Performance & Insights Senior Analyst at NZ Police, Wellington - Hutt Valley;Wellington - Kapiti;Wellington - Masterton;Wellington - Porirua;Wellington - Tawa;Wellington - Upper Hutt;Wellington

New Zealand Police is working with the community to make New Zealanders be safe and feel safe. With over 13,000 staff, we provide policing services 24 hours a day, every day. We operate by land, sea and air, manage over 860,000 emergency calls a year and are always actively preventing crime and crashes.

We’re working towards specific goals and targets that highlight our intent to work collaboratively with iwi and communities, other government sectors and business partners to deliver ‘Our Business’ and achieve long-term change.

• Location: Wellington Central
• Starting from $94,854
• Fixed-term: 12 months
• Reporting to: Performance and Insights Lead

Mō te tūnga | About the role

The purpose of Te Tari Pūreke, Firearms Safety Authority business unit is to enable New Zealand to be a world leader in arms safety through an effective regulatory and administrative approach to the Arms Act and Arms Regulations. Established to lead, operate, and develop investment in modernisation of the firearms system, which will result in a more efficient and effective risk-based licensing system, and shall improve public confidence in the firearms licensing system. The modernisation of the Arms Regulatory System will take every opportunity to prevent harm through transparent, high quality, consistent, legislatively correct, and effective regulatory activities. This will also cover world leading administration, education, and promotion of compliance within the provisions of the Arms Act and Arms Regulations. 

To support the delivery of these outcomes you will provide high quality advice, analysis, and recommendations to enable a greater understanding of the programme of work for the operations team. By analysing data, looking for trends, exceptions, and unexpected results and to share these insights to varying levels within the organisation in understandable (non-data heavy) ways will support the Performance and Insights Lead to develop and implement performance and quality assurance measures and frameworks for the operations team enabling them to meet desired regulatory outcomes. You will be able to think critically about the data, providing contextual insight and strategic thinking that both operational team and leadership teams can understand and implement.

You will contribute to providing high-quality analysis, in-depth insights, recommendations and advice on the ongoing development, support, maintenance, and improvements in the delivery of firearms regulatory services. You will work to establish and maintain strong and sustainable relationship within the team and with key stakeholders.

Takohanga Matua | Key Accountabilities:

• Proactively identify factors influencing operational performance and information that will assist leadership teams and to enables better decision making and operational performance outcomes.
• Provide data and advice for the programme of work and the implementation of changes to process practice and quality standards in firearms licensing.
• Maintain up to date and easily accessible records of performance data, reports and processes ensuring it is applied consistently to ensure conclusions drawn are accurate.
• Proactively investigate operational performance issues or impacts and make recommendations for possible management strategies or improvement opportunities.
• Support the Performance and Insights Lead with the development and implementation of a performance and quality assurance framework.
• Contribute to the development of performance measures for the operational teams.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Applicants need to be New Zealand Permanent Residents
• Relevant tertiary qualification containing significant component of statistics or other mathematical disciplines, or equivalent experience preferred.
• A strong working knowledge of Excel, NIA, Business Objects and SAS would be advantageous  

 Pre-Employment Checks:

• Standard Police vetting check
• Drug and Alcohol testing  

Skills:

• Experience in applying business performance reporting methods and tools in an operational environment.
• Experience in analysing data to identify trends, impacts and linkages, developing and delivering recommendations for improvement.
• Experience presenting both verbally and in writing performance and quality assurance reporting to senior leaders in a succinct way for decision making.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate technical analysis in a non-technical manner readily understood by operational areas.

• Highly effective communication skills with the ability to be flexible, adaptable, and pragmatic with solutioning. 

You will be based at Rugby House, Wellington, with working from home options available for the preferred candidate. Positions also have flexible employment options.   

Skills testing may be used at interview to assess data analysis and critical thinking abilities.

We will ask you questions based on “How we will deliver Our Business – Core Competencies” and the appropriate role level.

For more information on Our Core Competencies, please copy and paste this URL:  https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/core-competencies-how-we-will-deliver-our-business.pdf

To view the position description for this role please copy and paste this link into a new browser: https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/pd/03-2023/performance_and_insights_senior_analyst_te_tari_pureke_2.pdf

Pāwhiria i konei kia tonoa te tūnga | If this position sounds like you, click apply now.

You will be required to submit an application form and a Chronological list of previous roles that cover the role title and the date/duration (this replaces a CV). 

Please use the link below to see an example of the correct CV format: https://tenone.police.govt.nz/media/15377  

Mēnā he pātai āu mō te tūnga, ka pai tō whakapā atu ki te tīma National Recruitment mā te asc.nationalrecruitment@police.govt.nz | If you have any questions about this vacancy, the National Recruitment team can be contacted on asc.nationalrecruitment@police.govt.nz.

Ka katia ngā tono ā te 5pm , 23 March 2023   | Applications close 5pm , 23 March 2023