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Pay
- £51,854 – £55,717 a year
Job type
- Part-time
- Permanent
- Full-time
Location
Belfast BT2 8BG
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- Pay rise
- Company pension
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Details
Reference number
411805
Salary
£51,854 – £55,717
Successful candidates will be offered the minimum of the pay scale and in some circumstances salary negotiations will be dependent on the demonstration of skills and experience. All our roles come with an excellent benefits’ package, including the generous Civil Service Pension Scheme. Further salary increases depend entirely upon the outcome of our annual pay negotiation with central government. If you are a current Civil Servant transferring to us, your salary will be discussed in line with our pay policies.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
GBP
Job grade
Senior Executive Officer
E (IT)
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
CH – Digital Services – Data Directorate
Type of role
Architecture and Data
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time
Number of jobs available
1
Contents
- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know
- Apply and further information
Location
Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT2 8BG : Cardiff, Wales, CF14 3UZ : Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 8FT
About the job
Job summary
We are looking for a data enthusiast who enjoys engaging with stakeholders to help them understand and realise the value of data.
This is an exciting time to join the Data Transformation team in Companies House as we are in a period of organisation wide transformation and you would be at the centre of our data transformation work. The use and interpretation of data is key to the success of this delivery and as such this role provides the post holder with a fantastic opportunity to help shape this.
Job description
As a Data Business Partner in this exciting area you will be a skilled data professional acting as the primary interface between the Data team and business areas. You will be an advocate for obtaining value from data, and partner with projects and business areas as representatives of the data governance processes at Companies House. You will help drive performance through analysing, interpreting and communicating data to support decision making.
You will:
- Act as single point of contact for one or more business areas or projects, engaging with them to understand their priorities and how data and analysis can support them
- Be the subject matter expert on Data Governance processes at Companies House and how they apply to the business areas or projects
- Deliver presentations and training sessions on Data Governance at Companies House
- Recognise the need for and engage with the relevant data professionals for collaboration on data initiatives
- Facilitate workshops to understand and map out the impact of business or project work on our data
- Facilitate, gather and articulate data requirements across the data lifecycle and all areas of data management
- Contribute to the review, update and roll out of data governance documentation
- Commission expert technical analysis from others in the team
- Undertake analysis relating to own (or other) business area(s)
- Working across the Data Team to develop a framework for managing demand for data services
- Occasionally deputise for the Head of Data Strategy
Person specification
To be successful in this role:
- You will enjoy working with non-technical colleagues to help them understand and apply data governance
- You will be confident communicating and working with colleagues across and at all levels of the organisation.
- You can understand and operationalise governance across the data life cycle.
- You can review compliance or performance against the data life cycle, assess data quality, and log and triage data issues for resolution.
- You can communicate why data is so important for Companies House and the UK government.
- You can raise awareness and establish a foundational level of data literacy across the organisation through sharing knowledge, principles and practices.
- You will have the ability to think analytically about data – identifying key trends and communicating findings to non-technical colleagues.
- You will work collaboratively with cross government data communities to ensure Companies House’s strategic direction is aligned with the National Data Strategy.
You will have:
- Excellent problem-solving/critical-thinking skills
- Excellent communication & stakeholder management skills
- Excellent leadership skills
- Strong enthusiasm for driving change
- Strong analytical thinking skills
Experience
You will have:
- Experience of working with a broad range of stakeholders at all levels of seniority.
- Experience of delivering change improvement through projects
You may have:
- Experience of working within an Agile environment
- Experience of working within the Data Governance/Data Management profession
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
Technical skills
We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Communicating between the technical and non-technical
- Data governance.
- Stakeholder relationship management.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £51,854, Companies House contributes £15,022 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
We believe that our success is driven by the well-being and satisfaction of our team members at all levels of the organisation. At Companies House we’re committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary, ensuring your career journey with us is not only fulfilling, but also rewarding. We pride ourselves on offering a quality work-life balance with our employee wellbeing being central to our working practices.
Head to Our benefits – Working for us – Recruitment (companieshouse.gov.uk) to find out more about the fantastic benefits package we have at Companies House.
