Job title: Strategic Data Officer

Attributes

Experience

Essential:

  • Working with large datasets
  • Experience in some of the following
  • Working with large datasets
  • Statistical analysis and reporting
  • Data management
  • Identifying and resolving data quality issues
  • Performance measurement and reporting
  • Experience of working with external/internal contacts at all levels

Desirable:

  • Experience of working within the social care sector.
  • Experience of working with confidential and sensitive data.
  • Knowledge of and experience in using the Care Inspectorate’s ICT systems (especially in a strategic context).

Education, qualifications and training

Essential:

  • Educated to HNC level or equivalent.

Skills and knowledge

Essential:

  • Competent and experienced in the use of MS office packages, particularly in the use of Excel and Word.
  • Experienced in working with data to produce accurate, meaningful and well-presented tables and charts of data.
  • Effective written and oral communicator.
  • Well developed interpersonal skills.
  • Good literacy skills.
  • Understanding of data quality issues.

Desirable:

  • Experience in the use of Excel functions such as lookup formulas and pivot tables.
  • Experience of sampling and survey design.

Key performance outcomes

Effective communication

Essential:

  • Articulate and positive communicator on a 1-1 basis and in larger groups of all levels both within and external to the organisation.
  • Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely and to adapt communication to suit different audiences.

Impact and influence

Essential:

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.
  • Uses knowledge and experience to gather and consolidate information in order to make appropriate changes and improvements.
  • The ability and willingness to learn new skills quickly.

Planning and organising

Essential:

  • The ability to manage workloads under pressure to tight deadlines.
  • The ability to work autonomously with the minimum of supervision
  • 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.

Flexibility

Essential:

  • Demonstrates a flexible, positive approach to work.
  • Listens to feedback and ideas from people and takes appropriate and considered action.
  • Adapts quickly in a fast-paced environment, adjusting priorities as required.
  • Understand where a flexible approach is required.

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 and external agencies.

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.