Data Visualisation Developer in Lewes

Join Us and Make an Impact from Day One. At Sussex Police, you’ll be part of a team that makes a real difference, protecting vulnerable people, preventing harm, and keeping communities safe.

If you have a passion for report design and customer engagement this is your chance to apply your creativity and analytical skills in a meaningful way. You’ll join our Strategic Insights Team, where we combine research, data analytics, and operational understanding to shape strategies that deliver effective services across the organisation.

As a Data Visualisation Developer, you’ll transform complex data into compelling insights through Power BI dashboards that are visually engaging, intuitive, and impactful. Your work will help senior leaders make informed decisions that directly influence policing priorities.

• Design with Purpose: Create reports that follow best practices in layout, colour, and interactivity, bringing clarity and insight to data.
• Understand the Audience: Build strong relationships with stakeholders, uncover their challenges, and translate them into actionable reporting solutions.
• Drive Engagement: Develop help guides, FAQs, video tutorials, and user-friendly resources to ensure reports are understood and adopted.
• Collaborate and Innovate: Work with a team of analysts and Power BI developers to test data quality and deliver accurate, trusted reporting solutions.
• Be a Voice for Insight: Represent the Strategic Insights Team in meetings and share your expertise with colleagues and partners.

This role is perfect for someone who enjoys blending data storytelling with design thinking. You’ll use your customer-centric mindset to make data accessible, engaging, and persuasive, transforming complex insights into clear narratives that inspire action, influence decisions, and drive meaningful outcomes across the organisation.

Skills & Experience

• A Level or equivalent standard education.
• Demonstrable ability to design and create reports in Microsoft Power BI from a variety of data sources. Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate with a wide spectrum of people, both verbal and written.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to be respectful, empathetic and non-judgemental, maintaining professional standards at all times.
• Problem solving skills including interpretation, analysis, evaluation and resolution from a range of data.
• Good organisational skills with the ability to work under pressure and to work to tight deadlines and within particular timeframes.
• Effective time management and prioritisation skills in order to ensure that the workload is managed to meet timescales without constant close supervision.

Why Work With Us?

Policing is an exciting 24/7 business and we all have commitments outside work. We’re invested in supporting people to balance their life with work and we encourage flexible working. We are open to conversations about job shares and part time working. We encourage agile working, giving you the opportunity to manage your own diary and work wherever you give the best service to the public. This may include flexi-time and home working. We take pride in looking after our people and offer a variety of benefits:

• career progression
• contributory pension scheme (LGPS)
• generous annual leave allowance
• discounts for everyday spend
• on-site gyms and a range of sports clubs
• generous and supportive parental leave
• financial and mental wellbeing guidance and support
• discounted contributory healthcare scheme

If you would like to discuss the role please contact either Liz David or Anne Caister and we will be happy to answer any questions you have.

Diversity Statement

We are only as good as our people. It’s important that our officers and staff can be themselves in the workplace and we know that as an organisation we’ll grow from the variety of thinking, approach, and the skills that diversity brings; all of which help us to deliver a better policing service. We strive to ensure how we deliver our services, provide information and how we recruit is open and accessible to all. We have multiple staff support groups who help to improve our understanding of minority issues and ensure they are reflected in our work. We are proud members of Disability Confident, hold Race Equality Matters Trailblazer status, are a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and are aligned with the Armed Forces Covenant and the HeForShe movement. We are committed to being an anti-racist police service. We promise to challenge injustice, ensure fairness and to uphold anti-racist principles in both our organisation and our communities. We value the differences that people bring from all backgrounds and communities. Regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, disability, social status, or religious belief, we would love to hear from you.