Senior Analyst (Engagement and Population Insight) - Sunley House, Papworth Everard, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
* A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
* Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
* Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
* Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
* Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
* Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
* Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
* Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
* An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
We are looking to recruit a Senior Analyst (Population and Engagement) to join the Policy, Performance and Intelligence service. We want you to play an important role in ensuring the council can harness the potential of data, using evidence and best practice to support and inform the development of policy, strategy, plans and budgets, and in turn deliver the Corporate Strategy for Cambridgeshire County Council.
Experience in a consultation, engagement, research or analyst roles are desirable for this role. Required is the ability to deliver highly accurate work to agreed timescales. Knowledge of consultation software, data collection methods and good experience with analytics are required. We are open to candidates that may have either strong data analyst skills or consultation skills with the willingness to learn all elements of the role.
The role will sit within the Corporate Insight team and responsibilities will include:
1) Lead on Consultation and Engagement support within the council, providing critically important consultation and engagement advice and support to colleagues at all levels. Supporting and designing key corporate consultations such as Local Government reorganisation, Business planning and other key council priorities and managing the analysis of the results. You will also take responsibility for our YourVoice platform.
2) Supporting the HR service to aid with strategic workforce planning. This means working closely with HR partners and stakeholders from other directorates to provide workforce insights including sickness absence, learning and development tracking including digital skills and building and developing PBI dashboards.
3) Managing Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Insight – our partnership to provide a one stop shop for data and insight across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
4) Analysing and presenting relevant corporate datasets such as ACORN, IMD2025 and others to key stakeholders across the organisation.
The demand for our services has never been greater. With budgets of millions of pounds that impact on thousands of vulnerable people every year, services rely upon the analysis, information and advice provided by our team to make informed decisions – so you’ll really have a chance to make a difference.
The roles will sit within Cambridgeshire County Council’s newly formed Policy, Performance & Intelligence service. A team of around 50 individuals who provide data, analysis insight and policy expertise to support the operational management and strategic planning of services.
We are a family-friendly employer and will be happy to negotiate on working arrangements to achieve a good work / life balance. The role is offered with the option of flexibility on working hours. The role is a hybrid role with an expectation that you will work one day per week from the office with the team. There are also monthly service days as well as the need for in person training and IT support.
Please refer to the person specification when completing your supporting statement and provide specific examples of your work / skills, as applications will be shortlisted against the required experience, knowledge, and skills of the role.
For more information or an informal discussion, for more information on the Population and Engagement role please contact Jack Ossel, Performance & Intelligence Manager (Corporate Insight) at.
Please note : The application period for this role closes at 23.59 on Sunday 18th January 2026. We expect interviews to take place on the week commencing 26th January 2026 in person at Sunley House, Papworth.
Shortlisted candidates will be expected to complete a data analysis and presentation exercise as part of the interview process, the details of which will be shared at least 5 days in advance of the interview date.
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