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Wales, United Kingdom

- Bespoke business improvement projects tackling operational challenges, audit recommendations, and wider policy challenges. This includes system analysis, root cause analysis, and developing recommendations to solve problems.- Developing data models to meet business improvements project needs and KPI reporting.- Working with the Change Office and DIgital Services to enact digital improvements across multiple service areas.- Development and management of data products including PowerBi workstreams.- Contribution to the organination's Data Strategy and contributions to individual service strategies to use data.- Developing and undertaking research projects on complex themes such as EDI and whether or not there are differences in the experiences of our customers and colleagues in different service areas.- Stakeholder engagement and scoping to develop and inform digital and data projects, utilising agile techniques.- Working with the Data Protection Officer to turn retention policies into reality via reporting tools.- Development of data infrastructure including SQL views, a new Data Warehouse, and a Metadata standard.- Working with colleagues to improve data literacy and maturity.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

- Providing a range of holistic analytical, consultancy, and research support to customers including report writing, presentations to boards, policy briefings, and data scoping exercises. Including both quantitative and qualitative methods.- Managing and undertaking a bespoke portfolio of contracted work for Wales’ Regional Skills Partnerships (in particular, the Cardiff Capital Region), the WCVA, and other public bodies. This included data dissemination, analytical tasks, writing of policy papers, development of data strategies, KPI and metric creation.- Leading on data developments and insights in the following areas; labour market intelligence, third sector/volunteering sector, green economy and energy production.- Utilising new data dissemination technologies (PowerBI) and advising the company on their use, benefits, and roll outs.- Cleansing and transforming big/complex datasets for use in efficient streamlined data linking, and dissemination.- Fostering partnerships and running technical forums within the wider public sector.- Developing the company’s open data strategy including; opening up the company’s data, advising colleagues and the public on open data, developing the company’s open data hub.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

- Developing and managing forms and data collections.- Regular updates to external websites and tools.- Drafting a new Metadata standard for the organisation and creating new processes for ensuring data stored is up to standard through queries and database administration.- Sourcing and aggregating data around thematic and service priorities.- Data querying and transformation.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

- Assessment and monitoring of Lottery and Welsh Government grants on a variety of funding programmes ranging from £500 to £1,000,000 in size.- Creation, development and maintenance of data monitoring and analytics programmes.- Research, briefings and policy analysis used across the Wales directorate and externally.- Working with a team to create a new Learning & Evaluation Strategy.- Policy research, analysis and outreach for new Strategic Funding Programmes.- Outreach activities and stakeholder engagement to promote the fund and to gather knowledge on local areas, as well as promoting partnership work with key players in the Third Sector.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Landscape And Territory (Human Geography), Merit

Fields of study: Regional economics and geography; development of states and nations; political geography and theory; research methods..

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Human Geography, First (With Honours)

Fields of study: Urban geography; rural geography; economic development; research methods. Completion of a 10,000 word dissertation based.