Job Purpose

This role will be responsible for carrying out data extraction, manipulation, research, analysis, and interpretation of data to provide meaningful future thinking workforce analysis. This will enable insight for Directors and Heads of Service that will support well informed, strategic decision making and support delivery of the workforce strategy, a key building block of the organisation strategy.

Key deliverables will be co-created, working alongside our People Business Partners. This role provides the data, evidence and insight to help plan the council's workforce of the future. Working with a CIPD framework, the plans created as a result of the evidence will focus on our workforce from five different lenses: right size, right shape, right people, right skills and right cost.

Initially working on a function by function basis, plans will be consolidated, showing the overarching future of our workforce, to help determine the level of change required, in that time.

This role will also contribute to the overall performance of our existing people plans through the creation of performance reporting covering vital aspects of the employee journey, change management as well expanding into our digital performance (both internal and external).

The workforce planning analytics lead will also play a pivotal role, ensuring that ECC gets the most value out of people analytics, able to prioritise workload and manage stakeholders.