About the job

Job summary

We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Do you have experience in quality assuring data, ensuring the integrity and reliability of that data so that a variety of stakeholders can make informed decisions?

Are you someone who can identify and resolve data reconciliation issues effectively?

Can you collaborate well with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative and sustainable solutions?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Job description

Please note: This is a part-time position, if successful you will be required to work 18.5 hours per week covering a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. This salary is pro-rata so is exactly 50% of the full time salary.

The Transport Security Directorate (TSD), works across the Department for Transport (DfT), His Majesty’s Government (HMG) and with partners to mitigate the threats the transport sector faces domestically and internationally.

We are looking for a part-time Performance and Assurance Analyst to join the Aviation Security International Operations (ASIO) division, which sits within TSD. ASIO leads on high profile work to implement and improve the transport sector’s aviation security regimes, as well as working with international partners to raise global standards and build capability in priority countries. As the national security threats to aviation evolve, we are working across DfT to ensure that these issues are reflected in the Department’s work to ensure that we balance UK prosperity with security objectives.

The successful candidate will quality assure the assessments of security capabilities in our priority countries, strictly aligning with guidance established from international regulations to guarantee accuracy. Your role will see you regularly collaborate with other teams to ensure the assessment data collected is of the highest quality. You will work on continuously improving the established guidance. You will think innovatively and be confident to communicate any issues and solutions with teams across the division to enhance overall efficiency and effectiveness in our delivery processes.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Gather, validate, and analyse performance information relating to ASIO business performance both internally and externally.
• Identify and address data reconciliation issues by collaborating with relevant teams and individuals, striving for effective solutions.
• Report on performance metrics, ensuring ASIO leadership team are sighted on areas of sub-optimal outcomes.
• Conduct data assurance across ASIO operations, ensuring compliance with agreed data collation standards. Perform quality assurance on all airport assessments and additional measures activities data, maintaining consistency between scores, narratives, and codified answers.
• Collaborate with the Insight and Product teams within the same value stream to share information and data, facilitating analysis, product development, and thematic activities.
• Actively contribute insights to enhance the overall quality of assessment data and the established guidance that underpins the assessment programme.

For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.

Person specification

About you

We are looking for someone who has exceptional communication skills and can express themselves in a confident and concise manner with colleagues at all levels. You will represent the department both professionally and clearly, ensuring key messages are delivered to both internal and external stakeholders in a timely fashion. You can build rapport quickly with both internal and external stakeholders which enables you to build solid working relationships.

Excellent organisational skills are required and you will be able to manage and filter workflow, as well as organise and prioritise your work to maximise productivity and achieve all deadlines. You will be highly adaptable and flexible, adjusting to the requirements of the role.

Additional Information

A minimum of 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance. 

As a division that works on threat-related issues, we expect our staff to work flexibly and adapt to rapidly changing requirements and priorities across the teams. The nature of the work means that the role may require out of hours working to respond to incidents.

Due to business needs, you may be required to work flexibly to meet demands of the role. This may mean working outside of core business hours. If this is the case, you will, under departmental policies, be able to claim time back for any additional hours worked.

Benefits

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.

Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport . 

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

How to apply

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a CV and Personal Statement.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

When considering applying please look at how your experience relates to the role.

Within your CV and Personal Statement please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following: 

• Experience in quality assuring data, ensuring data integrity and reliability for informed decision-making.
• Proven experience in identifying and resolving data reconciliation issues effectively, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative and sustainable solutions.
• Strong ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams and share subject matter expertise.

Please fully utilise the 750-word count when completing your Personal Statement.

The sift is due to take place from Monday 8th January 2024.

Interviews are likely to be held from Monday 24th January 2024.

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.

The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:

• An Interview.

This interview will be conducted online via MS Teams. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.

You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.

Should you require any further information regarding this role, please contact the vacancy holder, Adam Clarkson on adam.clarkson@dft.gov.uk or alternatively, Niv Paskaramoorthy on niv.paskaramoorthy@dft.gov.uk.

Reasonable Adjustments

As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Document Accessibility

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

This job advert contains links to the DfT Careers website. Our website provides useful guidance and information that can support you during the application process. If you cannot access the information on our website for any reason, please email DRGComms@dft.gov.uk for assistance.

Further Information

For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.

Pre-employment Checking

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment. 

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

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) (opens in a new window)
• 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 (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.