Senior Data and Intelligence Analyst

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Grade H. Scale 29 - £39,862 to Scale 31 - £41,771

Hours Per Week: 36 hours

Base Location: Tameside One

Assessment Date: w/c 18^th May 2026

The Role

We are looking for a dedicated Senior Data Analyst to join our Children’s Data & Intelligence Team to support evidence-based decision-making across key service areas. This role will involve collecting, analysing, and interpreting data to provide insights that enhance outcomes for children and families as well as combining intelligence from multiple sources and leading on key projects and initiatives, relating complex insights to senior leaders and mentoring and support with developing analysts within the team.

About You

You will be an experienced data analyst with strong experience and knowledge of Children’s Services intelligence, reporting and statutory requirements. You will understand case management systems with a particular focus on Early Help and Family Help.

You will have experience of working with fellow analysts and delivering complex insights in a clear and actionable format to a wide audience.

If you’ve got knowledge of SQL, Python or R, or have worked with data visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau that’s great, but subject knowledge, ability and attitude are the most important aspects of the role we’ll make sure you have access to the right opportunities to develop on the technical side.

You will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and experience of developing data products, dashboards and reports that provide key detail and insight to the services you have supported.

You will have excellent organisational and people management skills, an ability to plan and deliver timely outcomes whilst dealing with multiple enquiries and tasks, excellent written and verbal communication skills, excellent numerical skills, an ability to conduct data and systems analysis and be capable of building relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders

About Us

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager Vicki Robinson on 0161 342 2246 or vicki.robinson@tameside.gov.uk