AWE
Independent Oversight & Peer Review Support Practitioner
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Independent Oversight & Peer Review Support Practitioner
Closing date: 11th August 2026
Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.
Package: £27,350 - £40,000pa. (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)
Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.
Ready to play your part?
At AWE, it’s not just a job, it’s far more than that. Our shared purpose is to help keep the nation safe. Could this role be the opportunity for you to play your part?
Independent Oversight (IO) provides objective assurance and advice on the effectiveness of governance, risk management, and internal controls, including the manner in which the first and second lines of assurance achieve risk management and control objectives.
This role provides timely, accurate and reliable data reporting, information-management and administrative support to the Independent Oversight & Peer Review team. A core part of the role involves analysing assurance data, identifying trends and insights, supporting reporting and helping the management team make evidence-based decisions.
Key Accountabilities
- Transforming Independent Oversight and Peer Review data into actionable insights, reports, and management information that support improvement, decision-making and identification of emerging themes.
- Continuously improve processes by making appropriate proposals and implementing agreed improvements.
- Identify problems and data-quality issues, developing solutions within agreed parameters or escalating where necessary.
- Maintain high standards of information management and administration services.
- Administration of tasks in support of Independent Oversight & Peer Review deliverables.
- Build positive, open and enduring relationships with stakeholders and team.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse and interrogate Independent Oversight and Peer Review datasets to identify trends, themes, insights and improvement opportunities that support effective reporting
- Cross-check and validate data from multiple sources to ensure the accuracy, consistency and integrity of reporting outputs.
- Maintain and continuously improve Independent Oversight information-management systems, including SharePoint lists, ensuring data remains accurate, useful and capable of supporting effective reporting and analysis.
- Support the development and continuous improvement of reporting products, dashboards and analytical tools used by the team and wider company.
- Provide effective information-management and business support services to the team.
- Support management activities to meet business needs.
- Provide support to Independent Oversight & Peer Review activities, where appropriate.
- Seek and collate business feedback on residual issues
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Who are we looking for?
Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we’d like you to have experience in some of the following:
- Experience using reporting or visualisation tools such as Power BI.
- Experience producing dashboards, management information or performance reports.
- Ability to communicate analytical findings clearly to a range of stakeholders.
- Interest in one or more of the following data analytics, data science or business intelligence skills.
We do need you to have the following:
- Strong analytical skills with experience transforming complex data into meaningful insights, trend analysis, and reporting to support operational needs
- Comfortable working with complex data sets.
- Able to identify trends, themes and areas for improvement.
- Confident using Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel to analyse data, create reports and present information effectively.
- BTEC or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline, or demonstrable relevant experience.
- Able to manage several tasks and deadlines effectively.
- Experience engaging with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
Work hard, be rewarded:
We ask a lot and set the bar high because our work truly matters. In return we offer balance, with award winning benefits including:
- 9-day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
- Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
- Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
- Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
- Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
- Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
- Discounts – access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
- Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.
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Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point above, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.
Important things you need to know:
- We encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment if applications are high and the role therefore closes.
- You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
- We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
- Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.
- Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work. We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide will be stored in accordance with GDPR and kept separate from your application form and CV, and the information will not be shared with anyone involved in interviewing or making hiring decisions.
- Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.
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