Data Scientist

New Zealand Police is working with the community to make New Zealanders be safe and feel safe. With over 13,000 staff, we provide policing services 24 hours a day, every day. We operate by land, sea and air, manage over 860,000 emergency calls a year and are always actively preventing crime and crashes.

We’re working towards specific goals and targets that highlight our intent to work collaboratively with iwi and communities, other government sectors and business partners to deliver ‘Our Business’ and achieve long-term change.

**Senior Analyst - Insights and Systems**: National Intelligence Centre, it starts with you
- Based at the Police National Headquarters, Thorndon, Wellington
- Permanent

About the role

The purpose of the National Intelligence Centre is to actively enable decision maker advantage at strategic, operational, and tactical levels for Districts, the Executive and other domestic and international agencies.

As Senior Analyst Insights and Systems, you will help us to understand and maximise our capabilities with respect to core datasets using data science techniques. You will also assist with analysis for location-based intelligence and reporting for Police.

The Senior Analyst Insights and Systems will provide technical expertise, peer review and advice regarding data analysis, and in the development, processing, and maintenance of data sets with a particular focus on location-based data for the NIC.

Key Accountabilities
- Ability to enhance the accuracy, efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of NIC intelligence reporting by developing and maintaining internal and combined multi-agency data sets, and data delivery processes.
- Provide peer review
- Work with the Geospatial team to use and enhance data for visualisation and storytelling.
- Develop innovative solutions to data challenges in the NIC.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Experience in managing, analysing, and reporting upon data in a large organisation.
- Able to develop reports and data extracts in SAS and Business Objects.
- Data process development and delivery of training to support Capability across Intelligence workgroups
- Provide peer review and quality assurance for team members work
- Contribute in a positive manner to the effective daily operation and data reporting standards for the Geospatial and wider Innovations and Capability team in the NIC

What you’ll bring

Being part of the Police whānau is about being our best to ensure our communities are safe and feel safe. Our Core Competencies provide a shared understanding of the behaviour, leadership and technical competence required for success at each level of Police.

Whilst we are looking for skills, knowledge, and experience relevant to the role, we also place high importance on your state of mind, the alignment of your values with ours, your ability to contribute to and build high performing teams, and the way that you lead yourself or others.
- Technical and analytical skills in the use of complex data, statistics, and associated reporting tools (e.g. SQL, SAS, Power BI, R, Python and Business Objects)
- Interest in geospatial and some knowledge of ArcGIS
- Strategic and conceptual thinking.
- Creative, Innovative.
- Able to influence decision-makers and work effectively with counterparts in other business units within the organisation.
- Insightful and analytical thinker who can organise, analyse, and interpret data.
- Work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a dynamic fast-paced environment
- An ability to create data products that will support geospatial visualisation and infographics to support communication initiatives.
- Ability to identify, build and maintain effective relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.

**Requirements**:
A tertiary qualification or relevant work experience containing a significant component of statistics and data analysis. For example, a postgraduate qualification in data science, geomatics, or sciences with a significant statistics and analytical component

Must be able hold and maintain a National Security Clearance.

This role is set at Individual Contributor level, this means your key purpose is “to deliver or enable others to deliver Our Business”.

We will ask you questions based on “How we will deliver Our Business - Core Competencies” and the appropriate role level, i.e. Individual Contributor.

These questions will be unique and specific to the role, focusing on the aspects the hiring manager believes are most important for that position at the time.

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About us

Our mission is to prevent crime and harm through exceptional policing. Our vision is to be the safest country. Our purpose is to ensure everybody can be safe and feel safe.

Working Flexibly

Your wellbeing inside and outside of work is important to us. We’re open to discussin