Data Analyst - HC622318

Data Analyst - HC622318

Job details: Data Analyst - HC622318

Location: Mottisfont Court, Winchester

Hours: Full Time - 37 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: Tuesday 25th November 2025 at 23.59 hours

Previous applicants who have applied for this role within the last 3 months need not apply

About Policing and the Role

The challenges facing Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and policing are constant and ever evolving. Hampshire & IOW Constabulary's purpose is to strengthen the trust of all our communities through our delivery of fair, thorough, transparent and ethical policing and to enable us to make Hampshire & IOW safe for everyone. You can help contribute to this as a Data Analyst.

Are you looking for a new and exciting opportunity?

The Corporate Analysis team is a dynamic unit which provides vital reporting and data analysis capability to all levels within the Constabulary; engaging with stakeholders and working to deadlines to deliver for customers. If you like working with data, have a passion for data quality and data visualisation plus a level of professional curiosity then this may be the job for you.

About the role

What do we mean by data? This will be varied and you will be involved in a range of analytical data work across all themes of Policing from crime affecting Hampshire's residents, understanding how we Police our communities ethically and effectively as well as analysing demand on our resources. You will be crucial in completing Home Office returns, understanding our crime and outcomes, mapping where crime is occurring and understanding our workforce. It is about collecting, exploiting, assessing and interpreting a range of overt and covert information sources, delivering valuable, influential data analysis enabling the Force to understand their performance.

As a Data Analyst, you will enable access to data through data extraction and data visualisation by identifying and understanding what data customers require, then, commission and build reports within Microsoft PowerBI/Business Objects and provide these to customers to meet the wide range of challenges that the Constabulary faces.

Knowledge of PowerBI or Business Objects will be beneficial however training will be provided to successful candidates.

Flexibility and creativity in your thinking are key, as is a keen interest in data analysis, taking ownership to develop and learn a variety of topics and being innovative in how you solve problems. You will be a vital part of a multi-faceted team, you will need strong collaboration and negotiation skills, plus a talent for communicating clearly and concisely.

Importantly, you will be someone who can build the bigger picture from the tiny nuggets of information that you unearth.

Key responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Liaise with data users to gather and document requirements for data reporting.
• Develop and maintain reports, dashboards and other data products to meet user needs including ITD Analysts.
• Conduct quality assurance of their own and team member's work, providing leadership in the team and support and assurance to the work of Data Coordinators.
• Enable the completion and validation of statutory and non-statutory data requirements.
• Provide expertise in Data Management, including through maintaining data flows, mappings and dictionaries.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key colleagues in Public Access and Information Management teams to ensure data management meets required standards.

Essential Qualifications

• Educated to QCF Level 6 OR work experience deemed to have brought the postholder to a comparable level.
• Ability to understand and present complex data for a range of internal and external audiences.
• Ability to use own initiative and work under pressure, possessing good time management skills.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, with proven experience of forming and maintaining internal and external relationships.
• Good literacy, numeracy and computer skills.
• Previous experience of, or trained in the use of, data extraction or visualisation tools.
• Experience using Management Information tools and working in a statistical/analytical environment preferably working with both structured and unstructured data.
• Knowledge and experience of developing user/customer requirements into technical specifications with a working knowledge of relevant data architectures.

Contact details for an informal discussion

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary is an inclusive employer and strives to have a workforce representative of the communities we police and serve. We recognise that we are not fully representative and are working to address this imbalance through a variety of initiatives.

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary is an equal opportunities employer that positively promotes flexible working, enabling officers and staff to achieve a healthy work-life balance whilst meeting operational requirements of the constabulary. We actively encourage applications to be made on a full time, part time or flexible working basis.

The Equality Act 2010 allows us to promote equality within Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary by adopting Positive Action to support people from under-represented groups. Our aim is to recruit talented people with a diverse range of skills and experience and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our Positive Action team are available to provide support through the application and assessment process by contacting:

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