Office for National Statistics
Quality Specialist
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Location: The locations for this role are Newport, Titchfield (Fareham), and Darlington.
We operate a flexible hybrid working model across the UK, with colleagues linked to one of our contractual locations and working between office and remote throughout the week. As part of the hybrid working arrangement there is a 40% minimum office attendance requirement.
Salary: £34,587
Working Patterns: All our vacancies are offered as a flexible option of Full time, Part time, Flexible working, Job Share
Closing Date: Apply before 11:55pm on Monday 3rd August 2026
Important - For Office for National Statistics (ONS) the requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for 3 consecutive years immediately prior to applying.
Person specification
Essential Criteria:
- Strong experience in data management, data analysis, or data engineering that can be applied to assessing and improving data quality.
- Strong communication and influencing skills. This includes the ability to present on technical subjects to a range of audiences, influence stakeholders, and clearly brief more senior management.
- Experience of working with different stakeholders from different parts of the organisation and with different roles, building positive collaborative working relationships.
- Actively seeks opportunities to improve services and ways of working, demonstrating innovation and adaptability, and delivering positive, measurable improvements to performance and outcomes.
- Experience of working with government data, and/or with official statistics in accordance with the Code of Practice for Statistics.
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APPLICATION PROCESS
The application process requires writing a Personal Statement. Your personal statement should be no longer than 1250 words. You should use this space fully to provide evidence for each Essential Criteria listed in the Person Specification. As the criteria are scored, we would recommend that you give clear examples for each including the impact of your actions using the STAR method.
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- Result - what happened as a result of your action and what you learned from the experience.
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In return we offer you:
- ✔Hybrid working and flexi-time so you can work around your life, not the other way around!
- ✔A market leading pension scheme - our employer contribution rate is around 29%
- ✔A choice of working patterns for every role full-time, part-time, job-share.
- ✔Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of 26 weeks full pay (subject to qualifying criteria)
- ✔Opportunities to learn new technology & skills on the job, utilising blocked out Protected Learning Time in your weekly schedule and taking advantage of the support of our Communities of Practice
- ✔Employee Assistance Programmes
- ✔Diversity Network Groups
- ✔Mental Health Allies
- ✔Civil Service Sports and Social club
- ✔Generous holiday allowance – 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years service in addition to 9 public holidays
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