Operational Planning Local Support Officer
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Job Title: Operational Planning Local Support 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:
- Act as SPOC for central operational planning tactical support to the business areas, in conjunction with the wider Workforce Planning & Deployment team
- Provide advice and guidance to the relevant business unit and local business resource planners across the organisation on the correct processes and policies for undertaking workforce planning and deployment activities.
- Collaborate across the business units to gather information required for the corporate management and deployment of the workforce, including input to monthly deployment decision and people movement panels.
- Responsible for ensuring the business maintains accurate and timely processing of the local business posting process with communications to both internal stakeholders and outsourced partners.
- Maintain accurate logs of activities and requirements for each business unit to ensure clear and accurate record keeping and escalation details
- Act as an ambassador for data updates used in the dashboards so that they are trusted by the wider organisation
- First line response at local unit resource planning meetings, owning the relationships and delivering accurate and timely support and communication
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
- 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 14th 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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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
- Proficiency in data analysis tools and interested in emerging techniques and technology
- Adaptability to a fast-paced environment and ever-changing priorities
- Understanding of GDPR, HR Policy, and Employment Legislation.
- We take ownership at level 2
- We analyse critically at level 2
- Accountability
- Integrity
The Met is committed to being an equitable (fair and impartial) and inclusive employer for disabled people, striving to have a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term conditions, ethnic minority groups and women.
As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
The Met is committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process to ensure disabled applicants can perform at their best. If you need any reasonable adjustments or changes to the application and recruitment process, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence.
Please note, if you are applying for a police officer role or to become a police community support officer (PCSO) or designated detention officer (DDO), there is a minimum requirement that you must pass a job-related fitness test (JRFT) at point of entry. This does not apply to police staff roles. Find out more about police fitness standards.
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