Evaluation & Quality Assurance Adviser

Job Description

Salary: Band 9 - £36,083 - £41,853 per annumThe role is agile based between home and Middle Engine LaneHours/Contract: Fixed term / Secondment - Maternity cover until November 2024 Reduced hours - 34hpwThe roleHere at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference Thiscould be the perfect time for you to join us in our Corporate Development Team as a Evaluation and Quality Assurance Adviser.This is an exciting role where you will respond to requests for research and evaluation on a wide range of subjects to improve policing practice. You will work with business leads to develop research ideas, design and undertake fieldwork, conduct quantitativeand qualitative analysis and present findings both verbally and in writing to a range of audiences.What you’ll doYou will support evidence based policing, creating research evidence to inform decision-making and improve policing practice.You will lead on quality assurance work, assessing standards of activity and making recommendations for improvement and change.What you’ll bringWe are looking for an experienced individual who will lead on improvement by design and delivery through robust research and evaluation. This will drive force performance and achieve value for money.You will have a degree or the equivalent in a related subject with at least 2 years of relevant work experience and demonstrate the aptitude to lead on planning, managing and coordinating internal inspections and evaluations. You will have the ability toand experience of assimilating complex information to make valuable recommendations and judgements.You will need these important qualities:

• Excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills
• Good people skills for developing relationships with stakeholders at all levels
• A critical thinker who enjoys problem solving
• The ability to prioritise own workload to achieve targets
• Adaptable and able to work under pressure to conflicting priorities in a demanding fast paced environment
• Self-motivated individual and have the ability to work independently.

We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriageand civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.What we offer

• 26 days’ leave (increasing to 30 days for 5 years+ service) plus 8 bank holidays
• Enhanced maternity, shared parental and adoption leave
• Flexi time - allowing you to fit your working hours around your individual needs
• Flexible working (we are happy to discuss options such as compressed hours)
• Agile working - option to work from home, your team zone, and spaces across the force
• Fantastic market-leading public sector pension scheme with up to 16% employer contribution
• Corporate travel schemes - local rail, bus services and metro discounts
• Access to private healthcare and eye test vouchers
• Discounts on shopping and eating out thanks to the Blue Light Card and Blue Light Tickets
• We’ve invested in extensive paid sick leave, trained mental health first aiders on-site, an employee advice service for the times you need that additional support.
• Access to gyms in some stations
• Sports & Social Club - join our thriving sports scene at Team NP and enjoy further exclusive discounts on days out and travel
• Cycle to work scheme

Just so you knowOur application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of an Evaluation and Quality Assurance Adviser with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria,the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by an assessment and interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role asstated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter). If your application is successful, we’ll ask you tocomplete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.Terms of appointmentThis is a fixed term role subject to a six-month probationary period.If you are successful in your application, you will have a 6month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.Previous applicants need not apply

Keyskills :
Collaboration Interpersonal Skills Motivation Organisational Skills Problem Solving Relationship Management Critical Thinking Fast Paced Environment Multiple Priorities Prioritisation