Job Summary
The Information Management Team sits within the Children’s Improvement and Partnership service, overseeing education data within Children’s Services and working across services.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Information Management Team for a Data Officer who will support the accurate collection, collation and interpretation of pupil, school and performance management information including devising, developing and maintaining relevant databases and spreadsheets.
As a Data Officer, you will play a key role in ensuring the accuracy and quality of information held within the central education system. Working closely with the Senior Data Officer, you will ensure that discrepancies between the central education system and schools are thoroughly investigated and efficiently resolved.
The successful candidate will be someone who is highly motivated, enthusiastic, confident and able to communicate clearly and effectively at all levels. You will also be committed to supporting Education / School Improvement to ensure you are able to promote positive relationships between schools and partners.
Main Responsibilities
· To support the core pupil data collection from all Bradford’s schools and Early Education and Childcare providers, ensuring a school/setting file for each is received on an agreed, regular basis irrespective of the software the school/setting opts to use for its MIS.
· Work with third party software suppliers to resolve issues with incomplete data files.
· Lead on the importing of data into the core education system.
· Monitor the supply of data in order to identify errors and inconsistencies and to liaise with school’s/providers/system users to resolve conflicting or erroneous data, ensuring data is accurate, consistent and up to date.
· Liaise and negotiate with a range of data providers, to secure access to data sets for both ad hoc projects and routine monitoring requirements.
· Monitor data quality across Children’s Service raising any concerns with management.
· Support the Senior Data Officer with identifying and implementing required data quality improvements including undertaking user acceptance testing on software, as required.
· Keep up to date with Department of Education (DFE) policies and statutory responsibilities and ensure that they are adhered to in a timely manner.
· Support the submission of all required statutory returns to the Department of Education (DFE).
· Support and guide key data stakeholders where appropriate and liaise with system users, as required, across the Council.
· Provide accurate information to respond to Freedom of Information and Subject Access Requests when requested by management.
· Ensure school term dates are collected from all schools and recorded and communicated.
· Support the collation, analysis and presentation of data in relation to child/pupil and setting/school information/results.
· To carry out any other duties, and to assist other staff in the performance of their duties, as may be required, which are reasonable in terms of the nature and level of the post.
Minimum Qualification Level
More >/= to 5 GCSE's -Grade 4-9 or C & above - inc Eng & Math
Essential Skills
• Experience of working with large complex datasets.
• Experience of using both MS Office products and other IT systems.