Workforce Analyst

Job Title: Workforce Analyst

Department Consultancy & Research

Location Bristol/Sheffield Office with hybrid working

Pay Scale £49k per year

Contract Permanent

Hours Full Time (37.5 hours per week)

Job Summary

The Workforce Analyst will manage and deliver a range of analytical solutions for a variety of stakeholders and organisations. This includes the collection, organisation and interpretation of data and statistical information about workforces to make it tactically, operationally and strategically useful. This work frequently sits in context of wider workforce planning projects undertaken with clients. Typically, workforce analysis activities include, workforce supply and demand analysis, modelling and evaluation.

This role will work with colleagues across organisation, primarily focussed on the health and justice sectors, to identify customer needs, propose and develop effective analytical solutions and support the development of The Workforce Development Trust.

What is the impact of the role on the business?

As workforce data analyst you will be crucial in developing concise insights, toolkits, solutions, and recommendations for clients across the UK. You will have the opportunity to support the improvement of critical public services, including in the health and justice sector.

Key business skills necessary for the role?

The ideal candidate has experience in working within people and workforce analytics; significant experience in working with large quantitative datasets and advanced MS Excel and/or MS Power BI skills to synthesis data.

What does the daily work look like?

You will join a collegiate and friendly team, working across a wide variety of programmes and projects. Many of our projects include analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, identifying trends, creating visuals and toolkits, and providing meaningful insights and recommendations for our clients.

Key Responsibilities

• This post holder will deliver a portfolio of commissioned assignments/projects and services that require:
• Understanding and interpreting business problems to identify and implement appropriate data solutions.
• Analysing quantitative, and sometimes qualitative data, identifying trends and producing compelling visualisations to provide actionable insights and impactful solutions / recommendations for clients.
• Setting out requirements, cleaning, aggregating and manipulating data, to enable an accurate interpretation of data and from various sources
• Prepare and present reports on analytical, combining analytical rigour with clarity and an appropriate range of visualisation methods.
• Quantifying and evaluating the impact of proposals or new initiatives.
• In line with best practice, ensure that analytical outputs are robust and effective, and that methods can withstand scrutiny.
• Contributing data and insights to reports, and providing briefings as needed.
• Coach and support clients to develop their capacity to analyse and interpret workforce data. Including automating data management activities where required.
• Ensuring that lessons learned are captured and fed into wider process improvement activities
• Develop, manage, and always maintain effective working relationships with external stakeholders/customers and internal colleagues.
• Manage competing priorities, timescales, and capacity issues to ensure all projects meet customer and regulatory requirements
• Collaborate with internal colleagues providing advice, guidance, and analytical inputs on a range of bids, proposals and case studies to support the range of business development and marketing activities.
• Attending external meetings across the UK as required, promoting a positive image of the organisation at all times.
• Report on personal targets as agreed with line manager and undertake line management responsibilities as required.

This job requires some days in the office. Please consider if you are willing to relocate before applying.

Please only apply if you currently have a valid right to work in the UK.

Benefits:

• Generous annual leave entitlement up to a maximum of 28 days, plus public holidays and a potential Christmas closure
• Flexible working - 50% working from home with a dress for your day approach
• Staggered start and finish time
• Employee referral recruitment scheme
• We provide enhanced leave, bereavement, carers, maternity, paternity and sickness leave.
• Health and wellbeing benefits, access to our mental health first aiders, a confidential employee assistance programme, free eye tests and payment for an annual flu jab
• Enhanced pension scheme, with a contribution matching up to a combined 12%, along with death in service coverage at three times annual salary
• Flexible employee benefits, portal including a cycle to work scheme
• Buy annual leave scheme
• Organisational development days and departmental training budgets
• Payroll giving, this is a tax-free way to donate to any charity, good cause or place of worship

The Workforce Development Trust is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone.

If your experience differs a little from what is outlined in the job description, or you are missing a desired qualification, yet you think you can bring value to this role, please apply, we would like to hear more about you.

We strongly encourage people of all gender, religion, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, and individuals with disabilities to apply.

If you need any reasonable adjustments at any point, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to advise on your preferred pronouns, for example she/her, he/him, they/them etc.

For the full job description and a job pack to assist your application, please visit: https://www.wdtrust.org.uk/careers/

The Workforce Development Trust appreciate any applications that include cover letters explaining why they would be suitable for this role.

Closing date: Thursday 31st October 2024

Please note, we reserve the right to alter the closing date before the one stated.

Please include your CV when applying. Cover letter optional, but beneficial. You can apply through our website.

Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

Job Types: Permanent, Full-time

Pay: £49,000.00 per year

Work Location: Bristol/Sheffield Office with hybrid working

Application deadline: Thursday 31st October 2024