Performance Analyst

Job title:

Performance Analyst

Company

Central Bedfordshire Council

Job description

Team: Performance Improvement – LearningJob Family: Providing – CBG9
Salary: £34,811 – £37,562 per annum pro rata
Hours: 37 hours per weekLocation: You will be expected to attend a CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month.Contract Type: Hybrid – PermanentClosing Date: 3rd September 2025Interview Date: W/C 8th September 2025About the Role:We are looking to add another permanent member to our Performance Team to lead on collecting and analysing Children Service’s performance data. If your interests and/or experiences lie in handling data and statistical analysis, then this role may be for you.You will support front line staff that work with some of our most vulnerable children and families, their managers, and senior officers, to ensure that performance and data is recognised as everyone’s responsibility. With that in mind, you must be a confident performance professional, with a collaborative, open working style to ensure that the outstanding work of our frontline staff is reflected in our performance.You will benefit from a varied and stimulating role that ranges from writing SQL reports, developing interactive and engaging Power BI reports, pulling together data and findings into written summary reports, leading on statutory returns, and becoming involved with the development and maintenance of tools used by local authorities across the country, such as School Census Returns, ChAT and the Children’s Social Care Benchmarking Tool.To be considered for interview your application will need to demonstrate that you are able to support and provide timely, accurate analysis and interpretation of qualitative and quantitative business intelligence necessary for the Directorate to make timely, relevant and strategic decisions for existing and future services and fully support national and local reporting requirements including the Department for Education, Ofsted Inspection regime and Safeguarding Boards.Knowledge of Children Social Care, SEND or Education statutory collections and the Synergy and Mosaic Database system would be highly desirable.Our OfferWe have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit ourOur aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer. We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this .Our are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Danyel Islam at danyel.islam@centralbedfordshire.gov.ukTo maintain a fair and consistent approach for applicants, it is Central Bedfordshire Council’s policy to only consider applications made via our online application system and we therefore thank you for not submitting your application offline.Our National Careers Service team offer a free weekly workshop covering CV writing and how to complete the statement sections of the Central Bedfordshire Council online application form. This MS Teams workshop is open to anyone from the UK and lasts around 1.5 hours.More information about this service can be found here:

Expected salary

£34811 – 37562 per year

Location

Bedfordshire

Job date

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 01:33:23 GMT

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