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Join Police Digital Service as Programme Support Officer

Why Join us?

• Balance is important and we want you to take time off to recharge – we offer 28 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service. Holiday Purchase also available
• Flexible working hours - We trust you to do your job and we appreciate that life doesn’t always fit around a 9 to 5 workday. We operate core hours of 10 to 4, Monday to Friday (37hr week)
• We care about your well-being – we have an EAP that offers not just welfare benefits but also retail discounts
• Plan for the future – we offer an excellent pension scheme and life assurance cover
• Put your mind at rest regarding your health – offering remote GP, mental health and physiotherapy appointments via video consultation
• Family - Enhanced maternity and paternity pay along with a flexible return to work
• Community - one paid day off per year for volunteering

You can find out more here:
Benefits – Police Digital Service (pds.police.uk)

About Police Digital Service

The Centre for Data and Analytics in Policing (CDAP) strives to maximise the operational value of the data held by UK Policing and democratise this data so that everybody can use it to the same standard.

Our vision is to build an enduring capability, laying the foundation for enabling analytics.

• Establishing a common operational requirement of supporting analytical capabilities across policing.
• Cost avoidance through the consolidation of data transformation bids across the policing landscape.
• Understanding the art of the possible.
• Ensuring consent, trust and transparency with the public: lawful and ethical acquisition and use of data is paramount.

Key Responsibilities

• Servicing of Programme and Project Boards and groups as required, scheduling force and communication engagement sessions and tracking of outputs and actions.
• Delivering communications with and to client forces in the Policing family, working closely with the Communications Team and external Policing Engagement Officers for each Force and Region.
• Being the central point for the co-ordination and cascading of all correspondence related to the projects and workstreams.
• Advising forces and those we work with on programme and change process matters and promotion of collaboration updates.
• Sharing testimonies and good practice examples of support efforts in managing PDS Projects & Programmes with other parties.
• Drafting of reports & presentations on behalf of the team and proofreading items when required.
• Keeping/ administering all electronic data and hard copy data ensuring accessibility for programme and Force staff on SharePoint in PMO and Teams directories.
• Providing guidance to Programme and Project Managers of governance processes and templates.
• As a key member of the team you will identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of CDAP, contributing new ideas and providing feedback.
• To provide support in tracking the finances and programme expenditure in line with the key deliverables.
• Must be willing to work at and travel to various locations around the county as required.
• Must have a flexible approach to working hours and be prepared to meet short term demands to work outside normal office hours.
• Must be vetted/willing to be vetted to Management Vetting Level.

What you need to succeed in the role

Knowledge & Skills

• Be able to work alone or as part of a team displaying patience and remaining calm in a pressurised environment where deadlines and priorities change.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to build productive relationships with senior leaders, employee representatives and external stakeholders.
• Skilled in the use of IT software applications.
• Ability to produce high quality, professional reports.
• Demonstrable competence in planning, organising and balancing competing workloads.
• Ability to maintain an enthusiastic, positive attitude to work in a challenging and fast-paced environment.
• Ability to scope, plan and complete tasks individually or as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to maintain professionalism, integrity and confidentiality.

Experience

• Maintaining standards for information metadata tagging and file storage to be accessible to Teams and Forces.
• Experience of working within a data and analytics environment would be desirable.
• Experience of working in a projects or programme environment would be desirable.

Diversity, equity and inclusion

We are committed to equal opportunity for all and will not discriminate on any grounds. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible span of experience. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates and people with disabilities.

Working Arrangements

This is a remote role.