Area Performance Analyst

Job summary

Are you passionate about turning data into meaningful insight that drives real change? As a Performance Analyst, you play a key role in helping the Area and organisation understand how it's performing, identify opportunities for improvement, and support evidence-based decision-making at all levels.

Working with a wide range of stakeholders, you transform complex data into clear, actionable insight that helps shape strategic priorities and improve operational performance. You use your analytical expertise to identify trends, highlight risks and opportunities, and provide trusted insight that supports better outcomes and improved performance.

This is more than a reporting role. You are a valued partner, helping colleagues confidently interpret and use performance information to inform decisions. Through compelling data storytelling, engaging visualisations, and clear communication, you ensure that insight is accessible, meaningful, and drives continuous improvement.

The Crown Prosecution Service is based in England and Wales. If you’re applying for this role and live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you must let us know when accepting this offer as you need permission to work from your home address if hybrid working is part of your role. There’s no guarantee that we will grant this approval.

You must be aged 18 or over at the point of starting in this role. The expected start date is approximately 8–12 weeks after the application closing date. You are expected to commence employment as soon as possible following the expiry of your notice period. Requests for significantly later start dates may not be accommodated.

Job description

Your roles and responsibilities include:

• Analysing operational performance data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Producing clear reports, dashboards, and visualisations to support evidence-based decisions working within specified timeframes
• Communicating insights effectively, adapting style for different audiences, and using storytelling to make findings compelling.
• Validating data and ensure outputs meet quality assurance standards, taking accountability for accuracy and reliability.
• Acting as a subject matter expert, guiding non-analytical colleagues to interpret data confidently and build trust in insights.

A copy of the full job description is attached.

Person specification

It is essential that you have the following experience..

• Experience of undertaking analysis and providing insight and producing clear graphical representations and data visualisations.
• Experience of presenting analysis and insight to non-technical audience to enable evidence based and data driven decisions.

It is desirable that you have the following experience but it is not required..

• Practical knowledge of basic mathematic, excel formulas or similar.
• Experience of working on performance in CPS, Criminal Justice System or other operational organisation.
• Membership of GSS, GORs or other equivalent membership is desirable.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Delivering at Pace

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £37,615, Crown Prosecution Service contributes £10,897 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).

Join the Crown Prosecution Service and find your purpose.

The Crown Prosecution Service is passionate about ensuring that we're a top performing organisation and a great place to work. We're a committed equal opportunities employer, creating a culture where you can bring your whole self to work, and individuality is truly appreciated.

This culture of inclusion is underpinned by our staff networks covering disability, faith and belief, LGBTQI+, race, social mobility alongside our mental health first aiders programme and wellbeing sessions.

The Crown Prosecution Service commits to offer its employees the following experience.

• You can do impactful, purposeful work that’s making a difference to your local communities.
• You are able to learn and grow, with access to the right opportunities and resources.
• We care about your wellbeing.
• We want you to feel valued, trusted and included.

We also offer the following range of benefits:

• Civil Service contributory pension of up to 28.9%
• 25 days’ leave, increasing to 30 days after 5 years
• £350 each year to spend on personal development
• lawyer training programme for all new prosecutors
• an extra privilege day to mark the King's birthday
• competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
• flexible working including flexitime, and a family friendly approach to work
• Cycle2Work scheme, employee savings.

The Crown Prosecution Service has fixed rates for its Higher Executive Officer grade – a developing rate (the starting salary) and a spot rate (the maximum salary). Applicants typically join us on the developing rate and, after completing a 18-month development period, move to the spot rate – this is subject to your line manager confirming that you’re performing the role to a satisfactory standard.

If you’re joining the Crown Prosecution Service on a lateral transfer from another government department, you should contact us about the impact on your salary and the implications of any time you’ve already spent at that grade before applying or accepting an employment offer. Your salary may be adjusted if your location changes when you join us. This adjustment also takes into account any existing allowances that may have previously been consolidated into your basic pay – there’s no guarantee that you can retain these when you transfer.

We want to ensure our employees can thrive at work and home and offer a range of support to achieve a balance. This includes flexibility of working hours, flexibility to support caring responsibilities and a flexible approach to deployment. We offer a hybrid working policy. You must spend at least 40% of your contracted hours over a four-week period at court, in an office or another official workplace depending on business need and the kind of work you're doing.

Things you need to know

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

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