Workforce Planning Analyst (x3 posts)

TN United Kingdom; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading police force as a Workforce Planning Analyst, where you will play a crucial role in ensuring the right skills are in place to meet current and future demands. Your expertise in workforce planning and data analysis will help shape the future of our team, enhancing performance and capacity planning through compelling data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of workforce planning principles.
• Experience in data and statistical analysis.
• Ability to create forecasting and modelling tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate analysis of workforce through people intelligence.
• Design and deliver workforce planning solutions.
• Engage with stakeholders to support resourcing strategies.

Skills

Workforce planning

Data analysis

Statistical analysis

Data visualisation

Job description

Role:

Salary: Band 9, £41,133 to £47,712

Location: Agile, Forth Banks Police Station and homeworking

Hours/Contract: 37 hours per week, permanent

Working for #TeamNP

Our purpose at Team NP is simple: to keep people safe and to fight crime. But it takes more than officers alone to do the job – and that’s where our 2,000-strong team of police staff and 200 volunteers come in.

As one of the largest police forces in England, we have a huge variety of departments and specialisms offering you endless opportunities. From mentoring and coaching schemes and online soft skills courses to leadership development programmes; we’ll give you the support, training, and time to carve out the career you always wanted.

As one of the top 50 UK inclusive employers and a disability confident employer, we promote a culture of respect in the workplace so everyone can feel seen, heard, and valued.

Whether you’re a member of staff or a volunteer, you can also expect first-rate support to manage your health and wellbeing. With year-round events, a 24/7 welfare support hotline, and a leading approach to neurodiversity, our initiatives enable you to be at your best.

Above all else, here at Team NP, we can offer you a career that is so much more than just a job; it’s a chance to be part of something that really matters.

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The Role

Here 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? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Workforce Planning and Insights Department as a Workforce Planning Analyst.

Working as a Workforce Planning Analyst, you will be key in ensuring we have a robust workforce with the right skills to meet current and future demand.

What you’ll do

This isn’t your typical analyst role. Northumbria Police have a wide range of roles and skills that are unique to policing. In your role as Workforce Planning Analyst, you will work as part of a team to provide accurate and timely analysis of our workforce through people intelligence and metrics. Using your strong understanding of workforce planning principles and methodologies, you will create detailed capacity and capability forecasts, both short/medium and long term.

In your role, you will use your workforce planning, data, and statistical analysis skills to create forecasting and modelling tools. These will allow you to undertake effective interpretation, skills-based demand analysis, scenario planning, and predictive forecasting to ensure current and future capacity and capability requirements meet our organisational needs.

People intelligence and metrics are key to our team's success. They enable us to develop compelling, data-driven approaches, narratives, and recommendations that improve the visibility of our workforce, enhance performance, and effectively plan to meet the capacity and capability needs of the force. You will use your data insights to create products that showcase your presentation and data visualisation skills across various media.

Key Responsibilities

• You will inform, based on appropriate evidence, attraction, recruitment, training, and development initiatives through producing and maintaining detailed and dynamic people intelligence and analyses.
• Design and deliver effective workforce planning, forecasting, and management solutions that support medium-term and long-term organisational needs.
• Develop comprehensive succession plans and skills-based analyses to ensure resources are identified and developed in a timely manner, helping to understand pipelines across the force area.
• Attend and participate in workforce meetings, using data visualisation and presentation skills to support corporate decision-making to meet operational and strategic resourcing objectives.
• Engage with key stakeholders across various departments to gather and share information to meet business objectives and support the delivery of force resourcing strategies and plans.
• Ensure system modifications and changes are up to date, fit for purpose, and support the maintenance and development of core systems underpinning the workforce planning function.