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Data Administrator

Employer
The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Council
Location
Kensington and Chelsea, London (Greater)
Salary
£25,833 - £29,796 per annum
Closing date
25 Mar 2020

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Sector
Corporate Services, Administration, IT
Contract Type
Contract

About Us:

Working as part of Children’s Services will provide a challenging and rewarding career. We have high ambitions for the children and young people of Kensington and Chelsea. We have formed a bi-borough Children’s Services team with colleagues from Westminster City Council. Our services, which include education, family services and safeguarding, have been rated Outstanding by Ofsted, and our drive to be the best doesn’t stop there.  By working with us, you will have the opportunity to make a difference to young people in one of the world’s most diverse cities.
If you would like to play a part in this unique team, please take a look at the vacancies below. 

The Role:

The position available is a fixed term contract until 31st March 2021

RBKC Data Services supply and maintain a complex database to capture the progression of all 100,000 teenagers from school to post 16 learning. Young people’s learning status is recorded from aged 13 to age 19. 

The RBKC Data Services team supports 8 Local authorities to supply the detailed data on a daily basis, and manages a number of sub databases with specific functions for sub cohorts. 

The data team includes 1 data officer and 1 data administrator led by a data team leader. The team delivers the operational plan to manage the data and provide the reports required to stakeholders. The team leader oversees the operational management and supports the data team to deliver it. 

For more information about the role, please see the full Job Description

About You:

The Data Administrator should have strong organisational and communication skills as well as a good understanding of the use of data using query and improvements tools.  

You must have excellent ICT skills to include Excel and Word, plus experience of using email. You must also have excellent attention to detail and a good level of numeracy.

Role Requirements:

  • To support the Data Team Leader in providing management reports as required through the interrogation and extraction of data sets from current databases
  • To provide the first point of telephone contact for the system users, to include offering information about CCIS and Management Information (MI)
  • To co-ordinate and collate regular monitoring of MI returns, ensuring that the National Customer Caseload Information System (NCCIS) website is updated on a monthly and quarterly basis
  • To support meetings, including calling, preparing papers, minute taking, reporting and following up the agreed actions
  • To organise and maintain an MI and CCIS administrative system, enabling all documentation to be collated, managed and filed appropriately
  • To support the development and training of managers and system users
  • To collate MI and prepare spreadsheets and charts as required
  • To liaise with borough managers and other staff on variety of issues as required
  • To compile reports using data from spreadsheets and from the client database 

The duties and responsibilities outlined in this job profile are indicative of the role; However, they are not exhaustive and may be subject to change. In addition, you will be required to undertake other reasonable duties as directed by your manager.

We work in partnership with Hampshire County Council (HCC) who deliver many transactional services on our behalf. Although most communications will be from HCC, all selection and appointment decisions will be made by RBKC. Certain services are shared across more than one Council area to nearby neighbouring Authorities. This enhances delivery and reduces costs. Your recruitment information will advise if your remit extends beyond RBKC.

We will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.

We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.

We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.

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