Principal Analyst

About us

As a department our purpose is to help the community to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from the impact of fire and emergency events.

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) is the primary provider of fire, rescue and emergency management programs and services throughout Queensland. The department encompasses the Fire and Rescue Service, disaster management services, the Rural Fire Service and the State Emergency Service, and also supports other volunteer groups providing emergency response to Queenslanders.

QFES is one department with many services, many capabilities and many partners.

Purpose of the role

Strategic Intelligence and Planning is responsible for the design, development and implementation of best practice approaches, frameworks and guidelines for organisational strategy and ensures compliance with legislative requirements and alignment to government policy. The Analytics team works closely with internal and external stakeholders to support alignment of strategic planning and thinking, leads strategic foresight initiatives, including environment and horizon scanning that supports and informs business intelligence to support and enhance decision making and ensure QFES is able to prepare and respond to changes in the broader disaster and emergency management environment.

Reporting to the Executive Manager, you will be a key member of the team delivering Analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions. You will contribute to high level statistical analysis and strategic advice to enable the delivery of analytics and BI capabilities to guide evidenced-based decision-making, and will be responsible for the provision of strategies, processes, data, products, insights and recommendations which are used to support and enhance the collection, analysis, presentation, interpretation and dissemination of business information, across all levels of the department.

Key requirements

Highly desirable requirements
- Knowledge and experience in statistical data modelling, gathering and data analysis and business intelligence design and solutions.
- Knowledge and understanding of project management methodologies.

Your key accountabilities

Your part in the ongoing success of our department, in supporting frontline services will see you responsible for a variety of work, including, but not limited to:

- Lead projects and contribute to the design and implementation of best practice approaches, frameworks and guidelines for performance management and business intelligence.
- Provide strategic advice for the design and analysis of designated projects, utilising BI tools and for the collation and graphical compilation of statistics and information, and the appropriate interpretation of statistics for use in strategy design and monitoring.
- Investigate alternate data sources to enhance reporting and research outcomes with a focus on organisational priorities.
- Liaise, consult and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to develop effective solutions regarding the acquisition, analysis and use of data to streamline and integrate information to deliver customer focused BI solutions.
- Identify emerging trends and issues from information management systems, providing solutions and expert advice to influence effective decision-making that aligns to organisational priorities and objectives.
- Prepare and review, reports, briefing notes, submissions, and other correspondence relating to strategic intelligence and data analytics, in accordance with departmental requirements and governance.
- Contribute to effective, customer focused teamwork by developing an understanding team roles and work collaboratively to achieve outcomes with a commitment to quality service delivery.

Capabilities

To determine your suitability for the role, you will be assessed on the following Leadership Competencies for Queensland behavioural profiles that link to the "key accountabilities" for this role:
Leadership Competency Stream - Individual Contributor (leading self)
Vision
- Leads strategically
- Stimulates ideas and innovation

Results
- Builds enduring relationships
- Drives accountability and outcomes

Accountability
- Fosters healthy and inclusive workplaces
- Demonstrates sound governance

Once you join us we will want you to exemplify the QFES shared values:

- Respect
- Integrity
- Trust
- Courage
- LoyaltyThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.