The public sector client is looking to recruit a Principal Information Analyst for a 6 month temporary contract based in Leeds. The successful candidate will have a valid DBS. Please Note: This assignment sits inside IR35.

• Evidence of active engagement with stakeholders and negotiation skills and commitment to meeting stakeholder expectations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to choose content and style to suit the audience, including large groups.
• Significant experience of leading on a range of projects, including the allocation of work to other staff, to deliver quality outcomes to deadline and identifying risks.
• Experience developing processes and procedures to ensure the effective, efficient and robust collection of data.
• Experience of overseeing an analytical service delivery including the regular production of statistical products and publications.
• Experience of using statistical packages e.g. SAS, SPSS, Working with R or Python OR experience of using SQL
• Proven ability to adapt technical thinking at pace in a fast-changing environment.
• Proficient in identifying and defining the resources needed to deliver to a specification

The principal information analyst is in the Population health, Clinical Audit and Specialist Care team. This post is within the publications and adhocs squad leading on a range of analytical development projects including::
• Automation of publications production processes, including supporting migration away from SAS where appropriate, with a particular focus on population health publications.
• Leading on building reproducible analytical pipelines to create data outputs and publications
• Stakeholder engagement and interpreting customer requirements, writing appropriate specifications and leading on the delivery of the requirements across a range of datasets and outputs.
• Leading on improvements to the data visualisations and display of data in official statistics releases, across a wide variety of health topics