AddressLocation of Role:North Kent
Advert Closing Date: 26/02/2024
Starting Salary: £25,188.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)
Part/Full Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Mon-Fri
Weekend/Evening Working: No
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual to undertake the role of Data Quality Officer, Athena. This is a challenging role that requires the successful candidate to work as part of a small team to interrogate data from within Athena (Record Management System) for accuracy and quality assurance.
You will be required to utilise multiple data sources and have a keen eye for detail to determine the legitimacy of information. You will rectify errors, to ensure police officers and staff act upon accurate information during the execution of their duties.
You will be required to identify and highlight areas of non-compliance with data standards, providing feedback to staff of all ranks. Therefore, good communication and interpersonal skills are required.
You will work closely in support of Information Security to ensure that data protection breaches and data integrity failures are reported and managed. Due to this, an understanding of data protection and MoPI is desirable.
Successful applicants will be able to demonstrate using logical and analytical approaches to problem solving. You should demonstrate a sense of ownership and responsibility and have strong written communication skills. You should be able to evidence examples where you have critically analysed data across numerous databases or sources of information. While an understanding of Athena and other Policing systems is desirable, training will be given.
For more information about this role, please contact the Athena System Manager, Dani Martin; Danielle.Martin@kent.police.uk
Kent Police offer smarter working which designates that certain roles can have flexibility in terms of place of work, including the potential to work from home for those who would like to.
The specific requirements of this role will be discussed during the interview stages with candidates. In the event that home working is agreed for the successful candidate, there will be a requirement to regularly attend a contractual workplace, as agreed with the line manager.
Kent Police offer incremental increases within this salary band, therefore the salary for this position will rise to a maximum of £29,073.00.
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Note for potential candidates - It is currently proposed that the Kent Police, Headquarters site is re-locating back to Sutton Road Maidstone. As part of the relocation members of staff currently working at the current Headquarters in Northfleet may be redeployed to other workplaces and/or required to work in a more agile way. All new staff appointed to roles currently based at Kent Police, Northfleet after 12th June 2023 and before the move of the site will be accepting the contract knowing that their workplace could change. They will not be eligible to claim for any additional ‘home to work’ mileage costs or additional public transport costs incurred from the requirement to travel their new contractual workplace. By applying for this role, you are demonstrating that you accept these conditions. The only exceptions to this will be for existing internal staff where the new role is a promotional opportunity or a move internally with the Kent Police, Northfleet site (i.e. from one role based at that site to another role based at that site).
Your application is shortlisted on the content provided within the 'reason for application' section, which is limited to 9000 characters. Within your answer please refer to the criteria stated in this job advert and include any experience, skills and abilities you feel you have that will make you suitable for the role. Please ensure you provide as much detail as possible as insufficient information may mean that you do not meet the shortlisting criteria.
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Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.
Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process, or for further information regarding this position, please email us at recruitment.business.services@ecis.police.uk stating ‘Application Support and Adjustments’ in the title of your email. Alternatively, you can call us on 01245 452833.
Where appropriate we will make adjustments to the selection process, working arrangements and/or the working environment provided it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.
This post is open to British Citizens, members of the EC or other states in the European Economic Area. If you are a Commonwealth citizen or a foreign national, you must be a resident in the UK free of restrictions and with indefinite leave to remain in the UK. All applicants must have lived in the UK continuously for the past three years.
Essex Police and Kent Police are an equal opportunities employer. Communications may be recorded for monitoring purposes.
