Salary: National: £25,750 - £27,650 London: £29,750 - £31,950 
An additional allowance may be available for candidates with exceptional skills & experience (currently £2,500)

About us

Here at the HMICFRS, we assess the effectiveness and efficiency of police forces and fire & rescue services. Independent of government and the services we inspect, we ask the questions the public wish to have answered. And produce major reports which shine a light on a wide range of issues. Join us, and you’ll have the opportunity to make a real difference to the quality of local services and the lives of the general public. We’re a unique organisation with staff seconded or loaned from across the civil service, police forces and fire and rescue services. We’re also a rewarding place to work, and take great pride in the quality of work we achieve and the opportunities we create for our staff.

You can find out more about HMICFRS on our website via the 'Apply' button and see some of our recent reports.

About the role

Join us in this important role – which sits within the Inspection Insight portfolio and has a busy remit to develop and improve our inspection methodologies – and your primary responsibility will be to produce accurate and insightful information based on the sound analysis of data. This will help to guide our inspectors in their local investigations, and inform national inspection reports and monitoring of the performance of the country’s police forces and fire and rescue services.  

When completing analysis, you’ll need to cultivate a solid understanding of the process of primary data collections, management and quality control, developing inferences, testing hypotheses and making recommendations. When the analysis is complete, you’ll articulate complex information and its strengths and weaknesses, and the uncertainties associated with the results and findings to your line manager and inspection leads. It’s extremely important that all your findings are then communicated accurately and effectively to a wide audience, with a particular focus on the general public.

HMICFRS’ analytical community is affiliated with the Home Office and therefore staff will be able to seek development opportunities across both the Home Office and HMICFRS. 
You will have the opportunity to work across a variety of interesting areas, such as: 

• Providing analytical support for elements of HMICFRS’s national PEEL inspections 
• Developing inspection tools for HMICFRS’s joint thematic inspection
• Use of Microsoft PowerBi to create interactive dashboards to visualise your analysis. 

Considerable freedom is given to staff to show innovation and take initiative wherever possible. 

About you

With an honours degree in a subject containing formal statistical training, for example Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Sciences, Business Studies, Psychology or Geography, you’ll have worked in a statistical/data science or research team, and be committed to continuous professional development. Organised and possessing good planning skills, you’ll be ready to take the initiative and be proactive in developing and progressing your work.

Capable of communicating clearly and concisely through written reports and spoken presentations, and able to work in a high pressure, fast-paced environment, you’ll be a confident user of the MS Office suite of applications, with a particular emphasis on Excel. Experience in the use of statistical analysis tools, such as SPSS, would be a bonus, as would working knowledge of Power Bi. It would be an advantage if you’ve worked with police or fire service data in multi-disciplinary teams, and membership of GSG would also be desirable, but we can support you to become badged. 

Your rewards

In addition to an excellent salary and Civil Service pension, we’re committed to investing in our people and providing them with great opportunities to maximise their skills and achieve their potential. We offer a wide range of work-based training and development, including access to coaching and mentoring, and five days volunteering per year.

The diversity of our people is a real asset to HMICFRS. We’re committed to creating a welcoming, inclusive workplace where everyone is able to bring their whole selves to work and perform at their best. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and people with disabilities, as they are currently under-represented at this grade level. Appointments will be made on merit on the basis of fair and open competition. If you want to find out more about our work, please visit our website via the 'Apply' button.