Performance Analyst Lead

Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh/Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Performance Analyst Lead - working 4 days per week - for an initial 12 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £641/day (Inside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.

Responsibilities:

- Assist, take forward and influence the strategy as determined by the Head of User Centred Design or senior colleagues in the DDaT profession, including data implementation and data architecture
- Remove blockers and act as an escalation point for key issues
- Provide advocacy and ambassadorship for analytics across communities, departments and the organisation
- Be responsible for the accuracy and quality of data, analysis and how they are used
- Proactively share knowledge and promote a data-driven culture as a leader in the community
- Work with other User Centred and evidence-based colleagues to advocate for a multi-disciplinary, user centred approach to designing and understanding products and services
- Coach and mentor senior performance analysts, performance analysts and associate performance analysts
- Evaluating and understanding routes for improved Performance Analysis in the in-house design team
- Taking advice from senior colleagues in the Data profession, define, deliver and evaluate a performance measurement approach and platform for the Division
- Participate in and/or support programme and project assurance activities
- Work with senior colleagues in the Data Profession to assure the quality of the Divisional Performance measurement approach and platform.
- Other duties as required by the organisation to support wider corporate activities

Essential Skills:

- Strong proficiency with Google Analytics, Data Studio and Tag Manager (or other digital analytics platforms): instrumenting, administration and analysis. This should include understanding of APIs, data security and privacy.
- Detailed understanding of and practical experience of using different data tools to transform, analyse and visualise data sets eg spreadsheets/Excel, Tableau.
- Experience of discovering and sharing analytical insight with stakeholders with various levels of analytical expertise and at all levels of seniority.
- Experience of gathering and understanding technical requirements and working with developers to build suitable technical solutions.

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.