Salary: Grade 9 Hours: 36.25 Contract: Permanent Location: GMCA Tootal Building Advert closing date: Sunday 13th October 2024 Your role: Do you have an interest in using data and evidence to drive better outcomes? Join us as Data Scientist & MI Lead and play a pivotal role in the developing and leading a new data and management information function bringing together data/MI support into a single directorate wide team. Acting as a champion for evidence-based decision making you will have the opportunity to be involved in everything from data collection, through to the way we visualise and gain insight from data designing, coding and presenting visually engaging analysis to inform critical decisions and support policy-making and commissioning within the Directorate. About you: We are looking someone with an u nderstanding of the local economic growth issues and policy, public service reform and devolution who can develop and lead a team/function that can turn data and qualitative evidence into actionable intelligence to inform the achievement of outcomes. You will have strong data presentation and insights skills accompanied by excellent analytical skills to turn data and qualitative evidence into actionable intelligence. You will be a great collaborator, working with colleagues across GMCAs Research and Digital team ensure a joined up approach to data and evidence insights, as well as working with external partners to look to maximise intelligence available from data. About us: As an employer, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is made up of a number of key Greater Manchester strategic functions and service providers including; Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS); Waste and Resources; Environment; Work and Skills; Research; Public Sector Reform; Police, Crime and Criminal Justice; Homelessness; the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub and the Commissioning Hub. We value the diversity of our employees, and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across Greater Manchester.We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people'sage, disability, Trans status and Non-binary identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability. ADZN1_UKTJ