Principal Data Analyst

2 weeks ago


Sydney Western Suburbs, Australia NSW Office of Local Government Full time

**_Together we shape thriving communities, public spaces, places and economies._**
- **A key role analysing performance insights across local councils for the Office of Local Government**:

- **Aboriginal targeted opportunity, Ongoing full-time**:

- **Office location - Parramatta, Nowra with other NSW Office locations negotiable**:

- **Salary relative to experience, ranging from $125,693 to $138,510 + super**

**What’s in it for me?**
Join our team for a **fantastic culture** with dynamic collaboration and **genuine long-term career support**. We offer **flexibility in work arrangements**, diverse and fulfilling assignments, and prioritise **work/life balance**and wellbeing with initiatives like flex leave and access to support programs. Additionally, we are committed to **fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace** where everyone feels welcome, respected, and empowered to succeed.

The Office of Local Government (OLG) is a small, yet diverse agency of professionals invested in creating healthy and prosperous communities across NSW. Through the development of policy, programs, strong relationships, engagement and intervention, OLG is a driver of reform and uplift across the state, with a purpose of fostering a strong and sustainable local government sector.

In early 2025 OLG is undergoing a period of growth. There’s never been a better time to join a diverse, welcoming and fulfilling agency that helps build healthy and prosperous communities across NSW.

**This is a targeted role under GSE Rule 26 and Aboriginal people are encouraged to apply.**

**The role**
As a Principal Data Analyst, you'll be diving into complex local council data to identify key performance indicators and trends, helping to improve monitoring, evaluation, and risk mitigation. Your role involves developing and implementing data systems and strategies, ensuring data quality, and producing insightful reports and visualisations to meet business needs. You’ll be pivotal to driving strong, insightful and reliable data that can inform decision-making both at the state and local government levels.

You'll face challenges like balancing competing demands, providing clear advice in a dynamic environment, and ensuring data integrity while adhering to best practices and governance frameworks. Your ability to communicate effectively, collaborate with stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement will be crucial to your success.

For more information read the full Role Description: Principal Data Analyst

**About You**:

- Demonstrated experience in data analysis and reporting to providing insights for improved monitoring and evaluation.
- Capable of driving system development and quality assurance through best practice methodologies and industry standards
- Outstanding stakeholder engagement skills, fostering strong relationships and ensuring alignment with diverse stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

**Essential requirements**:

- Tertiary qualifications in Statistics, Mathematics, Finance, Social Science, Actuary, Engineering, Computer Science, or Econometrics disciplines, or equivalent experience

**About us**
The Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI) improves the liveability and prosperity of NSW. To achieve this, we: create vibrant, productive spaces and precincts; manage lands, assets and property effectively and deliver affordable and diverse housing. We strive to be a high-performing, world-class public service organisation that celebrates and reflects the full diversity of the community we serve and builds the cultural capability of our department to improve outcomes with and for Aboriginal people, communities and entities.

We are an inclusive and accessible workplace, where your individual contributions are valued, and where everyone is encouraged to feel a sense of connection and belonging. DPHI supports various employee affinity groups, practices flexible working, offers job share and workplace adjustments.

As part of DPHI, the Office of Local Government (OLG) is the NSW Government’s frontline interface with councils, their 50,000 employees, and their elected officials across the state. Its goal is to build a strong, responsible and sustainable local government sector, with its purpose to ensure councils all over NSW can continue to effectively deliver infrastructure, services and civic leadership to their communities.

**Join us**

Applications close **Tuesday 18th March 2025 at 11:55pm**
- A recruitment pool may be created for ongoing and temporary opportunities of the same role or role type that may become available over the next 18 months._



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