Lead analyst – Office for Data Analytics
Policy, Business Analysis, Change & Transformation

Lead analyst – Office for Data Analytics
Salary: £26,999 - £39,782 (Depending on Experience)
Hours: Full Time (36.25)
Contract: Permanent (will consider secondment and flexible working)
Location: Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Churchgate House, Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 6EU 

Role Profile

UPDATE: 9th April 2020 

Due to current circumstances, prospective applicants are advised that initially, and until further notice, this will be a home-based role, which will be reviewed as the situation changes. The successful applicant will be asked to visit a GMCA or GMFRS office at the start of their employment to be provided with ICT equipment and setup. There will be regular contact with your line manager and with various team members. Additional support will be provided, where necessary and subject to availability.  

Please also note, due to COVID-19, all interviews will be taking place virtually on Microsoft Teams or Skype. If successful on application, Hiring managers will be in contact so that you can both test the technology before the interview.

The deadline for application has been extended to 24th April.

Closing date: 24th April 23:59
Interviews W/C 11th May
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is a statutory body consisting of the ten local authorities of Greater Manchester and a directly elected Mayor. It has wide-ranging economic development, regeneration and transport functions and an ambitious agenda to make Greater Manchester a better place in which to grow up, live, work and invest.

Greater Manchester aims to be one of the top European digital cities. The best digital cities are those that understand and harness the power of their own information. The newly formed Office for Data Analytics, within our research team, will support that work. We will create better outcomes with better analytics, and better analytics with better data. That requires us to improve data usability and enhance data usage.

We are looking for an exceptional lead analyst to pursue a career with a dynamic, exciting and socially responsible employer. Sitting within the GMCA Research team, the successful candidate will help lead an evolving and diverse work programme, with an initial focus on reviewing the opportunities and barriers of opening public sector information.

The successful candidate will hold lead responsibilities within the Office of Data Analytics, as part of the GMCA Research team. Key areas of responsibility will include: leading timely analysis to inform our Local Data Review, including work across a number of partners and stakeholders; and helping to manage the next stages in the development of MappingGM, to make it the home of geospatial data in Greater Manchester.

They will deliver research projects focused around data and analytics, providing analytical rigour for internal and external customers. They will also support data analytics projects across a spectrum of policy areas, with an initial focus on open data in the public sector. Working with the wider policy and strategy teams in the GMCA and partner organisations to use evidence to support decision making. To disseminate evidence to a wide range of audiences and partners, including the delivery of training, and to ensure that this research informs Greater Manchester’s strategic objectives.

It is essential that candidates have good knowledge of current debates on the role and importance of data in the local economy and public services. Wider experience working with other organisations and sectors is also highly desirable.

We are a team with a mix of different histories, specialisms and backgrounds. We are committed to greater diversity, and we’re proud of that – it’s what makes us strong, what makes us innovative, and what helps us grow. We strongly support applications from non-academic and non-technical backgrounds.

About you:

You will have strong quantitative and qualitative research skills with a good understanding of a range of research and data visualisation methods, as well as a solid understanding of the many national, regional and local agencies involved in local policy development.

This will be complemented by strong performance capabilities and a desire to make a difference.

Through building relationships with key stakeholders in the system and use of good communication skills you will influence others to place good intelligence at the heart of decision making.

You will have experience of both qualitative and quantitative research, and would be used to working with a variety of structured and unstructured data. You will have a demonstrable track-record of working with analysts and policy leads from local authorities and central government departments, as well as working with public, private and third sector data sources. Beyond standard Office product skills, we would hope to see your knowledge and skills around data visualisation, manipulation and analysis.

You will also have a passion for building analytical confidence and capability while simultaneously creating conditions for innovation and a culture of continual learning.

Our work and about us:

Greater Manchester is one of the country's most successful city-regions. It is home to more than 2.8 million people and with an economy bigger than that of Wales or Northern Ireland. Greater Manchester is at the forefront of policy innovation and new thinking about how to transform the lives of local citizens by nurturing a world class, competitive, caring and economically sustainable place to live. It was the first city region to win a devolution agreement with the government in late 2014. On May 4th 2017 the residents of Greater Manchester voted for their first ever Mayor for Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham. This is an exciting time to be working in the city region for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

The GMCA Research team provides a research and intelligence function for multiple policy areas and cross-cutting policy themes. We inform evidence-led policy making by relevant policy teams, to transform outcomes across the city-region and position GM at the forefront of local, regional and national thinking.
The GMCA is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
To find out more about working for us please click here https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/
Employees on the redeployment register will be given priority for any vacancies in the first instance. If employees are identified as a match from the register then the vacancy may be withdrawn or put on hold pending an outcome.


Your Application

Although the position is permanent, we are very willing to consider secondment or flexible working opportunities.

Please apply with a covering letter and application form by 24th April 2020. Interviews will take place w/c 11th May 2020.

