MANAGEMENT INFORMATION OFFICER

Salary: Gradd 6 - £32,061 - £36,363

About The Service
The Education and Lifelong Learning Directorate provides the strategic, professional and operational support to enable the Council to fulfil its responsibilities for early years education, statutory age education, education in school sixth forms and a youth service.

There are 128 schools in Cardiff consisting of 3 nursery schools, 99 Primary Schools, 18 Secondary Schools, 7 Special Schools & 1 Pupil Referral Unit.

There are 53,203 learners on a school roll from Nursery to National Curriculum Year 11 (ages 3 -16) and 3,455 learners on roll post-16. A total of 56,658 learners in Cardiff schools as at January 2025. There are also an additional 556 learners Educated Other Than At School (EOTAS), 514 pre-16 and 42 post-16.

The work of the Directorate is organised into six service areas: Partnerships & Performance, Inclusion Services, Targeted Services, Key Groups, Services to Schools, and School Organisation and Access and Planning.

Each of these supports the overall purpose of improving the achievement of learners. The Directorate also commissions the Central South Consortium to provide School Improvement Services to all of its schools.

About the job
This exciting opportunity, within the innovative and pro-active Information Systems Team, is to support not only the Education's and Schools' Local and Statutory Data Returns, but to provide critical management information data, utilising innovations of digitalised reporting mechanisms within the Education Directorate. To work with managers and staff across the Directorate to identify improved reporting needs and requirements, which will assist in the optimisation of data led analysis and decision making through business intelligence. The position benefits from excellent professional development opportunities.

What We Are Looking For From You
The Education Directorate is seeking an experienced, innovative officer to support the transformation of reporting requirements of management information and business intelligence, providing the technical knowledge and expertise to enable the digitalisation of data collection and reporting methods. The postholder will work with managers and staff to optimise use of business intelligence to meet service requirements.

The postholder will support the delivery of continuous improvement through data analysis whilst a need to be a competent user of databases and reporting tools, be extremely motivated and be able to breakdown problems to deliver positive solutions.

This is a key post and pivotal to the delivery of information management improvement plans within the Directorate.

Additional information
For an informal discussion about this post, please call Rodel Currie, Information Systems Manager on 07974 597355.

This post is suitable for job share.

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