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 an evolving 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.
You will join a team with a diverse range of skills, experience and knowledge. 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 within the Chief of Staff Directorate 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.
This role is a blended working role with a base at our headquarters in Portishead with an expectation that you are able to travel around the constabulary if business needs require.

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Excellent interpersonal abilities, including verbal and written communication, and confident presentation skills
• Proven experience in collating, processing, and analysing both quantitative and qualitative data, including statistical analysis
• Demonstrated ability to identify, document, and verify strategic or tactical performance issues
• Experience working in an advisory or consultancy capacity, with the ability to establish professional credibility with colleagues and stakeholders
• A degree in a relevant subject or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong IT skills, with extensive experience using Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel

The successful candidate for this role will have the opportunity to work from home whilst also at a secondary work location, which will be a police premises. The successful applicant will have the option to discuss working arrangements with their line manager. All applicants must reside within the UK.