About the job

Job summary

This is a Nationally based role

Job description

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Job Title:                 

Business Intelligence Developer (Senior Administrator)

Job Grade:            

HEO

New entrants are expected to join on the pay minimum.

Reporting to:        

Business Intelligence Manager

Job Location:       

National

Contract Type:      

Permanent

Business Area:     

MoJ – Commercial & Contract Management Directorate

Type of role:         

Business Intelligence & Management Information

Working pattern:   Flexible working, Full-time

Number of Posts:   1

About The Department

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is a major government department, at the heart of the justice system. Responsible for courts, prisons and probation services, we work to ensure sentences are served and offenders are given rehabilitation opportunities to become law-abiding citizens.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has one of the largest and most complex spend profiles in central government. The Commercial and Contract Management Directorate (CCMD) is responsible for coordinating procurement and contract management across the MoJ, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies.

The MoJ spends £7.5bn a year and manages over 1600 active contracts, all of which are sourced and managed by CCMD. We are running some of the most groundbreaking programmes such as Prison Reform and His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service Reform. The scope of our contracts ranges from building, maintenance and the operation of Prisons, Courts and Young Offender establishments through to food for prison dogs. The directorate also buys and manages contracts for feeding up to 80,000 prisoners, the secure escorting of prisoners from numerous establishments based around the country and translation services.

CCMD is organised into category teams, each with an interesting portfolio of contracts and diverse customers and suppliers to manage. We also have systems, programme management office, supplier relationship and risk management teams who work across all areas.

Scope

This role is in the Business Intelligence and Data Management team, part of the Commercial Operating Centre Portfolio which sits in the Commercial & Contract Management Directorate (CCMD). You will be working with stakeholders across MoJ both internally and externally, to develop a suite of reporting products that provide good quality, timely and relevant commercial data into formats that allows stakeholders to analyse and make or take data-driven decisions or actions. The post-holder will be responsible for providing key performance statistics to commercial portfolios, CCMD’s Senior Management Team and Commercial Governance Boards.

An additional role you will undertake will be to act in an advisory capacity on the submission of; Freedom of Information Requests, Parliamentary Questions, Treat Officials Requests and Ministerial Correspondence.

Key Responsibilities

The jobholder will 

• Support and lead the development of comprehensive requirements which form the specification for reporting products.
• Develop dynamic and engaging data visualisation products.
• Plan and lead the delivery of end-to-end Business Intelligence projects.
• Work in line with and improve upon the Product Delivery Framework which sets out the standards and delivery model for data products.
• Continuously learn and extract the most benefit from the Business Intelligence tools.
• Develop and update documentation across the Product Delivery Framework.
• Take ownership of the development of reporting products, working collaboratively with colleagues in the business on developing requirements and iterating the improvement of data products.
• Develop and run reporting queries as required.
• Support legacy platforms as required, manually extracting reports and refreshing data

Person Specification

Essential Criteria:

• Extensive experience developing high quality, visually engaging business intelligence products.
• Extensive experience working within the Microsoft stack, including Power BI, Azure and the Power Platform.
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Power Bi, (including Power BI query), transforming, cleansing, manipulating data and creating measures, into meaningly statistical and visual information within the power bi package
• Advanced skills in Excel and Power Query.
• Experience in SQL, DAX and Data Protection Acts
• Experienced networker with proven ability to build effective relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent communicator with experience in communicating across all levels of a business.
• Experience of leading the gathering and consolidation of stakeholder requirements
• Ability to convey otherwise complex findings through actionable data visualisation.
• Able to prioritise work, meet deadlines and ensure data is presented accurately and clearly.
• Experience leading end to end business intelligence projects, from requirements and design to hands-on delivery and support.
• Comfortable working cross-functionality with a range of colleagues.
• Passionate about business intelligence with a desire to learn and stay up to date with industry best practice.
• Able to work autonomously and part of a team.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience of using Oracle based Purchase to pay (P2P) systems including extracting and building reports in the discovery reporting function of oracle.
• An understanding of Commercial processes and P2P life cycle.

Application stage (Sifting):

An initial sift will be performed against the following elements:

Application stage (sifting)

• CV
• Behaviour – Managing a Quality Service (Please follow the essential criteria to provide an example using a STAR approach.)
• Statement of Suitability - Please share examples using STAR approach to demonstrate your suitability against the Key Responsibilities and Essential Skills in the job description.

If shortlisted, you’ll be invited to an interview and will be assessed on the selected success profile and technical elements. Please carry a proof of ID that has your photo on it (Passport, BRP, Driving Licence etc) at the interview.

Interview stage:

There is one interview stage for this vacancy and as part of the interview process you will be required to provide evidence on the following:

Technical

• Demonstration of specific professional skills and knowledge (Ten-minute Power BI presentation on data analytics and ability to demonstrate end to end management of data life cycle)

Presentation

• During your ten-minute presentation around Power BI on data analytics, you will be assessed on your ability to engage with the stakeholders.

Behaviours

• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Making Effective Decisions

Please use STAR approach to structure your examples.

• Situation – Describe the situation you found yourself in and what happened.
• Task – The Hiring Manager will want to understand what you tried to achieve from the situation that you found yourself in.
• Action – What actions did you take and how did you do it. Make sure to use “I”, not “we” to explain how your actions lead to a result.
• Result – Use facts and statistics to demonstrate the results that your actions produced. Explain whether it was a successful outcome, and if not, what you learned from the experience.

Further information on the Success profile elements can be found on Success Profiles - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £32,827, Ministry of Justice contributes £8,896 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.