We celebrate diversity…
As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity, being committed to ensuring we’re representative of the citizens we serve and creating an inclusive environment. Everyone in Companies House brings something different, and so will you. To fulfil our commitment to recruiting and attracting diverse talent we welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We also welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
We are proud to be a disability confident leader. Our recruitment process is fully inclusive and we can make adjustments as needed through our process. These could include having an interview buddy, extra time at interviews/assessments and receiving interview questions in advance, to name a few.
If you require any reasonable adjustments at application stage, or if you’d like to discuss any person-centred adjustments, please contact us by emailing recruitmentCH@companieshouse.gov.uk.
Read our ‘Applying under the Disability Confidence Scheme (DCS)’ guide to find out how to successfully complete an application under the Disability Confidence Scheme (DCS).
Where will you be working?
You will be aligned to either our Cardiff, Edinburgh or Belfast office, where you will be expected to attend on a regular basis. We are currently using a hybrid approach to the way we work which provides opportunities for you to be adaptable in the way you work so that you can achieve a healthy balance between your work and home life. The degree of choice you have will depend on your role and your day-to-day work activities. Your manager will agree regular patterns of attendance with you, however you may be required to make yourself available to attend the office more frequently when required to meet business needs.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.
In your application form we’d like you to:
- Tell us about your employment history, including any key responsibilities and achievements that align to the technical and experience criteria listed in the advert.
- Write a personal statement of 1,250 words with examples to demonstrate the technical and experience criteria listed in the Person Specification.
- Provide three 250 word examples to demonstrate each behaviour: Communicating and Influencing, Working Together & Managing a Quality Service
What will the process look like?
- We will sift applications and then invite successful candidates from the sift stage to attend a virtual interview, using Microsoft Teams. At interview, candidates will be assessed against the Behaviours listed in the advert and we will use Success Profiles: Behaviours, Technical and Strengths.
- If we receive a high volume of applications, we will undertake a pre-sift of the criteria: Stakeholder relationship management: You can identify, analyse, manage and monitor relationships with and between stakeholders. You can communicate with stakeholders clearly and regularly, clarifying mutual needs and commitments through consultation and consideration of impacts, while concentrating on user needs.
- There will be a presentation as part of the interview – details will be provided to candidates invited to interview.
Read more information and guidance about Applying for Your New Job.
Companies House uses a blended interview technique, allowing us to find out more about you. We use the Success Profile framework and may include Strength based questions in the interview.
Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of recruitment based on fair and open competition with decisions made on the basis of merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles.
Key dates (dates are indicative only and could be subject to change)
- Closing Date: 29 June 2025 (at 23:55)
- Sift/Shortlist: w/c 30 June 2025
- Interview: w/c 14 July 2025
Working Hours
This is a full time position of 37 hours per week. For any candidates interested in part time, the minimum hours per week we would be able to accommodate due to the nature of the role and team structure, is 30 hours.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
We understand that you might use AI and other resources for your application; however, please ensure all information you provide is factually accurate, truthful, and original and doesn’t include ideas or work that isn’t your own. This is so that your application is authentically and credibly your own. Your application may be rejected if evidence of plagiarism or reliance on AI is detected. Examples include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence (AI), as your own. If you are invited to interview, please be aware the use of AI tools is prohibited (including recording or note taking) and any suspected use may result in the termination of your interview and subsequent withdrawal from the campaign.
More information on the ways you should and shouldn’t use AI can be found here.
Sponsorship
Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. Companies House holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify. Should you apply for this role and require sponsorship, your application may be rejected, and any provisional offers of employment withdrawn.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements for Security Check (SC) before they can be appointed.
To gain SC clearance you will normally need to have been a UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and will need to successfully complete all stages of the vetting process. More information can be found at National security vetting: clearance levels – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Nationality statement
Candidates will be subject to UK immigration requirements as well as Civil Service nationality rules. If you’re applying for a role requiring security clearance, please be aware that foreign or dual nationality is not an automatic bar. However certain posts may have restrictions which could affect those who do not have sole British nationality or who have personal connections with certain countries outside the UK.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .
See our vetting charter .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
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
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Jade Palmer
- Email : jpalmer1@companieshouse.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : RecruitmentCH@companieshouse.gov.uk
Further information
We welcome applications from Welsh speakers. Selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit, on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. In accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles, our recruitment and selection processes are underpinned by the requirement of appointment on the basis of merit by fair and open competition. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact infopoint@companieshouse.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive you can contact the Civil Service Commission . info@csc.gov.uk
