Data Analyst

Job Description

Qualifications Scotland is Scotland’s national awarding body, designing and delivering trusted qualifications that recognise knowledge and skills. Based in Scotland, the qualifications we create are valued and used worldwide. 

We’re looking for a Data Analyst to join the Data & Analytics team.

As a data analyst, you will be responsible for:

• further developing our analytical capability and ensuring that we utilise the best available methods and standards to deliver statistics that are in the public interest.
• undertaking robust analyses to improve our service delivery.
• contributing and gaining experience from across the work of the team and Qualifications Scotland
• engaging with other agencies and stakeholders across Scotland’s education system

To do this you must have experience in the following specific duties: 

• experience of data wrangling and analysis with a variety of datasets
• ability to translate policy, operational and business challenges into actionable analytical problems and solutions and to bring innovations where appropriate and impactful
• reporting and presenting complex analysis to internal and external audiences to inform policy and decision making. Will require knowledge and experience in data visualisation.
• proficiency in R or Python. Experience with packages for producing interactive visualisations (e.g. shiny or streamlit), using Git or similar version-controlled development workflows, as well as style sheet (e.g. CSS) and markup languages (e.g. markdown and/or html) would each be beneficial.
• experience of working both independently and collaboratively on analysis projects.

You must also have the following skills and experience: 

• have strong analytical skills. Experience of undertaking research or statistical projects with a significant quantitative element.
• experience of data visualization

• educated to SCQF Level 9 (Degree/SVQ 4) and/or be able to demonstrate direct relevant experience for this role 

We offer a fantastic benefits package in return for your talent. This includes:  

• a career-average pension scheme  

• employee wellbeing and health assistance programmes  

• development opportunities  

• 27 days annual leave and 14 days public holiday 

If you’ve got the skills, knowledge and experience for this role, please apply. 

We’re an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. As a certified Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the competency requirements of the role. 

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