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Lead analyst – Office for Data Analytics
Salary: £26,999 - £39,782 (Depending on Experience)
Hours: Full Time (36.25)
Contract: Permanent (will consider secondment and flexible working)
Location: Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Churchgate House, Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 6EU 

Role Profile

UPDATE: 9th April 2020 

Due to current circumstances, prospective applicants are advised that initially, and until further notice, this will be a home-based role, which will be reviewed as the situation changes. The successful applicant will be asked to visit a GMCA or GMFRS office at the start of their employment to be provided with ICT equipment and setup. There will be regular contact with your line manager and with various team members. Additional support will be provided, where necessary and subject to availability.  

Please also note, due to COVID-19, all interviews will be taking place virtually on Microsoft Teams or Skype. If successful on application, Hiring managers will be in contact so that you can both test the technology before the interview.

The deadline for application has been extended to 24th April.

Closing date: 24th April 23:59
Interviews W/C 11th May
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is a statutory body consisting of the ten local authorities of Greater Manchester and a directly elected Mayor. It has wide-ranging economic development, regeneration and transport functions and an ambitious agenda to make Greater Manchester a better place in which to grow up, live, work and invest.

Greater Manchester aims to be one of the top European digital cities. The best digital cities are those that understand and harness the power of their own information. The newly formed Office for Data Analytics, within our research team, will support that work. We will create better outcomes with better analytics, and better analytics with better data. That requires us to improve data usability and enhance data usage.

We are looking for an exceptional lead analyst to pursue a career with a dynamic, exciting and socially responsible employer. Sitting within the GMCA Research team, the successful candidate will help lead an evolving and diverse work programme, with an initial focus on reviewing the opportunities and barriers of opening public sector information.

The successful candidate will hold lead responsibilities within the Office of Data Analytics, as part of the GMCA Research team. Key areas of responsibility will include: leading timely analysis to inform our Local Data Review, including work across a number of partners and stakeholders; and helping to manage the next stages in the development of MappingGM, to make it the home of geospatial data in Greater Manchester.

They will deliver research projects focused around data and analytics, providing analytical rigour for internal and external customers. They will also support data analytics projects across a spectrum of policy areas, with an initial focus on open data in the public sector. Working with the wider policy and strategy teams in the GMCA and partner organisations to use evidence to support decision making. To disseminate evidence to a wide range of audiences and partners, including the delivery of training, and to ensure that this research informs Greater Manchester’s strategic objectives.

It is essential that candidates have good knowledge of current debates on the role and importance of data in the local economy and public services. Wider experience working with other organisations and sectors is also highly desirable.

We are a team with a mix of different histories, specialisms and backgrounds. We are committed to greater diversity, and we’re proud of that – it’s what makes us strong, what makes us innovative, and what helps us grow. We strongly support applications from non-academic and non-technical backgrounds.

About you:

You will have strong quantitative and qualitative research skills with a good understanding of a range of research and data visualisation methods, as well as a solid understanding of the many national, regional and local agencies involved in local policy development.

This will be complemented by strong performance capabilities and a desire to make a difference.

Through building relationships with key stakeholders in the system and use of good communication skills you will influence others to place good intelligence at the heart of decision making.

You will have experience of both qualitative and quantitative research, and would be used to working with a variety of structured and unstructured data. You will have a demonstrable track-record of working with analysts and policy leads from local authorities and central government departments, as well as working with public, private and third sector data sources. Beyond standard Office product skills, we would hope to see your knowledge and skills around data visualisation, manipulation and analysis.

You will also have a passion for building analytical confidence and capability while simultaneously creating conditions for innovation and a culture of continual learning.

Our work and about us:

Greater Manchester is one of the country's most successful city-regions. It is home to more than 2.8 million people and with an economy bigger than that of Wales or Northern Ireland. Greater Manchester is at the forefront of policy innovation and new thinking about how to transform the lives of local citizens by nurturing a world class, competitive, caring and economically sustainable place to live. It was the first city region to win a devolution agreement with the government in late 2014. On May 4th 2017 the residents of Greater Manchester voted for their first ever Mayor for Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham. This is an exciting time to be working in the city region for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

The GMCA Research team provides a research and intelligence function for multiple policy areas and cross-cutting policy themes. We inform evidence-led policy making by relevant policy teams, to transform outcomes across the city-region and position GM at the forefront of local, regional and national thinking.
The GMCA is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
To find out more about working for us please click here https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/
Employees on the redeployment register will be given priority for any vacancies in the first instance. If employees are identified as a match from the register then the vacancy may be withdrawn or put on hold pending an outcome.


Your Application

Although the position is permanent, we are very willing to consider secondment or flexible working opportunities.

Please apply with a covering letter and application form by 24th April 2020. Interviews will take place w/c 11th May 2020.