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About Hackney Education:
Hackney Education provides a range of services to support the education of children, young people and adults in our inner London borough. Hackney is one of the UK’s highest performing local authorities, serving one of London’s best places to live and work. Within our diverse borough we serve a wide range of children and young people. We have a particular focus on supporting less advantaged families: Hackney figures in the 10% most deprived boroughs in England on a number of measures.
Hackney Education’s key priority is to improve the life chances of every child, young person and learner: making Hackney the most forward looking education system in the UK, where schools, settings and partners provide an exciting environment which ensures inclusion and success for everyone. We see our borough as being one of the best places in the country for young people to grow, learn, develop and achieve –and one of the best places for colleagues to work and thrive in our education system.
The postholder will support the Children and Education (C&E) Directorate fulfil its improvement pledges, to “use data and contextual information to identify and enable strategies where significant groups of pupils are falling behind, or gaps are not closing.” And to … “enable and support colleagues to use data and have a single view of the child through system development. We will further develop and embed collaborative approaches across the system with schools and settings.”
Reporting to the Synergy System Manager, the successful candidate will provide teams with support to maintain and where required improve the quality of the data captured within the Synergy system. This will include the delivery of training to colleagues and partners that make use of Synergy. They will also help senior managers through the provision of Synergy derived management information to guide better decision making.
Candidates selected for interview will demonstrate:
- Experience of using Access UK Ltd’s Synergy product
- Excellent analytical skills
- Ability to manage a complex range of tasks simultaneously, effectively prioritising and delivering on time to a high quality
- Excellent customer service skills with the ability to work with staff/customers at all levels
- Strong Excel skills (or Google Sheets)
- Proactive, with the ability to work on own initiative to produce results
For an informal discussion about the role before 15 December or after 09 January 2023, please contact Chris Marriott ([email protected]).
Recruitment Process & Indicative Timeline
Technical testing: a short multiple choice test on the Synergy application
Interview date: week commencing 30 January 2023. The interview will be a panel interview.
Please note that these dates are only indicative at this stage and could be subject to change.
Hybrid working pattern with at least 2 days a week in the office, 1 Reading Lane/HSC Service Centre, 1 Hillman Street, Hackney
Future working arrangements are still to be confirmed. It is expected that this role will be based at Hackney Service Centre (HSC), 1 Hillman Street in Hackney, for 2 days per week in the office, plus remote working the remaining 3 days if desired. Note that we also welcome those interested in other flexible working arrangements.
This is a fixed term,18 month contract.
Interview date: Week commencing 30 January 2023.
Further Information:
We are also working towards our vision, which is to be a place for everyone; where residents and staff can be proud; a place that celebrates diversity and where everyone can feel valued, included and involved. In order to achieve this, we look for people who are: Proud; Ambitious; Pioneering; Open; Proactive; Inclusive.
Hackney Council works to eradicate discrimination on the basis of race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, age and marital status. We also recognise that people can be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will also work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. We also welcome those interested in flexible working. We particularly welcome applications from disabled people and people from a black and ethnic minority background as these groups are currently under represented in our workforce.
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