Digital Performance Analyst - Consultant (Contract)

About the Position

Join us as a Digital Performance Analyst - Consultant (Contract) to shape decisions with the power of data. Do you want to turn data into insights that make a real difference? Are you ready to use analytics, KPIs, and storytelling to solve complex problems for our clients in government, healthcare, and purpose-driven businesses?

If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose. As a Data Analyst, you’ll guide better decisions, helping clients to act with insight – and help shape our data practice for the future.

Responsibilities

• Help clients improve their services by selecting the appropriate techniques to turn data into insights.
• Work within a product delivery team to develop performance measuring frameworks to track goals, user needs, or KPIs.
• Operate within the client's requirements and the appropriate legal, technical, and ethical constraints.
• Lead by example and promote Opencast’s approach.
• Mentor junior colleagues, provide constructive feedback, and demonstrate an understanding of each product delivery stage and how to apply appropriate measurements for that phase of work.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience with the GDS toolkit.
• Either currently hold active Security Check (SC) Clearance or be eligible to obtain it.
• Eligibility typically requires UK citizenship and continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days.

Essential Experience

• Worked with data platforms such as Google Analytics, Splunk, Datadog, or similar.
• Used data visualisation tools such as Data Studio to create service performance dashboards.
• Designed and implemented a performance framework including KPIs or OKRs for a service or product.
• Analytical skills in identifying the right data sources and then validate and understand how to interpret the results.
• Collected, collated, cleansed, and interpreted data to derive meaningful and actionable insights.
• An ability to use the most appropriate medium to visualise data to tell compelling and relevant actionable stories.
• Created hypotheses that can be tested, and developed insights based on your findings.
• Working within a GDS delivery environment within a government department.
• Valid Security Clearance or eligibility (5+ years residency in the UK).

Desirable Experience

• Visualising data using Power BI, Tableau, QlikView, Power Query, or similar.
• Scripting and programming languages such as SQL, Python, R, etc.
• Security and data privacy.
• Making recommendations for service changes.

Salary

£400-£500 per day (working Inside IR35).

Where You’ll Work

This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites, and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.

We Include You

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking, and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview

Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.

About the Company

Opencast is a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose. We aim to help create a fairer society for all by delivering impactful solutions to our clients in government, healthcare, and purpose-driven businesses.

Apply Now

Visit our website or email [email protected] to learn more and apply.