Data and Improvement Analyst en Cultural Assets

Starting salary: £40158
Contract type: Permanent
Grade: 4
Location: Edinburgh, Stirling, other location in Scotland by agreement (with hybrid working)
Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 35 hours per week 
Interviews: To be held in person at Longmore House, Edinburgh on Monday 17 November 2025.

As a Data and Improvement Analyst at Historic Environment Scotland, you will transform complex datasets into actionable intelligence that informs strategic planning, risk management, and conservation efforts. You will lead data projects, design impactful reports, and collaborate across departments to enhance performance and optimise decision-making. If you're passionate about data, systems improvement, and Scotland’s heritage, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.

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Benefits of joining us at Historic Environment Scotland

• Enrolment onto a Civil Service Pension scheme – 28% employer contribution
• 25 days annual leave, pro-rata (increasing to 30 days after 3 years) + 11.5 public holidays
• Reimbursement for relevant professional subscriptions
• Support for further education and personal development
• Study leave for work related courses
• Flexible working hours (where appropriate)
• Free entry to all of our properties (with up to three guests)
• Free entry to English Heritage, Manx and Cadw properties

Key Responsibilities of this role

Teamwork/Management

• Manage data projects, including planning and stakeholder engagement.

• Provide support to the Strategy, Systems and Standards team as and when required to meet wider team objectives related to business requirements.

• Provide on-going support to the Analytics Manager with conservation reporting as required under Scheme of Delegation, including collation, analysis and presentation of various types of data and information.

Data Handling and Analysis 

• Identify required cleaning and preparation methods and data limitations.

• Identify, collect and migrate data to and from a range of systems. Manipulate and link data to facilitate reporting.

• Undertake exploratory data analysis to provide senior staff with intelligence on risk and compliance matters.

• Provide ad-hoc analytics/insights to support decision-making across all areas of the business.

Reporting 

• Establish organisational data and reporting requirements, working with our Analytics Manager and key internal stakeholders to provide meaningful, timely information.

• Develop and design templates for both static and interactive reports to meet a range of reporting requirements, audience types and levels.

• Communication through oral presentations.

• Working with other members of the Strategy, Systems and Standards Team, to deliver a broad range of on-going (quarterly, annual etc.) reports relating to risk and compliance, and other areas of asset management.

Process and Performance improvement

• Set up or collaborate in systems and process design to ensure it supports reporting needs. 

• Work across business areas to identify and resolve problems associated with data processes and products as they occur to ensure current and accurate data capture and reporting.

• Provide insights during strategic planning by collaborating with others to establish new methods and associated measures for performance monitoring.

Key requirements of the role:

In order for you to be successful in this post, we will be looking for you to submit a cover letter which addresses how you can meet each of the essential and desirable criteria (in up to 1,200 words), using examples of where you have demonstrated these criteria previously. Please ensure that you provide real life examples for each of the criteria to be considered for this post. You can use examples of how you have met this criteria from your work life, home life, education or volunteer experience. Please read our CV and Cover Letter Guidance first before completing, as you will only be eligible for selection if you use examples of how you meet the essential and desirable criteria.

Essential:

• Demonstrate exceptional attention to detail.  

• Demonstrate experience of being resourceful and proactively seeking out answers/options/solutions. 

• Demonstrate through experience, an ability to confidently lead on data analysis projects. 

• Demonstrate experience of delivering technical reports from start to finish with minimal supervision to a high standard of written English. 

• Have experience of tailoring content to different audiences across a range of levels including senior management level.

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills: including PIVOT tables and Power Query. 

• Advanced Microsoft Word skills: including the creation of bespoke styles, and advanced formatting.

• Advanced Power BI skills: including creating informative user-friendly dashboards, and a level of competence in using DAX for creation of bespoke ‘measures’; similar experience with other software packages may be considered as an alternative.

• Demonstrate experience using SQL or Python to clean data.

• Qualifications, skills or experience at SCQF level 9 (e.g. Ordinary Degree) in a relevant subject such as maths, statistics, sciences or transferrable skills in combination with experience working in Data Analyst (or comparable) role. 

Find out more about desirable skills and experience in our full job description here.

We are dedicated to building a workforce which is reflective of diversity within Scotland. We warmly welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, gender or gender identity, religious beliefs, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, or neurodiversity. In support of our Gaelic Language Plan, we welcome applications from Gaelic speakers.

We want every candidate to have the best chance to succeed during the recruitment process. If you require your application in an alternative format, please reach out to us via email at [email protected] or call our Head Office at 0131 668 8600 and speak to a member of our People Team.

Please note that, at this time, we are unfortunately unable to provide sponsorship as part of the recruitment process, therefore you must have current right to work in the UK to be considered for a post.

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