Job Description
Description
Who we are
We help our clients design and deliver digital, technology and organisational transformation - solving real problems for real people. We research, design and build things: better services and products, better ways of working, better user experiences and better organisations and culture. Our core areas of expertise are analysis, research, analytics, data; user-centred design (service design, content design, interaction design and user research); product management and delivery; business change and people development.
We primarily work in the public sector, supporting initiatives that improve society and the lives of citizens; with not-for-profit organisations, charities and social enterprises; and with some private-sector companies. The key sectors we're working in at the moment include education, apprenticeships & skills development, social care, rehabilitation, housing and criminal justice - but we're always growing, developing and finding out about new things.
The role
This is a fantastic opportunity to enable and inspire digital teams in government to take data-driven decisions, working on a range of exciting government projects.
We are looking for an analytics professional who wants to take their technical, problem-solving and communication skills to the next level.
At Farsight Consulting we promote multidisciplinary, ‘T shaped’ skillsets in our people and provide coaching and upskilling through a dedicated coaching model and skills academy. You would be a part of and help shape the growing analytics community of practise within Farsight Consulting, learning from others and bringing your own skills and experience to the table.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver excellent analytics services for clients. This would typically be as a member of a multi-disciplinary client team, consisting of a combination of other Farsight people, other consultants/contractors and clients’ own employees. The exact role you would play within the team would depend on your own technical skills and experience, but might include:
- Analytics engineering
- Data engineering
- Data analysis
- Leadership and/or management of a data/analytics team/product
- Government digital ‘performance analysis’ - responsible for definition, analysis and visualisation of a digital service’s KPIs and goals
- Influence and inspire clients to take informed strategic decisions about their approach to analytics – advising on tools, outcomes, governance, people, skills etc., working with others to complement and fill in the gaps in your own knowledge and experience
- Be an active member of the Farsight analytics community of practise – taking part in training and development activities and sharing your own skills and experience. Optionally, and depending on your skills and preferences, you might take on additional coaching and training responsibilities such as becoming a performance coach, providing informal on the job support or delivering more formal training activities.
Requirements
We’ll assess the following skills during the application process:
- SQL. You have used more advanced SQL (for example, complex joins between combinations of tables and CTEs, analytic functions, regular expressions, scripting and/or arrays/nested data) in a range of contexts (for example, different data warehouses or databases)
- Data visualisation. You have used a range of tools (e.g. Looker, Looker Studio, Power BI, Tableau, Lightdash) to visualise data, can describe the stories this has enabled you to tell, and can explain your preferences around tooling while retaining flexibility to meet client needs.
- Enabling data driven decision-making. You have a proven track record of breaking down the barriers that prevent a team from doing this effectively. Sometimes you have done this through application of your own technical skills. Sometimes you have delivered this through empowering and influencing others to bring skills and experience that complement your own to bear.
- Building and managing relationships. You can build and maintain strong relationships, demonstrating strong emotional intelligence and recognising the different needs of the diverse range of team members and clients we work with. You have experience mediating and mending relationships and managing expectations of clients and stakeholders.
- Communication. You have strong listening, and verbal and written communication skills, which you can leverage to build relationships and facilitate effectively, asking the right questions to ensure conversations remain focused. You have experience communicating sensitive messages, telling nuanced data stories, and navigating difficult conversations, steering these towards positive outcomes.
- Adaptability. You can adjust your approach, including technical decisions, leadership approach and role to suit different client contexts and team needs.
Nice to have
- Analytics engineering skillset – for example, dbt or Dataform
- Python for analytics – for example, Jupyter notebooks, ETL pipelines
- Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary government digital teams
- Experience in another discipline, e.g. product management, service design, development, delivery management, business analysis
Benefits
What we can offer your career:
Developing our people is at the heart of everything that we do.
Our environment is friendly, supportive and collaborative. We offer a learning and development programme that is tailored to you. New ideas are encouraged and there’s plenty of opportunities to innovate and make an impact. We can promise that the work will be varied and interesting and will give you lots of opportunities to develop and grow.
We have 3 promotion windows open each year so you can progress through the company.
You’ll be encouraged to get involved in coaching and mentoring and contribute to the development of Farsight.
More about our company benefits
- 31 days holiday and Bank Holidays off
- Discretionary bonus
- Flexible working. You might spend 3 days a week working from home, with one in the Farsight London office at the Oval and one day a week with clients. This is flexible and we will consider remote working candidates.
- Flexible working around our core hours of 10am to 4pm.
- Pension, we pay 5% into your pension and you pay 3%.
- Death in service benefit of four times your salary.
- A Christmas and birthday gift.
- A discount on gym membership and access to the BUPA Employee Assistance Programme.
- Enhanced sick pay, maternity, paternity, and adoption pay.
- Regular socials, a Workspace office in central London and an open and supportive culture.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £60,000.00-£80,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Flexitime
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme
- Work from home
Schedule:
Supplemental pay types:
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London