Benefits:

Salary: £44,711 - £49,764 per annum, Grade 6

Hours: Full Time - 37 hours per week

Location – Service Headquarters, Calcot, Reading

Excellent annual leave allowance of 30 days, flexible working, onsite gym, parking facilities and a Local Government Pension Scheme are available

Other information about our benefits can be found here

This is a great opportunity to use your professional and specialist expertise to help drive data and evidence-based policy and practice in Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service (RBFRS). You will be responsible for a number of functions including performance management and data quality and analysis, helping us to understand how to improve our performance and processes.

RBFRS has a reputation for excellence and investment in our employees, offering a diverse and inclusive environment and flexible working hours.

About you: 

We are seeking a candidate with experience in managing a small team to deliver in a fast-paced environment. You will have a passion for using data to improve public service delivery and understand the challenges this can bring.

The key focus of this role is:

Act as the data manager for RBFRS ensuring processes produce and handle data correctly and result in reliable outputs with quality assurance procedures and practice

Lead the organisation in the development of a set of useful, robust corporate and service measures, in line with the Performance Management Framework, working closely with the Senior Leadership Team. Ensure these are consistent with, or complementary to nationally agreed data collections and measures.

Act as the lead for reporting on corporate performance ensuring robust and transparent information is provided to the Strategic Performance Board, Senior Leadership Team and Audit and Governance Committee.

Manage the provision of advice and analysis to support timely, accurate and easy to understand performance information and reports to enable scrutiny of performance at an organisational, departmental, hub, team and project level.

Manage the completion of relevant data returns to outside bodies and ensure that such returns are completed in accordance with guidance notes, timetables and legal requirements.

Contribute towards to the development and delivery of quality assurance activities ensuring a robust and comprehensive approach with outcomes feeding into a programme of continuous improvement.

Key role requirements (knowledge, skills and experience):

The ability to analyse, interpret and present data effectively to a variety of audiences in various formats.

Ability to interpret and analyse complex information.

Sound influencing, interpersonal and negotiating skills.

Proven experience within a data management role.

Experience of managing and leading a team.

Application and selection process

The successful candidate will demonstrate and promote behaviours in line with the Job Profile/Person Specification and our Behaviour Competency Framework as attached.

The Behavioural Competency Framework allows us to easily identify the behaviours that drive successful performance and enables us to deliver an effective service. The behaviours detailed within the job profile will be assessed throughout the selection process.

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Please see the link to the Job Profile/Person Specification.

Appointment is conditional upon undertaking a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Rechecks will be required in line with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy.

For further details about the role or to simply discuss any adaptations or adjustments we can make to assist you in your application or with our recruitment process please contact Becca Chapman, Data, Performance and Risk Manager at (url removed) to arrange an informal discussion.

Please note we do not accept applications via Agencies or CVs without an accompanying application form.

Closing date for applications is 23:59 hours on Sunday 24 November

It is anticipated that the assessment/interview process will run week commencing 9 December .

Anticipated start date: January 2025

Please note that is your personal responsibility to check whether by applying / accepting this position it would result in any Annual Allowance implications. A breach in the Annual Allowance threshold could result in a Tax charge.

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Our Commitments:

Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service values your individuality, your diversity and your dignity. All are welcome here. Inclusion, diversity and equality are principles which guide our decisions and will be visible throughout the Service, and we will continually work to improve in these areas.

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture of dignity and trust where everyone feels safe and comfortable to bring their whole self to work.

Simply: The communities we serve are varied and diverse, we should be too.

Applications are welcome for job-share or part time arrangements please enquire on application.

All applications are considered on merit alone. We are a Disability Confident Leader – if you meet the essential criteria of the role, you will be guaranteed an interview if you choose to opt into the Offer of an Interview Scheme (formerly known as the Guaranteed Interview Scheme).

To find out more: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and all employees must share this commitment.

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