About the job

Job summary

The Digital, Data and Technology (DDAT) directorate has recently been established in UKEF, drawing together the expertise in digital currently within the organisation to provide representation of digital services, user centred design, analytics and technology at the highest levels. The areas with the directorate work closely with all areas of the business such as the Business Group, Operations and Strategy and Policy.

Job description

UKEF is committed to using digital as a primary means for managing relationships with a wider range of stakeholders. Focusing on developing services to meet user need and enable business outcomes, this is an exciting role showing the growth and drive of UKEFs digital ambition.

Our developers work in agile teams, to deliver prioritised work packages from the research stage through to deployment as live services.

You’ll be delivering and integrating software to form complete services as well as building and maintaining the service components to ensure they meet our needs. You will work closely with our research and design teams providing technical expertise. We will expect you to be proactive in identifying innovative ways of working as well as process optimisation opportunities and contributing to the implementation of proposed solutions.

Person specification

• Be the Centre of Excellence, providing support to colleagues for Power BI reporting across UKEF.
• Create visualizations and reports for requested projects as well as BAU (business as usual).
• Capture detailed end-user requirements translating into technical specifications and assessing for priority.
• Actively contribute to the full life-cycle delivery of reports, dashboards, and data feeds.
• Closely collaborate with team members and stakeholders on design to ensure reporting achieve desired results and are fit for purpose.
• Develop a testing regime for all products, optimising each report ensuring performance is maintained to the highest level.
• Develop and update technical documentation, whilst collaborating with business teams to integrate legacy systems and processes.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,890, UK Export Finance contributes £11,850 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, Ability, Experience and Technical skills.

We are assessing candidates using Success Profiles (see Appendix 1) and across the whole process we will assess your Experience, Ability, Technical aptitude and Behaviours as highlighted below.

You will be invited to complete the online application form.  The application form must be completed by 23.55 on the day of the closing date for it to be accepted.

All applications will be sifted against our minimum selection criteria outlined in the personal specification. 

You will be asked in the relevant sections of the application form to provide examples of evidence against a range of the success profiles (refer to appendix 1). Applicants are asked to apply with a personal statement, you should fully articulate in 500 words how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification within the Information Pack.

You will also be asked to complete a 500-word statement answering the following question:

• From your experience, what technical skills have you applied to business intelligence reporting generally and Power BI specifically?

Sift

For the initial sift your application will be evaluated against:

1. Technical - as demonstrated In CV and personal statement.
2. Experience - as demonstrated In CV and personal statement.
3. Experience - response to the above question (500 words maximum).
   

In the event of a large number of applications an initial sift will be undertaken against the following essential criteria:

• Experience with DAX

Interview

If you are successful following the sift stage, you will be invited to an initial interview; this will include the following assessment:

• Behaviours/Technical/Experience - a formal panel interview where you will be interviewed across all 3 behaviours highlighted and your technical ability to successfully carry out the role.
  • Behaviour - Changing and Improving
  • Behaviour - Managing a Quality Service
  • Behaviour - Delivering at Pace

• Technical - a short presentation (this will be on a topic determined by UKEF and will need to be prepared in advance).
• Technical - questions relevant to the role.

Details of interview panel members will be e-mailed to all successful candidates who are invited for interview.

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

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). 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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.