Performance Analyst

Do you want to join a growing department within the new Directorate of the Chief of Staff?

We are looking for talented Performance Analysts who relish the huge sense of purpose that comes with helping us to achieve our vision of becoming an outstanding police service for everyone. You will be helping to shape and deliver a new Performance Analysis capability, which will provide high quality actionable performance and insight products to the organisation to inform and influence decision making across a range of boards and committees.

We want to create a team with a diverse range of skills, experience and knowledge, either with a background in the public sector, or who may have never worked in our sector before. We recognise and value the range of different lived experiences that individuals have, and how this can generate diversity of thought and perspective.

We encourage candidates to apply who have an inquisitive and questioning mind-set and will use evidence to challenge and generate insight for improvement and change. We are keen to develop and invest in your skills, and so invite applicants who believe they have the right values and innate critical thinking and analytical skills.

Performance Analysts are members of the Performance and Insight Department and are valued for their ability to problem solve through engaging with people and gaining understanding from data.

You will have the potential to work effectively on a varied range of business challenges spanning multiple functions across the constabulary. Ensuring that the organisation is able to make decisions based on evidenced hypotheses, you will work collaboratively with other teams and departments to deliver high quality holistic products, transform data into useful insights, and carry out strategic scanning and forecasting in both a proactive way and also to service requests from across the organisation.

You will play a key part in developing, maturing and monitoring performance frameworks and Key Performance Indicators, providing ethical performance management analysis and insight. Your work will enable the constabulary to have data driven ways of working across all levels of the organisation.

Your delivery of high quality products and services will drive improvement activity achieving the critical success factors required for outstanding policing. A typical work package may, for example, involve reviewing topics as varied as Victim Satisfaction, Workforce Representation, Hate Crime, Responding to Calls for Service, Summer Demand Management, Personal Development Planning, Neighbourhood Crime, and Domestic Abuse, to name but a few.

If you want to go home challenged and satisfied every day, working for an organisation that has a clear vision in providing outstanding policing for everyone, you won’t want to miss this opportunity.

This role will be based at our headquarters in Portishead with an expectation that you are able to travel around the constabulary. However, we do provide the ability to work remotely and flexibly, and in light of the current COVID-19 situation most staff are currently working from home.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience required:-

• Excellent IT skills including extensive experience using all common Microsoft packages including Excel
• Excellent interpersonal skills - including verbal and written communication, presentation skills
• Experience of collating, processing and analysing both quantitative and qualitative data; including experience of statistical analysis
• Experience of identifying, documenting and verifying strategic or tactical performance issues
• Experience of working in an advisory / consultancy capacity - able to demonstrate professional credibility with colleagues and stakeholders

We anticipate this vacancy to have a vetting level of RV which will be confirmed later in the recruitment process.  This means that to be eligible to apply for these roles you must have a 3 year ‘checkable history’ in the UK – ideally this means that you would have been resident in the UK for the last 3 years.

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