Job 1: Adult Social Care - temporary (up to 2 years to cover a project)

Enjoy working with data? Happy to analyse data and draw conclusions?  Enjoy helping people solve problems using your knowledge, skills and experience? Then, we want to hear from you! We are looking to fill a new and exciting role in the Intelligence and Performance Service in Kirklees Council.  You will be responsible for handling, analysing and interpreting large and complex datasets within the Adult Services Intelligence function to support intelligence-led decision making within Adult Social Care services and functions. You will also be a data translator and be confident in communicating with both internal and external customers.  You will work closely with other services and external partners to transform data into intelligence and insights to help solve problems, understand what difference we are making to adults and older people and help our organisation to become more efficient and effective. 

There will be opportunities for you to explore a wide range of datasets and develop and utilise data visualisation.  You will have the autonomy to explore new ways of doing things more efficiently and design intelligence products that are fit for purpose to inform decision making and support a culture of continuous improvement. 

If you’re interested in this role and would like to discuss it prior to application, please contact helen.bewsher@kirklees.gov.uk. 

Job 2: Corporate Services - permanent

Enjoy working with data? Happy to analyse data and draw conclusions?  Enjoy helping people solve problems using your knowledge, skills & experience? Then, we want to hear from you! We are looking to fill a new and exciting role in the Intelligence & Performance Service in Kirklees Council.  You will be responsible for handling & interrogating large and complex datasets that are held within our corporate services such as HR, Procurement & Finance as well as data relating to council-wide activity such as access, contacts and open data. You will also be a data translator & be confident in communicating with both internal & external customers.  You will work closely with other services and external partners to transform data into intelligence and insights to help solve problems, understand what difference we are making to our customers and help our organisation to become more efficient and effective. 

We will give you the freedom to explore datasets, liaise with customers and develop visualisation techniques in the organisation.  There will be opportunities for you to delve into our corporate systems, extract datasets, follow your own key lines of enquiry, explore new technology & develop new ways of doing things more efficiently.  You will have the autonomy to design intelligence products that are fit for purpose and inform decision making in order to support a culture of continuous improvement.  We will offer you the chance to work across all our teams in the service so you gain a broad knowledge into intelligence work for different parts of the organisation. 

If you’re interested in this role and would like to discuss it prior to application, please contact anna.bowtell@kirklees.gov.uk. 

We will support your professional development and give you access to modern intelligence and analytical tools such as Tableau, so you can grow and achieve great things.  We have super people in our existing teams, flexible working arrangements, a generous pension scheme and annual leave entitlement of 27.5 days a year [plus public holidays].

If you feel you have the drive and ambition to succeed in this role then we would love to hear from you.

Kirklees is set in the heart of West Yorkshire with two major centers of Huddersfield and Dewsbury. Well placed for transport links, the North's leading cities, including Leeds and Manchester, can easily be reached within half an hour. Kirklees Council is at the start of an exciting journey to become intelligence-led, to inform and support the delivery of the Kirklees Outcomes. Our Intelligence and Performance Service is a multi-disciplinary team consisting of research, consultation, intelligence, performance and data analytics professionals who support and promote intelligence and insight informed decisions across the Council and partners.

To apply for a temporary job as a secondment you must be a substantive employee of the Council with over 6 months continuous service and have successfully completed your probation period.  Applications for secondments will only be accepted if accompanied by a completed Secondment Permission Form, signed by your manager.  If you are refused permission to apply for a secondment please contact HR Recruitment to register the refusal.

In order to be short-listed for this job please demonstrate how you meet the Person Checklist as detailed on the attached Job Profile. CVs will also be accepted as long as they include a supporting statement which demonstrates how you meet the requirements of the role.