About this job
About Us:
The Department of Education (DoE) is committed to ensuring Queenslanders have the education and skills they need to contribute to the economic and social development of QLD. The Department delivers world-class education services to all students and contributes to the achievement of Queensland's employment, skills and economic priorities. DoE is a large and diverse organisation with a united commitment to teaching and learning environments that are centred around child, student, and staff wellbeing and safety.
The Capability branch is located in the Schools and Student Support Division and is committed to a thriving and capable workforce equipped with the skills and confidence to support every student to realise their potential. A key part of the branch is the Education Futures Institute (EFI) that delivers high-quality, evidence-informed and equitable capability development for a diverse workforce across key career stages.
The EFI provides high quality, targeted professional learning for staff located in metropolitan, regional, rural and remote locations across the state. The EFI empowers staff with the skills, knowledge and capability to excel in their role.
The EFI is a key system initiative in the department's education strategy, Equity and Excellence: Realising the potential of every student.
Your Role
This Principal Officer (Data and Systems) provides essential technical support, data management and systems implementation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Provide expert advice and insights through enhanced data, analytics services and reporting to improve workforce capability development effectiveness in accordance with departmental policies and standards.
- Analyse business requirements and implement improvements to capability development data and information management.
- Contribute to uplifting branch data and analytical capabilities and processes to support data-informed and insights-driven capability development.
- Manage data and information assets, interpreting and visualising data to identify trends and patterns to solve business problems and translating findings.
- Prepare, update and maintain various program and project artefacts including reporting.
The ideal applicant is someone who has:
- Demonstrated experience using business intelligence and Microsoft Office applications in the extraction and manipulation of data across information systems.
- Highly developed system and data analysis experience in the collation and presentation of data to provide clear reporting and insights to support informed decision-making.
- Ability in analytical problem solving, statistical gathering techniques, performance analysis methodologies, report development and critical analysis and evaluation skills.
- Experience leading business process modelling activities for large scale complex organisations and the ability to provide expert advice on the application of appropriate business analysis techniques, methodologies, and tools.
- Effective communication skills and working relationships with a wide variety stakeholders.
- While not mandatory, a relevant qualification and one or more of below skills would be well regarded.
- Knowledge of:
- learning, human resource and event management systems
- capability development process and relevant data flow and standards
- software development and system integration/implementation cycle
- Solid knowledge of information management and privacy requirements and SQL Database structure and development
Interested? To Apply:
- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
- Attach a 2-page response to the How you will be assessed section of the attached role description.
We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.
to the How you will be assessed section of the attached role description.We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.