Medior Data Analyst Environmental Policy

The organisation is a Flemish government agency committed to a high-quality living environment and the sustainable use of natural resources. It consists of several divisions, each contributing to the achievement of the organisation's objectives.

Within one of the organisation's policy divisions, the volume of data underpinning policy processes is growing rapidly: monitoring data, permitting data from the digital permitting platform, and spatial and administrative datasets. Processing, checking, linking and making this data accessible requires considerable and recurring effort. Today, subject-matter experts often take on this work themselves, leaving them less time for policy development, interpretation and strategic files.

The division is therefore looking for a data analyst to support these operational data activities across the entire division.

• You process and validate data from various sources.
• You link this data spatially and administratively.
• You help transform it into overviews, maps, indicators and basic reports for policy questions, reporting obligations and questions from the press, parliament and local authorities.
• You handle quick, short-term analysis requests arising from ongoing policy processes.

Concrete applications include:

• soil monitoring: soil databases and the European Soil Monitoring Law
• an updatable report per special protection area for the nitrogen approach
• analyses to support the spatial policy plan, such as trends in the housing market, the Flemish government's real estate portfolio and farmers who are ceasing their activities

You work closely with the subject-matter experts and the division's other data analysts.