Job summary

Our people and culture are integral to our organisation's identity and the success of our strategy, policy, and operations for protecting the public requires recruiting, developing, and retaining high-calibre people in all areas and ensuring they work well together. This means a customer focused, solution-driven delivery of priorities across the whole HR spectrum - at the same time as undergoing our own restructure to ensure we are appropriately sized and skilled to deliver and excel. This is an exciting role within the People Analytics team which is focused on bringing together existing datasets and investigating people issues to inform decision-making, and acts as a centre of expertise on the use and presentation of people-related data.

The People Data Analyst will be responsible for running and building reports that explore a range of workforce, financial and people data insights. They will bring together multiple data sources to reveal patterns and correlations, allow workforce challenges to be addressed. The post holder will deliver actionable insights from the organisation's existing people data sources, using curiosity, creativity and experience to provide observations which are accurate, relevant and clearly communicated.

Main duties of the job

Establishing relationships with key stakeholders including HR, finance, strategy, workforce and business planning colleagues to understand the current sources of workforce data and information available, and how these can be effectively combined. Running and building reports and enquiries on a range of workforce, financial and people data. Bringing together multiple data sources (including a mixture of quantitative and qualitative data) to reveal patterns and correlations. Using a range of analytical tools (predominantly within Excel) to investigate workforce issues, trends and opportunities. Producing clear presentations of workforce insights generated. Building and maintaining a suite of models- a central repository of insight and information to be used across the group. Acting as centre of expertise on use and presentation of people datasets, providing advice and direction to other teams as needed. Keep up to date with new techniques and approaches to manipulation and presentation of people datasets. Identify, discuss and action own professional performance and training / development needs with your line manager through appraisal / individual development plan. Attending internal / external training events To participate in all mandatory training as required

About us

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.

UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Essential criteria:

You will be assessed on the below (5) essential criteria, which have been selected from the Job Description

Familiarity with a range of data handling techniques including confident use of a wide range of excel formulas. Significant experience of working within a People Analytics context, and/or with data/insights relevant to workforce, performance, engagement, recruitment, skills and/or talent planning. Experience in stakeholder communications and management Ability to present information to create a clear picture of a situation, challenge or solution, and ability to seek consensus. Strong analytical abilities, including ability to investigate discrepancies and correlations.

Selection Process Details:

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours/Ability/ Experience.

Stage 1: Application & Sift

Success profiles assessments

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the above listed (6) essential criteria, and this will be in the form of a:

Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application) (1000) word Statement of Suitability.

This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.

The Application form and Statement of Suitability will be marked separately, and you must pass both to move forward to interview.

Shortlisting:

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview and assessment

Please do not exceed 1000 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2: Interview (success profiles)

You will be invited to a (single) remote interview.

Behaviours,experience, andabilitywill be tested at interview.

You will be asked to prepare and deliver a 5 minute presentation. This will be followed by a question-and answer segment. This presentation will be designed to assess your experience in line with the requirements of the role. Full details will be provided prior to the interview.

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:

Seeing the bigger picture Changing and improving Collaborating and partnering Managing a quality service

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Selection Process (for apps via Trac)

Please note you will not be able to upload your CV. You must complete the application form in as much detail as possible.

Eligibility Criteria - External

Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

Location

This role is being offered as hybrid working. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month) working at one of UKHSA's core HQs (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and London).

Security Clearance Level Requirement

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard.

Person Specification

Application form

Essential

Application form

Statement of suitability

Essential

Statement of suitability

Behaviour

Essential

Seeing the big picture Changing and improving Collaborating and partnering Managing a quality service