Job title: Information Analyst

Attributes

Experience

Essential:

  • Providing a professional service with a significant level of autonomy
  • Using a range of analytical methods to gain insight from complex data
  • Apply coding skills to access and manipulate large volumes of data from a variety of sources as well as identifying data inconsistencies and ensuring data quality
  • Experience in some of the following:
    • statistical analysis and reporting
    • data science
    • intelligence analysdata management

Desirable:

  • Developing data standards and definitions
  • Official statistics production

Education, qualifications and training

Essential:

  • Educated to SCQF Level 9 (with a subject that includes a significant numeric component)
  • Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development

Desirable:

  • Intelligence Analysis qualification

Skills and knowledge

Essential:

  • Advanced data, statistical and analytical skills
  • Experienced user of statistical, query and data management software for ETL and reporting purposes (e.g. SAS, SPSS, SQL, DAX, R, Python)
  • Previous use of business Intelligence tools (e.g. PowerBI, Tableaux)
  • Excellent data management and manipulation skills
  • Understanding of data quality issues and validation techniques.

Desirable:

  • GIS Software
  • Research experience
  • Knowledge of relevant national data sources including open data
  • Public Sector / social care experience
  • Code of Practice for Official Statistics

Key performance outcomes

Effective communication

Essential:

  • Articulate and positive communicator on a 1-1 basis and in larger groups;
  • Ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely and to adapt communication to suit different audiences.

Impact and influence

Essential: 

  • Demonstrates ability to influence at all levels;
  • Ability to give realistic advice, based on relevant, up to date and verifiable information;
  • Evidence of building positive relationships, engaging and collaborating effectively with others internally and externally.

Improvement focus

Essential:

  • Identifies gaps in performance and makes appropriate suggestions for improvements;
  • Aware of trends and changes and maintains professional knowledge and skills;
  • Uses knowledge and experience to gather and consolidate information in order to make appropriate changes and improvements.

Objective decision making

Essential:

  • Demonstrates analytical and systematic approach to problem solving;
  • Ability to make appropriate and realistic judgments, based on professional expertise, relevant, up to date and verifiable information;
  • Ability to analyse complex information.

Planning and organising

Essential:

  • Involves others where appropriate and optimises resources to achieve desired results;
  • Regularly reviews joint goals and targets and reprioritises where necessary;
  • Recognises the need to be flexible in order to meet changing priorities.

Team working

Essential:

  • Contributes to and supports the work and decisions of the team;
  • Contributes to the shared vision and purpose and shares this effectively;
  • Works collaboratively with a wide range of teams across the Care Inspectorate.

Please note – these are key performance outcomes to be used to recruit into the role. Successful applicants will be assessed against all the performance indicators used in the Performance Development Review System once established in the role.