Over recent years there has been a drive towards evidence based decision making in relation to the development and provision of local services. Providing data and information to enable this is essential. This role will play a key part in the development of the provision and use of data and information in Kingston and be involved in a variety of work streams and projects.
The post holder will provide the GIS expertise for the team and lead on the development and use of mapping in our data analysis work. In addition, crime data analysis; work on the Safer Kingston Partnership’s Strategic
Assessment; and co-ordinating Offender Management through the Partnership’s Integrated Offender
Management arrangements will be part of the role.
We are developing Kingston Data which is a central information resource for data on the borough for use by Local
Authority officers, Councillors, partners and residents. The website, data.kingston.gov.uk, was launched last year and is being developed to include Open Data required by the Transparency Code and the Joint Strategic Needs
Assessment. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the website is up-to-date and work as part of a team to develop it further. This is a shared project with Richmond and Sutton Councils.
The Safer Kingston Partnership is the body responsible for reducing crime, disorder, re-offending, and substance misuse in the borough. The Partnership is formed of a wide range of public, private and third sector organisations. Kingston Council is one of the statutory partners along with the Metropolitan Police, London Fire
Brigade, National Probation Service, London Community Rehabilitation Company and the Kingston Clinical
Commissioning Group. By working together we are able to focus resources to ensure Kingston is a safe place to live, work and visit.
The Partnership is supported by a multidisciplinary team working across Strategic Business. The post holder will lead on crime analysis and Safer Kingston’s annual Strategic Assessment, as well as becoming involved in some of the wider policy work of the Partnership, in particular Reducing Re-offending and Integrated Offender
Management (IOM). IOM aims to bring together all the different offender management structures in an area, and manages a cohort of offenders living in the community and selected according to their risk of re-offending.
As a Senior Business Analyst the post holder will need to:
- enjoy analysing data and helping people to understand it
- have exceptional data analysis, interpretation and visualisation skills
- have excellent GIS skills (ideally MapInfo and/or ESRI) and ICT ability and aptitude to learn new systems
- have excellent MS Office skills (especially Excel)
- be able to share their skills and train Business Analysts
- lead on a variety of projects
- provide geographical crime analysis support to the Safer Kingston Partnership
- co-ordinate the Integrated Offender Management Scheme, crime analysis and other work on behalf of the
Safer Kingston Partnership
As this post will require access to sensitive personal data held on Metropolitan Police and other agency systems, the successful applicant will be required to undergo the Police Counter Terrorist Security Check vetting procedure and sign the Official Secrets Act declaration.

Performance and Data Team
This role is within the Performance and Data (P&D) Team. The overall aim for the P&D Team is to support the
Council in being a commissioning authority, to be more performance focused and business oriented in its approach. The team has a wide remit including:
- Submitting statutory returns to Government
- Council Performance Guidance and Reporting
- Providing a data and information service for the Council
- Business planning and improvement
This role is primarily focussed on data and information services for the Council but could also help with work in the wider P&D Team and the Strategic Business service. It is expected that although the role may have responsibilities for specific service areas all team members are given the opportunity to support and work in areas that may not be their ‘primary’ specialism.
Strategic Business
During 2010 a review was conducted and a new unit created called Strategic Business. Strategic Business pulls together many staff that were previously based within different departments of Kingston Council. Strategic
Business covers the following areas:
- Commissioning
- Communications
- Communities
- Corporate Governance (includes Electoral Services, Democratic Support and Information Governance)
- Data, Performance, Research & Development
- Strategic Planning