ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The department provides a wide range of learning and development support and services.
The department provides policy leadership, plans for the future of education in Victoria and leads key cross-sector collaboration. The department plays an important system steward role by providing support, guidance, oversight and assurance across early childhood and school education systems, as well as directly providing school education and 50 new early learning centres.

ATTRIBUTES

We’re seeking someone with extensive data analytics experience. The ideal candidate will have at least 4 years of experience in:

• Querying, joining and manipulating data using SQL
• Data analysis and visualisation in R (preferred) and Power BI
• Statistical analysis, including forcasting and analysis using propensity matching approaches

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Senior Analyst supports the work of the Analytics team by leading quantitative analysis projects requiring data acquisition, transformation, statistical analysis and visualisation. The role works with data from surveys, achievement tests and administrative systems and requires thoughtful and effective integration of multiple datasets to derive meaningful insights.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

• Working with program areas to design analyses to support investment and implementation decisions
• Responding to ad-hoc analytical requests
• Presenting insights to senior stakeholders.