a talented, resilient and inclusive community. We welcome applications from all and offer a variety of flexible working / job share opportunities.
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