You’ll help clients improve their services by selecting the appropriate techniques to turn data into insights, by working within a product delivery team to develop performance measuring frameworks to track goals, user needs, or KPIs. You’ll operate within the client's requirements and the appropriate legal, technical and ethical constraints.
Leading by example and promoting Opencast’s approach, you’ll mentor junior colleagues, provide constructive feedback, and demonstrate an understanding of each product delivery stage and how to apply appropriate measurements for that phase of work.

Experience in delivering digital services for the UK government is highly valuable for many of our projects. Therefore, demonstrable experience with the GDS toolkit will be essential.
Due to the nature of this role, applicants must either currently hold active Security Check (SC) Clearance or be eligible to obtain it.
Eligibility typically requires UK citizenship and continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days. As a result, we are unable to progress applications from candidates who do not meet these requirements.
worked with data platforms such as Google Analytics, Splunk, Datadog, or similar
used data visualisation tools such as Data Studio to create service performance dashboards
designed and implemented a performance framework including KPIs or OKRs for a service or product
analytical skills in identifying the right data sources and then validate and understand how to interpret the results
collected, collated, cleansed, and interpreted data to derive meaningful and actionable insights
an ability to use the most appropriate medium to visualise data to tell compelling and relevant actionable stories
created hypotheses that can be tested, and developed insights based on your findings
working within a GDS delivery environment within a government department
valid Security Clearance or eligibility (5+ years residency in the UK)

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast.

Data Analyst – Consultant, Contract

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