Our Values

In line with our One Coventry Values we strive to have a workforce that reflects our local communities and welcome applicants from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic backgrounds, applicants who have a disability and applicants who are from the LGBTQ+ community to apply for our senior leadership roles. 

Our Values are:

About the team we are recruiting to

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive, is accepting of all and is free from discrimination and bias.

The Insight Team's role is to question, influence and provide understanding to make life better in Coventry.
 
The Insight Team collects, analyses, interprets and publishes a wide range of insights about the city, and engages with residents, communities and partners to champion a culture of evidence-based decision-making across Coventry.
 
Activities undertaken by the Insight team include:

• Business intelligence
• Customer and location intelligence
• Engagement and consultation support
• Evaluative research
• Performance management
• Partnership working
• Providing advice and guidance on equalities and diversity issues and ensuring the Council discharges its Public Sector Equality Duty

Areas of work supported by the Insight team include:

• Children's services
• Compliments, comments and complaints
• Customer services
• Geographical information systems
• Growth and prosperity
• Housing and homelessness
• Local land and property gazetteer
• Population health management
• Social care

What is the job role?

Fixed Term Contract/Secondment up to March 2025.

We are looking for a Lead Analyst to join the Insight (Social Care) team and your focus will be on adult social care, working within a very busy, innovative and forward-thinking team.   We are working together with Adult Services to help improve people’s lives, especially the most vulnerable.  You will have opportunities to work across the wider Insight Team on projects.

Your role will be to:

• Deliver insight, analysis and intelligence to drive change, ensuring that this is supported by robust quantitative and/or qualitative data
• Deliver statutory returns, support CQC Inspections and any other submissions, accurately and on time
• Build and develop various dashboards using PowerBI, extracting data from data-warehouses
• Utilise techniques in statistical analysis and modelling and /or qualitative research methodologies
• Working together with Adult Services to understand trends, service needs and opportunities
• Develop timely, robust and relevant understanding of key issues, providing interpretation on the strength of existing evidence

The Insight Team champions a culture of better decisions through evidence and engagement across the city and the Council. We utilise our unique position of having oversight of the interdependencies and impact of multiple changes to influence important decisions for the city and its citizens.

Who are we looking for?

You’ll have excellent analytical and numeracy skills and the ability to write clearly and communicate complex data to different audiences using a variety of techniques. 

You’ll also be an excellent communicator, able to explain and present complex data to a wide range of audiences, working together with the service area and partner organisations to promote a performance and data culture including self- service usage of dashboards, as well as having excellent team working skills.
You will have a proven ability to manage various projects at the same time, working with others to achieve successful outcomes, with high levels of expectation to deliver to tight timescales.

When applying for this role you will be asked to write a personal statement, please include the following information in your statement:

• Knowledge and understanding of the use of qualitative and quantitative research methods and data analysis;
• Your excellent ICT Skills to extract, report and present data

If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'

Interview date(s): 30th January 2024

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies

Coventry City Council