Bi & Performance Business Partner - Adults & Housing

We are looking for a highly experienced BI and Performance professional, with expertise in the areas of Adults and Housing performance and reporting. As a Business Partner you will work with our Adults and Housing Directorate to shape BI, Data and Performance reporting and the use of new data applications and analytics.

Using your well-developed professional BI & Performance experience, you will be able to identify creative BI & Data solutions to address a range of insight, intelligence, and reporting challenges, and we hope that you will use your customer-focused attitude to contribute to the success of the team.

Key stakeholders will include the council’s senior leadership team, directorate management team, operational managers, project teams, internal ICT and digital colleagues and any regional benchmarking groups.

We adopt an agile approach to working, with opportunities to work either in the office or remotely depending on the activity. We encourage collaborative working across the team, where projects can often overlap team areas. As a service we also like to make full use of the technology available to us, including hybrid facilities which allow for with a mix of in-person and remote in the same setting.

This is a strategic role where you will be actively partnering with the Adults and Housing leadership team, supporting them by proactively identifying opportunities for Business Intelligence, performance reporting and the use of data to both improve and transform ways of working. You will also use your significant influencing skills to ensure that activity is carried out in support of the council’s wider strategic objectives and overarching council plan. Full details are provided in the context statement.

Importantly, as part of the BI & Performance management team, you will help to guide the future direction of the central Business Intelligence and Performance service.

This post requires you to have access to sensitive information. It will be subject to a Basic Criminal Records Check. See our policy on the employment of ex-offenders.

Dorset Council: A great place to work

We’re passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.

At Dorset Council we:

• provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
• have ambitious aspirations
• are excited about our future
• care about Dorset and all the people who live here
• know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success

  You will:

• have access to a range of employee benefits
• be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
• have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are challenging ourselves to become a more diverse and inclusive organisation. We recognise that recruitment and inclusion of individuals with diverse skills, perspectives and backgrounds will bring real strength to the council and our communities. We have a commitment to equality and welcome applications from everyone.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.

We are keen to make our interviews accessible. Let us know on your job application if you have a disability and need any reasonable adjustments.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours. We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

If appointed, the personal information we collect from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found at https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.