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Prisons Data Quality Analyst

Hybrid in London·Added today (last checked 7 Nov)

Ministry of Justice (MoJ)

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Our summary

Salary
£49,325 - £53,081 a year

About £3,250 - £3,450 a month after tax.

Work mode
Hybrid, London
Closing date
Apply by Friday 20 November
Holiday
25 days holiday
Pension
28.97% employer pension

Skills

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • Technical and analytical skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including proficiency with SQL and experience querying, manipulating and investigating data held on relational databases. Ability to analyse information from different sources, identify patterns, issues and risks, and use evidence to support clear conclusions, options and recommendations.
  • Data improvement and data quality: Good understanding of how data is collected, managed and used, and the importance of high-quality, accessible and usable data. Experience investigating data availability, quality and suitability for different purposes, identifying gaps and opportunities to improve data processes, standards, reporting or data products.
  • Delivery and organisation: Ability to manage competing priorities, coordinate work with others, track progress and support delivery of transformation activity in a complex or changing environment.
  • Collaborative working: Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, bringing together analytical, technical and operational perspectives to support practical improvements in a prison, justice or similarly complex delivery context.

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

£42,914 - £53,081

The national salary range is £42,914 - £46,182, London salary range is £49,325 - £53,081. Your salary will be dependent on your base location

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

National: £42,914 - £46,182

London: £49,325 - £53,081

You'll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

  • A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
  • 25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King's birthday.
  • Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work-life balance.
  • Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
  • A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
  • Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!

You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.

Base salary for this role is from £42,914 - £46,182 (National) £49,325 - £53,081 (London)

  • New entrants to the Civil Service joining the MoJ are expected to start at the minimum of the pay band.
  • Existing Civil Servants moving on a level transfer will retain their current base salary or move to the minimum of the pay band for the role, whichever is higher.
  • Existing Civil Servants who are promoted will either move to the bottom of the new grade's pay band or receive a 10% uplift, whichever provides the greater increase.

Alongside your salary of £42,914, Ministry of Justice contributes £12,432 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

  • Access to learning and development
  • A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
  • A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
  • A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
  • Annual Leave
  • Public Holidays
  • Season Ticket Advance

Visa & relocation

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

The role

We're recruiting for two Prisons Data Quality Analysts at the Ministry of Justice, to join our warm and collaborative Prisons Data Transformation team. This SEO role will support the Data Transformation Lead by using analytical thinking, evidence and insight to improve the quality, accessibility and useability of data across prisons. You will help turn user needs and operational challenges into clear data requirements, support analysis-led improvement activity, and work with digital, analytical, policy and operational colleagues to deliver practical changes that strengthen evidence-based decision making.

This role most closely aligns to Data Governance Manager from the Government Digital and Data Framework, with a strong emphasis on analytical skills, problem solving, stakeholder engagement and delivery.

What you'll do

  • Support data requirements and analysis: Work with business, digital, analytical, policy and HMPPS operational colleagues to identify data needs, explore current data issues, and translate findings into clear requirements, actions and recommendations.
  • Use evidence to support decision making: Gather, interpret and present information from a range of sources to help the team understand problems, assess options and prioritise improvements to data quality, accessibility and useability.
  • Stakeholder engagement: Build effective relationships with internal stakeholders, including analytical, digital, operational and policy teams, explaining data issues clearly and helping colleagues understand the value of good data practice.
  • Collaboration with technical teams: Work alongside colleagues in data science, data engineering, analysis and digital delivery to support the development of data products, prototypes and improvement activity.
  • Delivery and coordination: Support the planning and delivery of data improvement projects by tracking actions, coordinating input from others, managing competing priorities and helping ensure work is delivered to agreed timescales.
  • Improve HMPPS data: Contribute to initiatives that improve the quality, consistency and use of prison data, supporting wider engagement with operational users and helping identify opportunities to reduce manual processes and improve confidence in data.
  • Support OMU transformation: Help ensure OMU transformation activity is informed by evidence, user needs and operational insight, supporting the development of data practices and solutions that deliver meaningful outcomes for stakeholders.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

How you'll work

Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time

Working pattern: full-time, part-time, flexible working

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

Application Deadline

Apply before 11:55 pm on Friday 20th November 2026

Reference number

489598

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Architecture and Data

Number of jobs available

2

Location

East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber

Job summary

Please refer to Job Description

Prisons Data Quality Analyst

Location: National*

Closing Date: 20th November 2026

Interviews: Week commencing 30th November 2026

Grade: SEO

Salary

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of roles: 2

Vacancy number: 23797

London location note

Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms and Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk

Person specification

Please refer to attached Job Description

Candidate Information Page

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Apply and further information

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Job contact

  • Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
  • Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk
  • Telephone : 0345 241 5359

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles. If you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints/

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Hiring process

In Justice Digital, Data and Science, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We shall assess a combination of your Experience, Technical skills and Behaviours during the assessment process.

Stage 1 - Application and sift:

To apply for this position, you must submit the following as part of your application.

  • an anonymised CV, maximum 2 pages at font size 12, including career history, responsibilities, and achievements
  • A Personal Statement (no more than 650 words) which should outline your experience and skills, giving clear examples of work undertaken. It should specifically address the following essential criteria listed below, using a separate paragraph for each.
  • Technical and Analytical skills and problem solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including proficiency with SQL and experience querying, manipulating and investigating data held on relational databases. Ability to analyse information from different sources, identify patterns, issues and risks, and use evidence to support clear conclusions, options and recommendations.
  • Data improvement and data quality: Good understanding of how data is collected, managed and used, and the importance of high-quality, accessible and usable data with Experience investigating data availability, quality and suitability for different purposes, identifying gaps and opportunities to improve data processes, standards, reporting or data products.

A diverse sift panel will review the information in your CV and Personal Statement to assess the sift criteria specified above. We operate an anonymous shortlisting process. Please ensure your CV and Personal Statement do not include your name or any other identifying details.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on the below criteria will be conducted before the sift.

Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply - Application Guidance

Stage 2 - Interviews:

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a panel interview held via Microsoft Teams. At interview stage, you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements - Experience, Technical and the following Behaviours:

  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Changing and Improving
  • Managing a Quality Service

The interview process will consist of a technical exercise that assesses you against the Technical and Analytical skills criteria followed by questions about your relevant experience, and the Civil Service Behaviours outlined in the job description. Further details will be provided if successful at sift.

Appointments are made strictly in merit order. In the event that two or more candidates receive identical interview scores, the technical and analytical skills criteria will be applied as the primary lead criterion to determine the final merit order.

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Stage 1 - Application and sift:

  • A Personal Statement (no more than 650 words) which should outline your experience and skills, giving clear examples of work undertaken. It should specifically address the following essential criteria listed below, using a separate paragraph for each.

    - Technical and Analytical skills and problem solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including proficiency with SQL and experience querying, manipulating and investigating data held on relational databases. Ability to analyse information from different sources, identify patterns, issues and risks, and use evidence to support clear conclusions, options and recommendations.

    - Data improvement and data quality: Good understanding of how data is collected, managed and used, and the importance of high-quality, accessible and usable data with Experience investigating data availability, quality and suitability for different purposes, identifying gaps and opportunities to improve data processes, standards, reporting or data products.

    - Collaborative working: Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, bringing together analytical, technical and operational perspectives to support practical improvements in a prison, justice or similarly complex delivery context.

Stage 2 - Interviews:

  • Changing and Improving

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

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  • Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk

Additional information

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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