Principal Data Analyst - Flexible

Job Description

Join the wonderful Innovation team at the Department of Environment, Tourism, Science, and Innovation (DETSI) as a Principal Data Analyst, where your expertise in data analytics and insights will contribute to strategic goals and drive positive change in Queensland.Part of the Program Design and Insights team, you will provide expert, strategic and innovative problem solving and data analytics to lead the design, delivery and continuous improvement of the agency's whole-of-initiative innovation system data collection and reporting processes.This role will be integral to the agency's insights and evaluation functions, including providing qualitative and quantitative analysis to support insights generation and evaluation assessments, including providing expert advice around measurement ranging from program level to system-wide metrics to help achieve strategic goals.You will be a team player and strategic thinker who can lead and oversee projects to review and improve data collection and reporting; use your high-level data analytic skills and knowledge of key data systems and tools to enable impact and trend analysis of program and system-level data.As the Principal Data Analyst, you will lead system-level insights reporting of the agency's innovation initiative.Key Requirements Are To: Provide expert, strategic and innovative problem solving and data analytics to lead the design, delivery and continuous improvement of the agency's whole-of-initiative innovation system data collection and reporting processes. Provide qualitative and quantitative analysis to support insights generation and evaluation assessments, including providing expert advice around measurement ranging from program level to system-wide metrics. Contribute to the reporting of Advance Queensland performance, implementation and impact including efficient collection, collation and aggregation of data to meet business needs. Lead and oversee projects to review, continuously improve and automate where possible the data collection and reporting processes, ensuring quality compliance and governance requirements, including maintaining and upgrading as required existing internal automations associated with the SmartyGrants grants management system. Proactively review, recommend and implement systems, tools and processes to enable trend and impact analysis of program and system-level data. This includes making use of existing datasets Smarty Grants, Dealroom and broader datasets such as ABS plus identifying new datasets of interest. Provide advice and expert review of strategies, reports and relevant datasets to inform Innovation Strategy and Policy development. Respond to regular and ad-hoc information requests relating to the agency's whole-of-initiative innovation performance, implementation and outcomes. Contribute to effective, client-focused teamwork by initiating, influencing and maintaining relationships with team members, other project teams, government agencies, stakeholders, and client groups to develop and maintain effective working relationships and integrity of the overall service. Foster a workplace culture that supports and promotes the interests of First Nations people and actively engage through our work to contribute to better outcomes for First Nations people. The position reports to the Manager, Evaluation and Insights, Program Design and Insights and has no direct reports.Applications to remain current for 12 months.Occupational group: Technical #J-18808-Ljbffr