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On behalf of UKRI we are looking for a Data Risk Business Analyst (Inside IR35) for a 4 month contract. Hybrid working with occasional travel to Bristol. 

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.

UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers’ money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields – from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies.

The REF Data Quality and Assurance Team is responsible for audit, library and information governance tasks throughout this complex, large-scale project. Delivering this work requires a degree of autonomy, with team member proactively engaging colleagues across the REF project to gather accurate information and ensure that data risk assessments reflect UKRI and RE information governance approach and data protection principles, even when they are not themselves subject matter specialists.

If you are looking for a short-term opportunity, working in a fast-paced environment, to develop or consolidate skills and experience relating to project management and data risk assessment for a large project, this could be for you.

As a Data Risk Business Analyst your main responsibilities will be to:

• Develop a working knowledge of REF 2029 data collection processes and requirements, ensuring an up‑to‑date understanding of how data is used and governed across the exercise.
• Build a clear and practical mapping of REF data flows, engaging with colleagues to ensure accurate interpretation and application across project activities.
• Review existing risk assessments, identifying where they should be strengthened, aligned, or consolidated, and report on progress to senior colleagues as required.
• Produce new, well‑structured risk assessments to address identified gaps, ensuring these are communicated effectively to relevant internal stakeholders.
• Act as the key liaison with UKRI Information Governance, ensuring timely engagement, clear communication, and coordinated delivery of agreed actions.
• Where required, draft and maintain the associated transparency statements, ensuring accuracy, clarity and alignment with existing ones.

Essential

• Ability to write clear and accurate documentation, including procedures, risk assessments, flowcharts and structured materials.
• Self starter – able to work independently, prioritise effectively, and manage workload in a fast paced environment with changing priorities.
• Ability to quickly learn new processes and subject areas, applying new information with confidence.
• A creative, flexible and positive approach to problem solving, showing initiative and managing ambiguity.
• Team player, able to collaborate effectively and adapt to other sub-teams’ ways of working to gather the information needed.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build constructive working relationships across teams and engage colleagues to gather the information needed to progress tasks.

Desirable:

• Public Sector experience.
• Experience of working with data, spreadsheets or databases, maintaining accurate records and ensuring clarity of information.
• Willingness to develop an understanding of information‑governance and data‑protection principles, applying them thoughtfully to project tasks without needing prior specialist expertise.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, UKRI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".