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Senior Analyst, Planning Analytics

Requisition ID:  4175
Region:  Sydney City
Job Category:  Information technology
Employment Fill Type:  Temporary
Description: 


At the NSW Department of Education, we educate and inspire lifelong learners – from early childhood, through schooling to vocational education and training.

 

  • Temporary Full-Time (Up until 08/09/2028)
  • Location: 8 Central Avenue Eveleigh
  • Salary Package: Up to $149,165 p.a. Package includes annual salary of $120,859 p.a. - $133,183 p.a. plus superannuation
  • Access to flex leave entitlements, fitness passport and salary packaging benefits!

 

 

About School Infrastructure NSW

School Infrastructure NSW (SINSW) is delivering new school buildings, major upgrades, and maintenance strategies to ensure every school-aged child has access to high quality education facilities at their local public school. This encompasses the largest investment in public education infrastructure in the history of NSW.

 

About the role

  • Undertake research, development and application of complex analytical tools, systems, and processes to meet agreed team priorities, service standards and objectives, and support high quality strategic analysis and decision making.
  • Contribute to the back-end development of digital planning models and analytical tools, processes, and systems.
  • Ensure strategic planning decisions are based on a strong and rigorous evidence base, together with the preparation of briefings and other correspondence.
  • Provision of specialist advice and best practice digital solutions for the design and development of efficient and robust data transformation and integration workflows, processes and frameworks that meet specialised School Infrastructure NSW stakeholder needs and support strategic planning objectives will also be key to your role. 

 

For further information please click here to view the role description

 

About you

Your experience in delivering innovative data solutions utilising a range of analytical tools will enable you to deliver strategic outcomes. Your ability to influence and contribute to team development will allow you to support ongoing continuous improvement and innovation. With your demonstrated experience using database technologies, you are able to analyse and develop projection models that will apply statistical measures for verification.

 

The ideal candidate will have:

 

  • Demonstrated experience in delivering innovative data solutions using databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle) and database driven development, web-based data visualisation Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (ESRI, Mapbox, PostGIS), and leveraging industry RESTful APIs to deliver strategic outcomes.
  • Demonstrated experience working with disparate data sources for problem solving and to implement self serving solutions.
  • Demonstrated experience in analysing and developing projection models and apply statistical measures for verification.

 

 

Essential requirements of the role


 

How to apply

Attach a resume (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements and capabilities of this role.

 

Please refer to the Applicant’s Guide to Applying to assist you with your application.

 

If you are an existing Education Support Staff (corporate staff) with the NSW Department of Education, click here for instructions on how to submit your application.

 

All other applicants please submit your application by clicking ‘Apply Now’.


Note: the selection process will include a range of assessment techniques to assist in determining your suitability for the role. Successful candidates will be required to undertake pre-employment screening for this role which includes a National Criminal History Check.

As a condition of employment, successful candidates who have not previously worked for the department will be required to provide a current Working with Children Check (WWCC) Clearance number. This option would allow the WWCC to naturally expire without further communication needed with the employee. The employer obligations under the WWCC would apply for duration of the WWCC’s validity (up to 5 years)


Closing date: 25 November 2024 at 11:59pm.


For role enquiries please contact Jannatun Haque at Jannatun.Haque@det.nsw.edu.au.


We welcome applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team (dandi@det.nsw.edu.au) or visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion.


A recruitment pool may be created through this recruitment process. A recruitment pool is a group of applicants who have been assessed and identified as suitable for this role, and who may be considered for a range of similar roles, including temporary, term or ongoing roles, over the next 18 months.

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