JOB SUMMARY

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital centre of government. We are responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government.

Our priorities are to drive a modern digital government, by:

• joining up public sector services
• harnessing the power of AI for the public good
• strengthening and extending our digital and data public infrastructure
• elevating leadership and investing in talent
• funding for outcomes and procuring for growth and innovation
• committing to transparency and driving accountability

We are home to the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (I.AI), the world-leading GOV.UK and at the forefront of coordinating the UK’s geospatial strategy and activity. We lead the Government Digital and Data function and champion the work of digital teams across government.
We’re part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and employ more than 1,000 people all over the UK, with hubs in Manchester, London and Bristol.
The Government Digital Service is where talent translates into impact. From your first day, you’ll be working with some of the world’s most highly-skilled digital professionals, all contributing their knowledge to make change on a national scale.
Join us for rewarding work that makes a difference across the UK. You’ll solve some of the nation’s highest-priority digital challenges, helping millions of people access services they need

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Performance Analyst you :

• are proficient in a wide range of tools and ensure that the team is equipped with the required skills according to the strategy set out by the Lead Performance Analyst
• are skilled and experienced at carrying out the day-to-day activities of a performance analyst, including visualising and communicating insight, while also carrying out increasingly complex analysis working with other teams where necessary
• are actively contribute to the performance analysis community within their department or organisation, while forging links with other analytical disciplines and up-skill others in analysis where possible and appropriate
• have experience of working on GA4 data layer implementations from start to finish, including planning, designing schema, deployment, and ongoing optimisation.Good working understanding of GA4’s architecture, event tracking, and custom dimensions/metrics
• have good technical skills in Google Tag Manager (GTM) and SQL, enabling you to implement and troubleshoot GA4 tagging, and an awareness of JavaScript, HTML
• have experience feeding into data architecture plans that ensures accurate and reliable data collection. Experience in setting up and maintaining data validation processes specific to GA4, with the ability to contribute to data processing pipelines that create clean, and useful analytics outputs

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

The standard selection process for roles at GDS consists of:

• a simple application screening process - We only ask for a CV and two role specific questions
• Initial Screening - 30 minutes video call to discuss application
• 60 minute interview by video call, this includes a task. The information of the task will be sent to all selected candidates in advanc

For this role we’ll be assessing you against the following Civil Service Behaviours:

• working together
• changing and improving
• delivering at pace
• communicating and influencin

We’ll also be assessing your experience and specialist technical skills against the following skills defined in the Government Digital and Data Capability Framework for the Performance Analyst role:

• Analysis and insight
• Communicating analysis and insight
• Performance measurement
• Technical understanding (performance analyst)
• User-centred analysi