Senior Performance Analyst

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Please note, we do not accept CVs submitted without a fully completed online application form.

We have an excellent opportunity available for a Senior Performance Analyst to join our Adult Services Team at Wokingham Borough Council, on a full time, permanent basis.

As Senior Performance Analyst, you’ll help people make better decisions across Community Safety and Adult Safeguarding. Your focus will be to design and run, a clear and reliable way of tracking performance for the Wokingham Borough Safer Communities Partnership Board. You’ll provide analysis that is timely, accurate and easy to understand, so it can be used to improve services and plan for the future.

As part of the Development and Insight Team, you’ll support the wider Adult Social Care directorate. You’ll work on a range of data and insight activity that helps teams understand how services are performing, manage risks, and keep making improvements.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an Award-Winning Local Authority, that currently scores as one of the highest in the country following our recent CQC inspection. We were also ranked the 2nd most productive council in England by the Impower Productivity Index, recognising our strong performance and efficient use of public money.

Wokingham Borough Council is proud to support #SocialCareFuture, a movement working to change how we think about social care. Its goal is simple: everyone should be able to live in a place they call home, with the people and things they love, in communities that care and help them do what matters most.

If you are passionate about using insight and analysis to improve services and outcomes for residents, we would welcome your application!

⭐Staff Benefits⭐

Not only is this an excellent opportunity, but it’s a fantastic time to join our team. You will receive an extensive range of employee benefits including:

⭐Generous Annual Leave entitlement of 30 days (rising by 5 days after 5 years of continued local government service), plus bank holidays

⭐Local Government Pension Scheme

⭐GP Helpline 7 days per week

⭐Employee Assistance Programme with a 24/7 Your Care confidential helpline

⭐Free Eye Tests and Flu Vaccines

⭐Free Onsite Gym (located at Shute End, Wokingham)

⭐Salary Sacrifice Schemes – including Car and Cycle to Work

⭐Local & Lifestyle Discounts – savings on shopping, entertainment, restaurants, and more

⭐Move through Menopause Course

⭐Sports & Social Group Activities – running, football, cricket, and more

⭐Learning & Development Opportunities

⭐Employee Networks

⭐And more!

Key responsibilities:

• Utilise qualitative and quantitative data from a range of sources to identify patterns and trends in Adult Safeguarding, crime, domestic abuse, anti‑social behaviour and service performance to inform strategy development and drive change. Provide regular, accurate, and valuable performance management information and analysis to enhance insight and improve decision making.
• Act as the data lead for the Wokingham Borough Safer Communities Partnership Board and its associated subgroups, presenting insights, reports, and recommendations at key meetings with board partners and residents, as required.
• Build close working relationships with operational staff and develop detailed knowledge of the analytical requirements of the services.
• Proactively identify opportunities to use data and analysis to support teams in solving complex problems, applying critical thinking and independent judgement to develop meaningful insights.
• Identify developments in best practice, policy, legislative, social, economic, and other changes, assessing local impact and producing recommendations for senior management consideration.

Candidate requirements:

• Demonstrable experience analysing and interpreting crime data to support performance monitoring, policy development or service improvement, including data shared across partners (e.g. local authorities, police or community safety partnerships).
• High level of numeracy with strong competence in descriptive analysis. Ability to interpret and explain statistical findings, including identifying trends and anomalies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to present the results of analysis in various formats (e.g. strategic reports, presentations) and to meet the needs of both technical and non-technical audiences. Able to make recommendations for decision making and justify these effectively.
• Experience of working in a matrix management environment, where cross-team and cross-organisation working are required.

About Wokingham

Wokingham Borough sits in the heart of Berkshire, close to Reading and London, with great transport links. It’s a safe and thriving place to live and work, with good schools, open countryside, and a strong sense of community. We’re also committed to becoming a Marmot Borough, focusing on prevention, early intervention, and reducing inequalities across our diverse community.

If you’d like to apply, click the link below.
For an informal chat, please contact Jo Taplin, Performance Analyst Lead - jo.taplin@wokingham.gov.uk

Closing Date: 24th May 2026, 11pm

Interview Date: TBC

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Please note that all offers are conditional and subject to the satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks.

Please be aware that we will be reviewing the applications we receive on a daily basis, and we reserve the right to close the advert early if suitable candidates are identified.

Wokingham Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff, other workers and volunteers to share this commitment.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regret that we are unable to respond to every applicant individually.

If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the application closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

We appreciate your interest in joining Wokingham Borough Council and thank you for taking the time to apply.

Wokingham is an equal opportunities employer.