Data Science Degree Apprentice X2

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

ESSENTIAL

Show the appropriate behaviour and attitude

• Be fair and able to treat others with respect
• Be helpful and positive

Show commitment to work or project

• Be responsible for carrying out the duties of an apprentice role to the highest level
• Fulfil all required duties

Working as part of a team

• Be able to work as part of a team
• Contribute towards team meetings and communicate regularly and effectively with other team members

Communicating with confidence

• Be able to communicate with confidence in Welsh and English
• Be able to show the appropriate skills to communicate effectively with any audience

Commitment to learning

• Commit to your development to fulfil your job and apprenticeship
• Continuously identify and implement personal development needs

Understand what is required to work for the council

• Understand the challenges that is facing the Council
• Pursue opportunities to be creative
• Ensure that the people of Gwynedd is central to everything that you do

DESIRABLE

QUALIFICATIONS AND RELEVANT TRAINING

ESSENTIAL

Qualified to level 3 (at least) meeting the requirements below:
Either:
3 A Levels grade C or Higher · Equivalent Level 3 vocational qualification (e.g. BTEC National Level 3 Diploma, Merit or above)
For information, any combination of qualifications with an equivalent degree will be acceptable.

DESIRABLE

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL

DESIRABLE

SKILLS AND SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE

ESSENTIAL

DESIRABLE

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
ESSENTIAL

LISTENING AND SPEAKING - INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
Able to maintain a fluent conversation on a number of various everyday subjects,and discuss cases involving the field of work.
Able to follow a discussion in Welsh, in Clear Welsh, on familiar matters relating to the post. Able to contribute to the conversation and answer questions.

READING AND COMPREHENSION - INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
Understand everyday correspondence on familiar issues at work.
Understand longer reports in Clear Welsh and be able to pick up the main points. (help may be required with the vocabulary).

WRITING - INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
Able to write letters for a specific purpose, e-mails and short reports in Welsh and English, using vocabulary and simple phrases that are familiar to the field of work. (They will need to be checked before being sent out).

Purpose of the Post

• Receive experiences and support in the workplace to complete an apprenticeship and to gain qualifications in the field of Data, Information Technology
• To contribute as a team member within the Development Service, Information Technology to provide a service to improve the Council's understanding of the data and those projects outlined in the Digital Plan to the Council's departments
• Ensuring that the people of Gwynedd are central to everything we do

Responsibility for functions . e.g. staff, budgets, equipment

Main Duties

Overview

The Council's Digital Plan sets out a long-term vision for digital services and how digital can enrich and make our services more efficient. One of the areas expected to grow the most is the data field. The experience of working with us while studying will be extremely useful towards your degree study, and put you in a great position to develop a career in the field. In a rapidly evolving field, the need to develop IT domain experts is vital to ensuring that we respond to the needs of the people of Gwynedd in innovative ways. This can include areas such as –

• Programme
• Web Technologies
• Databases
• Data analysis
• Data processing and presentation

All Gwynedd Council apprentices are expected to demonstrate the following:

• The right behavior and attitude
• Do your best in the day to day work and the qualification
• Contribute towards the success of the Council
• Working effectively as part of a team
• Communicate effectively
• Be ready to learn new things
• Understand exactly what is needed to work for the Council

Here is an overview of the main duties of the job:

Provide input into new ideas and identify efficiencies by identifying how the Service can create improvements, improve customer care or create new opportunities

Play a role in making decisions as ensuring that elements of projects are completed on time, within budget and to expected standards

Have the opportunity to provide input into policy development, new procedures and business planning

Contribute towards ensuring that performance targets and improvement measurements are achieved, or exceeded,

Develop clear and understandable project specifications

Use problem-solving skills to ensure innovative solutions are used

Work across Council departments and help to realise specific steps of improving the Council's understanding of those data and projects outlined in the Digital Plan to reform our arrangements of collecting, reporting and analysing our data

Develop a number of basic mathematical skills needed for data analysis and the ethics and legal requirements of data collection.

As a Cyngor Gwynedd member of staff, you have the following responsibilities:

Responsibility for self-development.

Ensure that the Health and Safety rules in the workplace and the Council’s Health and Safety Policy are followed

Follow the Council’s policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.

Responsible for managing information and to ensure that personal information is treated appropriately

Commit to the Carbon Management Plan and encourage people to reduce the Council’s Carbon Footprint

Responsibility to report any suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused