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5870 - Data Warden Support Officer
| Posting date: | 12 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £28,312 to £34,361 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The national salary range is £28,312 - £30,011, London salary range is £32,416 - £34,361. Your salary will be dependent on your base location |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 May 2025 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5870 |
Summary
Data Warden Support Officers in the Prison Data Assurance team
Overview
Do you have the passion, values, and ability to help us solve the biggest problems of the justice system?
We have an exciting opportunity for an Executive Officer Data Warden Support, to join our amazing team in the Prison Data Assurance team, Analysis Directorate, Ministry of Justice. Any merit list from this campaign may be used to fill other similar vacancies
The post is open on level transfer to existing Civil Servants at EO (or equivalent) and to other eligible Civil Service staff on promotion. Additionally, individuals may apply as external candidates.
We welcome applications from candidates based across the UK. Candidates will have the option of being based in the Leeds or London HQ offices (with flexible working arrangements available) or your nearest Justice Collaboration Centre or Justice Satellite Office: see this map for more details.
Alternative locations may be available and will be discussed and agreed on the completion of background checks.
Interviews are likely to take place in July and will be held via MS Teams. We will keep a merit list for a year for those who successfully pass the interview board but who are not offered a post.
About the Team
• The Prison Data Assurance team supports MoJ and HMPPS (and wider Civil Service) to understand, use and improve the quality of custodial data reported on the HMPPS Performance Hub. The HMPPS Performance Hub is a web‐based reporting service that provides users with the tools to collect, validate, collate and report data. We assist customers, stakeholders, and colleagues in understanding, reporting, interpreting, and utilising Prison data.
• We provide guidance, overviews, and support packages, represent the frontline at meetings, produce guidance, and develop metrics and management information.
• We are a highly engaged team, investing in ourselves through learning and development, promoting health and wellbeing, and putting the individual first. Everything we do is underpinned by an open and inclusive culture, within which staff feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work.
• We encourage continuous improvement, innovation, and constructive challenge. We are looking for an enthusiastic person who is willing to learn and develop in this exciting role, you will receive all the help, advice, and training necessary to succeed.
About the Analysis Directorate
• We are passionate about improving justice outcomes through innovative research, data and analysis. In the Analysis Directorate, we provide high quality data and analysis helping to ensure strategic, policy, finance, corporate and operational decisions are based on robust evidence.
• We create a culture in which people are empowered with the data and information to make excellent decisions; using cutting edge tools, techniques and collaboration; putting evidence at the heart of the justice system.
• We are a multi-disciplinary team of around 650 staff that sits at the heart of the Ministry of Justice providing analytical support across a diverse and exciting agenda. We work in a dynamic and fast-paced context and our skills are in heavy demand across the Ministry of Justice. Our collaborations beyond government are seen as ground-breaking. The Analysis community is made up of analysts and specialists including: Social Researchers, Economists, Operational Researchers, Statisticians, Data Engineers, Data Scientists and other data specialists (such as data strategists, data dissemination, generalists and assurance experts).
Why work in the Analysis Directorate?
In the Analysis Directorate, we want all our people to feel valued for who they are and for the work they do. We provide a warm, inclusive place to work and offer a wide range of flexibilities and benefits as part of our people offer to reward our staff.
What we offer
• Flexible working arrangements and a focus on equality of opportunity – including welcoming part-time and/or job-share arrangements, compressed hours, working from home or your nearest Justice Collaboration Centres or Justice Satellite Office.
• Career development – regular development and promotion opportunities across a wide range of roles, career development support, with a generous individual learning and development budget.
• Range of new areas of work and new tools and techniques – we pride ourselves on our excellent deployment of well-established analytical methods, but also our progress to date. Progress such as our ambitious and innovative transformation programme to leverage departmental data and drive evidence-based decision-making using cutting-edge tools and techniques (for example: experimentation, personalisation, artificial intelligence).
• Analysis is at the centre of the Department’s decision making – our transformation programme is focused on maximising our impact on departmental outcomes.
• The Ministry of Justice’s Senior Team and our Ministerial Team want all decisions to be evidence driven – your analysis will be key in influencing decisions and real-world impact.
• Vibrant community – part of a multidisciplinary team that has a supportive culture and is looking to further develop the community with the help of everyone.
