Senior Data Analyst - Reporting And Insights

Please respond to the job if you are an Australian Citizen residing in Australia with the ability to obtain Baseline Clearance.

• Contract start 16 January 2023 To 12 months, 12 months extensions.
• Australian Citizen, Ability to obtain Baseline Clearance, Penrith, Parramatta, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart or Darwin role.

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Overview
A.A.2 The Requirement
Organisational context:
Policy, Markets and Insight Division
The Policy, Markets and Insight Division supports the NDIS Commissions delivery of legislative functions through strategic policy development and advice focussed particularly on the regulatory framework, the provider market and workforce quality; data and analysis activities and other major projects and initiatives.
This includes innovative and strategic thinking, data analysis and evidence reviews, to solve complex policy issues that facilitate upholding the rights of people with disability through regulation of the NDIS market, to enable the provision of safe and quality supports.
The Division supports the NDIS Commissioner with inquiries and reviews, delivery of NDIS workforce initiatives and administration of the NDIS support for providers grants program.
The Policy, Markets and Insight Division consists of the following:

• Regulatory Framework
• Participant Rights
• Provider Market
• Workforce Quality
• Data and Insights

Data and Insights
The Data and Insights Team is responsible for the delivery of high-quality analytics that underpin data-driven decision-making and enables the Commission to ensure people with disability receive quality and safe supports and services under the NDIS.
The team is accountable for data management and modelling, providing business intelligence to operational units, reporting on key metrics and trends and developing models to facilitate safeguarding. The team also provides regular, reliable and accurate data to senior leadership.
Senior Data AnalystReporting and Insights
Key duties:

• Contribute to the development of systems for the extraction, linkage, management, monitoring, analysis and reporting of relevant data.

• Undertake statistical analyses of NDIS Quality and Safeguards data and associated datasets.

• Provide analytical expertise to support the evaluation and reporting of NDIS Quality and Safeguards data and associated datasets.

• Contribute to the development and implementation of the data and analytics function, including the development and tracking of key indicators.

• Contribute to the preparation of analytics reports for a varied audience, including routine reporting on key Commission indicators and ministerial briefings.

• Provide subject matter expertise on data analysis and reporting, and the use of data for risk profiling and compliance with Commission rules.

• Provide support and guidance to stakeholders in the interpretation of analytical results

• Contribute to good documentation practices that enable replicable processes for analysis, evaluation, monitoring and quality improvement

Skills, knowledge, and experience:

• Demonstrated proficiency with one or more of the following: R, SQL, Python or data visualisation tools (Qlik Sense would be a bonus).

• Demonstrated ability to develop collaborative and productive working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders on data analytics projects.

• High-level knowledge and skills across a range of data-related functions such as the statistical analysis of large datasets, systems design, data linkage and management.

• Effective written and verbal communications skills, including reporting, presentation and negotiation abilities.

• Highly developed organisational skills and the capacity to manage competing demands and to meet deadlines.

Our ideal candidate will also have:

• Lived experience of disability or demonstrated understanding of disability services in a State or Territory Government context would be an advantage.

• Qualifications in and/or equivalent experience in a discipline such as statistics, epidemiology, social science, psychology, information technology or data analytics.

Note:
The position locations are flexible and may be performed from any of the NDIS Commissions locations in Penrith, Parramatta, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart or Darwin.
How to apply
1. Submit a statement describing how your skills, knowledge, experience would make
you the best person for the role. This statement can be between 500 to 1000 words.
2. Attach an up to date Curriculum Vitae (CV) and the contact details for two referees,
one of whom should be your current (or most recent) supervisor.
Every application requires to address selection criteria as part of application submission
Essential Criteria
for the Senior Data Analyst - Reporting and Insights role the ideal candidate is to;
- Demonstrate proficiency with one or more of the following, R, SLQ, Python or data visualisation tools (Qlik Sense would be a bonus)
- Demonstrated ability to develop collaborative and productive working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders on data analytics projects.
- High-level knowledge and skills across a range of data-related functions such as the statistical analysis of large datasets, systems design, data linkage and management.
- Effective written and verbal communications skills, including reporting, presentation and negotiation abilities, and
- Highly developed organisational skills and the capacity to manage competing demands and to meet deadlines
Desirable Criteria
For role the desirable criteria include the following;
Senior Data AnalystReporting and Insightsour ideal candidate will also have;
Lived experience of disability or demonstrated understanding of disability services in a State or Territory Government context would be an advantage.
Qualifications in and/or equivalent experience in a discipline such as statistics, epidemiology, social science, psychology, information technology or data analytics.