Digital Performance Analyst

£44,913 - £53,230

London: £48,913 to £53,230 / National: £44,913 - £49,230 (including allowance). Your salary will be determined by your skills and capability as assessed at interview.

If you join us, you will get:

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• A flexible, hybrid working environment with options like condensed hours
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual leave starting at 25 days rising to 30 days with service
• Three paid volunteering days a year
• An employee benefits programme including cycle to work

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) helps businesses invest, innovate, export and grow across the UK. The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate helps to deliver this by designing, building and running the services, platforms and technology that businesses and colleagues rely on every day.

Our teams work on a wide range of services and technologies, including:

• digital services that help businesses access government support, guidance and opportunities
• data and AI products that support decision making and enable innovation
• internal tools and services that help colleagues work more effectively
• secure technology and platforms that support critical government services
• cyber security services that protect systems, data and users

By joining DDaT, you'll work on services used by businesses, colleagues and citizens across the UK. You'll be part of multidisciplinary teams focused on improving services, solving complex problems and delivering better outcomes for users.

Reporting to a Senior Performance Analyst, the Digital Performance Analyst will be part of a team responsible for continuously improving performance measurement and reporting across the department. You will analyse both macro and micro moments across user journeys, communicating insights clearly to a range of audiences to identify opportunities to improve digital services.

The Digital Performance Analyst will work collaboratively across the wider DDaT Directorate, applying analytical expertise to deliver data solutions and insight that support continuous improvement and better outcomes for users. You will take responsibility for the accuracy, quality and appropriate use of data and analysis, ensuring analytical outputs are robust and fit for purpose.

Your key tasks as a Digital Performance Analyst will involve:

• Defining what "good" looks like by developing performance frameworks aligned to organisational strategy, business objectives and user needs
• Developing performance analysis projects, selecting the most appropriate methodologies to generate actionable insights
• Analysing service performance using Google Analytics and other quantitative and qualitative data sources, triangulating evidence to identify opportunities for improvement
• Collaborating with product teams to assess and enhance the performance of digital services across the product lifecycle
• Presenting analytical findings clearly and persuasively, tailoring communication to suit different audiences
• Applying quality assurance practices to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of performance data and analysis outputs
• Developing and maintain dashboards, ensuring key stakeholders, product owners, and policy teams have access to timely and relevant performance data

Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time

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Senior Executive Officer

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Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Manchester

As a Digital Performance Analyst you will be part of a high-performing and dynamic team. You will be responsible for communicating analysis and insight across the department's digital services. You will enable service and product owners to develop performance frameworks and ensure that business solutions are aligned with strategy, business goals and end user needs.

You will understand the concept of the different phases of product delivery and be able to plan and run the analysis for these. You will understand the different phases of product delivery and plan and deliver appropriate analysis throughout the product life cycle. You will work collaboratively with user researchers, developers and other multidisciplinary roles, using evidence to inform decision-making.

You will identify and apply appropriate analytical techniques, bringing together multiple sources of quantitative and qualitative evidence to build a clear picture of service performance. You will involve teams in the analytical process, using evidence to build consensus and challenge assumptions.

You will understand and identify who the users are and what their needs are, based on evidence. You will adopt a user-centred approach, manage competing priorities and collaborate with user-centred design professions including User Researchers, Digital Evaluators, Content Designers and Business Analysts

You will have a strong understanding of quality assurance techniques, with the ability to identify appropriate data sources, validate data quality, and accurately interpret analytical results.

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Analysis and insight
• Performance measurement
• Quality assurance of data and analysis
• Technical understanding
• Working within constraints

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Offers will be made in merit order based on location preferences. If you pass the bar at interview but are not the highest scoring you will be held on a 12-month reserve list in case a role becomes available. If you are judged a near miss at interview, you may be offered a post at the grade below the one you applied for.

This role requires SC clearance. BIST's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer will be withdrawn.

Checks will also be made against:

• departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and security records)
• UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records
• your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency
• security services record
• location details

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

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