• See the frontline and what your work is influencing – regular opportunities to visit our front-line service providers, including courts, prisons, and probation to better understand the areas your analysis is affecting.
Overview
Do you have the passion, values, and ability to help us solve the biggest problems of the justice system?
We have an exciting opportunity for an Executive Officer Data Warden Support, to join our amazing team in the Prison Data Assurance team, Analysis Directorate, Ministry of Justice. Any merit list from this campaign may be used to fill other similar vacancies
The post is open on level transfer to existing Civil Servants at EO (or equivalent) and to other eligible Civil Service staff on promotion. Additionally, individuals may apply as external candidates.
We welcome applications from candidates based across the UK. Candidates will have the option of being based in the Leeds or London HQ offices (with flexible working arrangements available) or your nearest Justice Collaboration Centre or Justice Satellite Office: see this map for more details.
Alternative locations may be available and will be discussed and agreed on the completion of background checks.
Interviews are likely to take place in July and will be held via MS Teams. We will keep a merit list for a year for those who successfully pass the interview board but who are not offered a post.
About the Team
• The Prison Data Assurance team supports MoJ and HMPPS (and wider Civil Service) to understand, use and improve the quality of custodial data reported on the HMPPS Performance Hub. The HMPPS Performance Hub is a web‐based reporting service that provides users with the tools to collect, validate, collate and report data. We assist customers, stakeholders, and colleagues in understanding, reporting, interpreting, and utilising Prison data.
• We provide guidance, overviews, and support packages, represent the frontline at meetings, produce guidance, and develop metrics and management information.
• We are a highly engaged team, investing in ourselves through learning and development, promoting health and wellbeing, and putting the individual first. Everything we do is underpinned by an open and inclusive culture, within which staff feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work.
• We encourage continuous improvement, innovation, and constructive challenge. We are looking for an enthusiastic person who is willing to learn and develop in this exciting role, you will receive all the help, advice, and training necessary to succeed.
About the Analysis Directorate
• We are passionate about improving justice outcomes through innovative research, data and analysis. In the Analysis Directorate, we provide high quality data and analysis helping to ensure strategic, policy, finance, corporate and operational decisions are based on robust evidence.
• We create a culture in which people are empowered with the data and information to make excellent decisions; using cutting edge tools, techniques and collaboration; putting evidence at the heart of the justice system.
• We are a multi-disciplinary team of around 650 staff that sits at the heart of the Ministry of Justice providing analytical support across a diverse and exciting agenda. We work in a dynamic and fast-paced context and our skills are in heavy demand across the Ministry of Justice. Our collaborations beyond government are seen as ground-breaking. The Analysis community is made up of analysts and specialists including: Social Researchers, Economists, Operational Researchers, Statisticians, Data Engineers, Data Scientists and other data specialists (such as data strategists, data dissemination, generalists and assurance experts).
Why work in the Analysis Directorate?
In the Analysis Directorate, we want all our people to feel valued for who they are and for the work they do. We provide a warm, inclusive place to work and offer a wide range of flexibilities and benefits as part of our people offer to reward our staff.
What we offer
• Flexible working arrangements and a focus on equality of opportunity – including welcoming part-time and/or job-share arrangements, compressed hours, working from home or your nearest Justice Collaboration Centres or Justice Satellite Office.
• Career development – regular development and promotion opportunities across a wide range of roles, career development support, with a generous individual learning and development budget.
• Range of new areas of work and new tools and techniques – we pride ourselves on our excellent deployment of well-established analytical methods, but also our progress to date. Progress such as our ambitious and innovative transformation programme to leverage departmental data and drive evidence-based decision-making using cutting-edge tools and techniques (for example: experimentation, personalisation, artificial intelligence).
• Analysis is at the centre of the Department’s decision making – our transformation programme is focused on maximising our impact on departmental outcomes.
• The Ministry of Justice’s Senior Team and our Ministerial Team want all decisions to be evidence driven – your analysis will be key in influencing decisions and real-world impact.
• Vibrant community – part of a multidisciplinary team that has a supportive culture and is looking to further develop the community with the help of everyone.
• See the frontline and what your work is influencing – regular opportunities to visit our front-line service providers, including courts, prisons, and probation to better understand the areas your analysis is affecting.