About the job

Job summary

This position is based nationally.

Job description

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Senior Data Analyst

Location: National*

Closing Date: Sunday 28th January

Interviews: w/c 5th February

Grade: SEO

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary: National: £39,868- £43,535 (which may include an allowance of up to £2,507). London: £45,824- £50,039 (which may include an allowance of up to £2,251).

Working pattern: Full time, part time, flexible working, job share

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 83308

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

The Role

We’re recruiting for a Senior Data Analyst here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative End User Compute team.

We are looking for a highly motivated and talented Senior Data Analyst to join our team and oversee one of our data analytical functions. Your role will be responsible for collecting, transforming and presenting data to drive actionable insights that support decision-making across the organisation.  You will work closely with various teams to harness the power of data for enhancing business processes and outcomes.

You will be responsible for developing and continuously improving a sophisticated predictive modelling system to help inform future workforce planning and allow more objective decision-making about resource requirements.

The ideal candidate must have at least 2 years’ experience working as a data analyst in a business intelligence / data analytics field. You must also have a good understanding of current technology trends and be able to liaise with stakeholders to translate business requirements into solutions. Excellent knowledge of business intelligence tools such as Power BI is also required.

You will be Working closely with key stakeholders across the organisation to understand and define their data requirements so that suitable data solutions can then be proposed, agreed and implemented. This will include data solutions that will enable more accurate assessment of costs and outputs of functional areas.

You will be working with organisational senior managers to provide oversight to projects and change activities ensuring data requirements are delivered in accordance with agreed scope and design.

You will develop and continuously improve new and more sophisticated predictive modelling techniques to help inform future workforce planning and allow more objective decisions-making about resource requirements.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

Key Responsibilities:

• Considers alternative and innovative data solutions, transforming data into insights that drive organisation value
• Responsible for the collation and manipulation of data that helps support Justice Digitals strategic objectives
• Provide technical expertise to ensure all report outputs are accurately analysed
• Provide analytical expertise to enhance reporting and identify trends that inform strategic business decisions
• Identify and implement improvements to existing processes and procedures to ensure continued improvement
• Undertake any other reasonable duties as requested from time to time, within the capabilities of the role
• Responsible for the management, cleaning and abstracting data alongside a range of analytical studies on that data
• Responsible for developing and creating business intelligence reports that can be reused
• Responsible for gathering, summarising data and conclusions in the most appropriate format for stakeholders

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• We are committed to nurturing our staff and provide lots of training and development opportunities with learning platforms such as: Linux Academy, O’Reilly, Pluralsight, Microsoft Learning, Civil Service Learning, GDS Academy, etc.
• 10% dedicated time to learning and development with a budget of £1000 a year per person
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 26-30% depending on salary.
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
• Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Carers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and SPIRIT
• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
• 5 days volunteering paid leave.
• Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.

Person Specification

Essential

• Demonstrable experience liaising with stakeholders to translate business requirements into solutions.
• You can show an awareness of opportunities for innovation with new tools and uses of data.
• Excellent knowledge of documenting reporting using business intelligence tools (Power BI and/or SQL preferred but others acceptable).
• Experience of data modelling.
• A good understanding of current technology trends and the availability of products within the marketplace.
• You can continually communicate and improve data management practices in your teams.
• You can help define and support the use of common toolsets and seek to automate data management activities.
• Excellent interpersonal and activity management skills.
• Ability to act under own initiative and constantly strive to deliver excellence in your work.
• Knowledge of data integration tools and languages to integrate and store data.
• Experience in advising teams on best practice, ensuring data for analysis meets data quality standards and is interoperable with other data sets.

Willingness to be assessed against  the requirements for SC clearance.

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

How to Apply

Candidates must submit a CV and Personal Statement (max 750 words),  which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving

A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk

Person specification

Please refer to attached job description.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £39,868, Ministry of Justice contributes £10,804 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

Candidates must submit a CV and Personal Statement (max 750 words),  which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving

A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). 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

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

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.