Job Title: Deployment Officer

Salary: The starting salary is £38,926, which includes allowances totalling £2,928.

The salary is broken down as £35,998 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £38,523. Plus, a location allowance of £1,928 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

Location: Kilburn

London is one of the most exciting and diverse cities in the world – and policing it is no easy task. It takes a huge number of people from all sorts of different backgrounds with a wide range of skills and experience. Do you have what it takes to be one of them? Find out if a career with the Met is what you’re looking for and what kind of challenges; experience and rewards you could have in store.

Working for the Met doesn’t have to mean patrolling the streets. Just as important as our uniformed officers is our 14,000-strong team of professional and support staff working behind the scenes. It’s these skilled people who provide the organisational capability to police London in line with our values.

This is an exciting opportunity within the Workforce Planning and Deployment Team of the Metropolitan Police, delivering the workforce models for the organisation’s People Plan, across more than 70 business units and encompassing a c.50,000 people.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collating and updating internal products with a wide variety of people data for regular assessment and recommendation of potential workforce movement.
• Providing initial analysis for deployment decisions and highlighting risk, issues and challenges that could impact individual business areas.
• Responsible for collaborating across the Met’s HR Operational Planning teams, to inform of workforce movement/posting decisions. Working with colleagues and the business to ensure the correct data is available and published, enabling the business to make decisions on workforce impacts for current year.
• Proactively highlight areas of concern, risk or challenge in our workforce strengths. Provide guidance to colleagues and business areas with workforce deployment governance, processes and panels,
• Provide workforce data assurance to ensure systems are accurately maintained with clear and accurate updates added to all internal products , enabling colleagues to understand and work with the most up to date data.
• Respond quickly to customer queries and concerns ensuring shared learning and a collaborative approach is maintained across the wider team.

Key Skills & Qualifications

• Understanding of workforce planning and deployment processes, and will support the team through adapting to new techniques and technologies to optimise outputs
• Strong ability in the use of Microsoft Excel and ideally in modelling and data analysis tools
• Having an enquiring mind and interested in emerging techniques and technology to support a culture of continuous improvement
• Adaptability to a fast-paced environment and ever-changing priorities
• Understanding of GDPR, HR Policy, and Employment Legislation

Benefits

You’ll also enjoy the kind of great benefits that you’d expect from one of London's largest employers. These include:

• Annual leave entitlement of 28 days plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 5 years of service
• Civil service pension arrangements
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Membership of Met sports and social clubs
• Flexible working conditions and many more.

How to apply

To begin your career at the Met, please click the "apply now" button below. The application process requires a comprehensive CV, a Personal Statement, and an online application form. In your Personal Statement, you should explain your interest in the position and illustrate how your skills and experiences make you a suitable candidate. Please note that you should not submit two copies of your CV, and ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV and/or Personal Statement.

Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 21st August 2025.

Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager.

Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview.

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Who we're looking for: -

Inquisitive and brave, someone who looks for new and effective ways to deliver in role and create value for stakeholders

Dynamic and engaging with strong collaboration skills and ability to inspire and motivate others, building effective relationships with internal and external partners

Expertise in workforce planning and deployment processes, who uses new techniques and technologies to optimise outputs

Experience leading teams within a large and complex organisation

Proficiency in forecasting, modelling, and data analysis tools and interested in machine learning and AI technology

Adaptability to a fast-paced environment and ever-changing priorities

Understanding of GDPR, HR Policy, and Employment Legislation