JOB SUMMARY

The Royal Navy is responsible for safeguarding the United Kingdom’s national security at sea, protecting global trade routes, and projecting power worldwide. Operating cutting-edge equipment and fielding the UKs nuclear deterrent the Royal Navy is a key NATO member, playing a vital role in international maritime security, counter-piracy, and providing humanitarian aid to global crisis zones.
All of this is only possible due to the combined efforts of the highly trained and motivated people contributing towards achieving Royal Navy success. The People and Training Directorate (P&T) is responsible for attracting, training, and retaining inspired and capable people in an agile and flexible Whole Force environment to enable the Royal Navy to succeed on operations by putting our people capability first.
Based in Navy Command Headquarters (NCHQ) in Whale Island, Portsmouth, the People Intelligence, Insights & Analytics Centre (PIIAC) is P&T’s centre of expertise in all things people data. Capable of analysing and exploiting information, data and knowledge on the workforce and their behaviours, PIIAC enables timely and informed decision making to reassure and protect the workforce; and helps inform the development of best-practice policies and training. The PIIAC also develops and maintains reports and applications to enable self-service and ad-hoc reporting to all levels of seniority from individual localised projects up to central Government.
The analysis and insights you generate at PIIAC can help positively influence and effect the working environments of the thousands of sailors who make up the Royal Navy.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

JOB DESCRIPTION

You will be transforming data into information that can be utilized to make business decisions and actions. The work involves acquiring data from multiple sources, creating reports on a regular basis, correcting any code issues, and ensuring that databases remain error-free and organized. You will perform a range of activities from simple analysis in Microsoft Excel through to designing, building and implementing bespoke analytics architecture in the RNs Oracle based People analytics system. As well as other analytics software utilised within the Organisation and requires the jobholder to be organized, have strong mathematical abilities and work well as part of a team. The Data Analyst is responsible for presenting large amounts of information in ways that are universally understandable and easy to interpret and digest for the end user. Specifically, they should be able to:

• Manipulate, analyse and interpret complex data sets relating to the Organisation.
• Mine and analyse large datasets, draw valid inferences and present them successfully to management using reporting tools.
• Prepare reports for internal and external audiences using business analytics reporting tools.
• Create data dashboards, graphs and visualisations.
• Make large and/or complex data more accessible, understandable and usable through visual medium.
• Leverage PIIAC capabilities, provide insights and recommendations to improve Organisational operations and decision making.
• Gather and collate contextual knowledge required in order to develop data narratives.
• Oversee and coordinate projects between the PIIAC and the RN e.g. strategic projects that require or impact PIIAC capability.
• Collaborate with relevant functions, teams and special projects.
• Negotiate and inform customers with regards to changes in services and corresponding impact.

EXPERIENCE:

• Essential:
• Collaborative and independent working in an administrative or clerical environment.
• Delivering to deadlines.
• Customer communication and interaction in challenging situations.
• Independently driven learning and development.
• Desirable:
• Collaborative and independent working in a military, defence or security focused environment.
• Track record of successful project delivery.
• Management and engagement of high-profile stakeholders throughout project life cycle.
• Independently driven learning and development in a professional setting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Logical and creative thinking - Skill level: Practitioner
• IT and mathematics - Skill level: Practitioner

BENEFITS

Alongside your salary of £36,530, Ministry of Defence contributes £10,582 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
As a Civil Servant in Navy Command, you will be part of a forward-looking organisation with inclusive workplace policies, excellent career prospects, and in a job that makes a difference. Navy Command prides itself on being a supportive employer and where possible encourages flexible working, helping you to maintain a great work/life balance.

Other benefits for Navy Command civil servants include:

• 25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service
• A very competitive pension scheme
• Personal & professional development
• Alternative working patterns for many roles
• Access to a confidential, professional support service
• Discount schemes
• Bicycle / season-ticket loans
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Special paid leave to volunteer (up to 6 days a year)

Our headquarters in Portsmouth offers an impressive range of on-site facilities including a gymnasium, tennis courts, and other sporting facilities, a children’s nursery, a bistro restaurant, a shop and plenty of car parking spaces. Many of our locations also offer a similar range of facilities.
In Navy Command we believe that everyone has the potential to make a difference and you will be supported through your learning journey and your career. This can include working towards membership of a professional body and/or undertaking an apprenticeship as part of your role.
You will have access to a variety of qualifications pathways ranging from GCSE/A-Level equivalent all the way up to master’s degree, depending on your role, your previous skills and your experience. Some qualifications even include “on-the-job” training which means minimal disruption to your working day but maximum impact.
The post does not offer relocation expenses.
External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.
Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.
Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.
Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.
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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

You will be transforming data into information that can be utilized to make business decisions and actions. The work involves acquiring data from multiple sources, creating reports on a regular basis, correcting any code issues, and ensuring that databases remain error-free and organized. You will perform a range of activities from simple analysis in Microsoft Excel through to designing, building and implementing bespoke analytics architecture in the RNs Oracle based People analytics system. As well as other analytics software utilised within the Organisation and requires the jobholder to be organized, have strong mathematical abilities and work well as part of a team. The Data Analyst is responsible for presenting large amounts of information in ways that are universally understandable and easy to interpret and digest for the end user. Specifically, they should be able to:

• Manipulate, analyse and interpret complex data sets relating to the Organisation.
• Mine and analyse large datasets, draw valid inferences and present them successfully to management using reporting tools.
• Prepare reports for internal and external audiences using business analytics reporting tools.
• Create data dashboards, graphs and visualisations.
• Make large and/or complex data more accessible, understandable and usable through visual medium.
• Leverage PIIAC capabilities, provide insights and recommendations to improve Organisational operations and decision making.
• Gather and collate contextual knowledge required in order to develop data narratives.
• Oversee and coordinate projects between the PIIAC and the RN e.g. strategic projects that require or impact PIIAC capability.
• Collaborate with relevant functions, teams and special projects.
• Negotiate and inform customers with regards to changes in services and corresponding impact