Transport for the North

Principal Data Analytics and Modelling Officer
Closing date: Tuesday 29th June 2018
Location: Flexible across the North of England, but with a requirement to regularly work from our office in both Manchester and Leeds.
Salary: £45,432 - £53,004 per annum
Contract: Fixed Term Contract - 2 Years

Transport for the North is England’s first Sub-National Transport Body. We were formed to transform the transport system across the North of England, providing the infrastructure needed to drive economic growth.

As a partnership, we bring together the North’s nineteen local transport authorities and business leaders together with Network Rail, Highways England, and HS2 Ltd and working with Central Government. We enable the North to speak with one voice on the transport infrastructure investment needed to drive transformational growth and rebalance the UK economy.

We are based across the North, with offices in Manchester and Leeds and have colleagues working within local transport bodies across the North. We will not replace or replicate the work of existing local transport bodies. Our role is to add strategic value by ensuring that funding and strategy decisions about transport in the North are informed by local knowledge and requirements. This fits with the devolution agenda and we will draw powers down from central government rather than up from local government.

Our vision is of a thriving North of England, where modern transport connections drive economic growth and support an excellent quality of life.

TfN’s Transport Analysis, Modelling and Economics (TAME) team is split into three closely related core activities of:

• data analytics & modelling;
• technical management and assurance; and
• economic planning and analysis.

Whilst TAME officers can expect to be involved across all three activities role profiles are tailored primarily to one activity, with this role tailored towards technical management and assurance.

The TAME team works closely with our strategy and policy makers and managers to analyse and appraise the most appropriate interventions in our future investment portfolio. This includes developing and applying pan-northern data, modelling and appraisal practices to help understand the needs of the economy and transport system, and develop robust evidence.

Overall TAME activities are captured within TfN’s Analytical Framework, that promotes ‘one voice’ for developing evidence. Key to TAME’s activities is to grow our capabilities within the Analytical Framework focused on supporting capabilities and support our existing and emerging programmes. This requires a range of analytical techniques: from acquiring and storing spatially enabled data on contemporary data analytics platforms; to undertaking geo-spatial data analytics and statistical analysis; through to exploring problems, appraising options and providing objective advice.

Transport for the North is looking to recruit the following role:

The Principal Data Analytics and Modelling Officer will be required to lead a team of internal colleagues and manage external contractors whilst delivering information, data, analysis, modelling and appraisal solutions that aid others in the production of recommendations/outputs.

You will be expected to collaborate widely, internally and externally, and will ensure processes and policies are developed, managed and implemented effectively.

What we’re looking for:
The successful candidate will have a strong track record developing and applying modelling and data analytics solutions, in addition to exceptional experience of leading, developing and applying data systems to pull together disparate datasets.

Demonstrable experience of planning and managing projects/programmes of work, developing and managing script for repeatable analysis along with the use of statistical techniques to find trends and insight from data is essential. You must also have the ability to lead the development of complex technical outputs and offer input to the development of strategies, plans and business cases.

As a leader you will be confident representing TfN in public, professional and Stakeholder forums and will be able to demonstrate your effectiveness managing complex working relationships with external and internal stakeholders at a strategic level.

Candidates must be educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant subject, with a professional qualification or equivalent experience.

In return, as well as a competitive salary, our other benefits are:

• 27 days holiday per annum
• Access to the local government pension scheme
• Access to various salary sacrifice benefits, including Travel Pass purchase scheme.

For more information on the role and the kind of person we’re looking for please refer to the role profile and person specification which you can view by clicking here.

If you believe you have the skills and experience we’re looking for please apply online, ensuring that in your application you provide evidence in the form of specific examples of how you meet the essential criteria in the role profile (e.g. E1,E2,E3,E4..).

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