Senior Analytical Officer - Bristol, United Kingdom - Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills

Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills
Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills
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1 month ago

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Salary:

- £40,642 - £41,048- £40,642 per annum. Rising to £41,048 per annum on successful completion of probation.


Job grade:


  • Senior Executive Officer
  • B1 APT
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • OFSTED
  • Finance, Property and Commercial
    Type of role:
  • Planning
  • Risk Management
  • Other
    Working pattern:
  • Fulltime, Job share
    Number of jobs available:
  • 3Contents
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Location

  • 2 Rivergate, Bristol or Piccadilly Gate, ManchesterAbout the job

Job summary:


This post is part of the RASAF team and will have direct management responsibility for one or more team members.

The post holder will work closely with the RASAF team leader for their remit, along with colleagues in Data & Insight, Policy, Finance and Ofsted's regions, to support planning and delivery.

The primary purpose of the role is to assist the RASAF team leader to:

  • produce accurate inspection forecasts for one or more remits in a clear and transparent way.
- select the providers that are due an inspection at the right time to ensure Ofsted meets its statutory and policy commitments and its commitments to other government departments.
- manage a database and/or the risk assessment of providers as part of the selection process and/or produce management information to support delivery of inspections.


Job description:

The key responsibilities of the role are outlined below. However, this is an overview of the role and is not exhaustive. Ofsted reserves the right to assign other duties commensurate with the
B1 grade as required.

  • To manage a team, ensuring that it delivers its planned outcomes from the divisional and corporate plans to agreed deadlines and highquality standards.
  • To line manage team members in a positive and proactive way to ensure an efficient and effective service to customers and a wellmotivated team.
  • To manage the delivery of inspection volumes forecasts for one or more remits.
  • To manage the process for developing and updating the risk assessment and selection process, identifying requirements, and new data sources.
  • To represent the Risk Assessment, Selection, and Forecasting (RASAF) team and its requirements with Ofsted colleagues and external stakeholders.
  • To build good relationships with external data suppliers.
  • To build and maintain effective relationships with colleagues in RASAF, the Data & Insight team and with policy makers throughout Ofsted, to ensure efficient delivery of products which meet policy requirements.
  • To produce management information to assist inspection delivery.
  • To maintain, update and quality assure a database pulling from a wide variety of data sources.

Person specification:


  • Please refer to the job specification for further information

Behaviours:

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Changing and Improving
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Managing a Quality Service
  • Delivering at Pace
  • Working Together
  • Developing Self and Others

Technical skills:

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • An understanding/awareness of at least one of Ofsted's inspection and regulatory remits and its objectives.

Experience of one or more of the following:
forecasting using a wide range of complex factors to estimate future inspection volumes.

  • Welldeveloped technical skills in appropriate programming languages for example in Excel, R and SQL.
  • Experience of analysing large and complex sets of data, developing models or tools and identifying the key findings.
  • Proven written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information in simple, concise and visually engaging ways.
  • Evidence of developing relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, from different specialisms such as policy, finance, operational delivery teams or external organisations.
  • Ability to organise and prioritise their own work, and the work of the team, to deliver a challenging programme of work.

Benefits:


Ofsted is committed to maintaining employee health and wellbeing, whether it is physically, emotionally, financially or socially, and offers a range of benefits to support employees in this.

Such benefits include the option to join the Civil Service Pension Scheme, professional and personal development opportunities, 32.5 annual leave days per annum (plus eight days public holiday) and access to counselling and advisory services.


Ofsted operates a hybrid working approach, allowing colleagues to benefit from time in the office, with the flexibility also to work from home.

Our expectation is that you will spend at least 60% of your time working in your office, or at external meetings or events.

The exact balance will depend on the nature of your role and the suitability of your home environment, and will be discusse
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