Performance BI Analyst Apprenticeship

Performance BI Analyst Apprenticeship

• National Minimum Wage/Living Wage
• Full Time – 37 hours per week
• Fixed Term Contract (18-24 Months)
• Joint Headquarters, Sherwood Lodge, Arnold, Nottingham NG5 8PP

Join Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service – We’re Hiring Now!

An opportunity has arisen within Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service for a Performance BI Analyst Apprentice to join the Business Intelligence team.

In this role, you’ll support the team in turning data into useful information that helps services understand their performance and make informed decisions. You’ll gain practical experience across the full data process, from gathering and checking data through to helping produce reports and dashboards. 

Day to day, you’ll work with tools such as Power BI, help maintain data systems, and support colleagues across the organisation with their data and reporting needs. You’ll also work closely with different teams, giving you a good understanding of how data is used to improve services.

This is a hands-on role with support and training, giving you the chance to build your skills while making a real contribution to the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• This is a hands-on role with support and training, giving you the chance to build your skills while making a real contribution to the organisation.
• Support the team in creating reports and dashboards, including interactive ones in Power BI, so information is easy to understand and use.
• Help respond to requests for data and performance information from different teams.
• Check data for accuracy and work with colleagues to fix any issues you come across.
• Get involved in maintaining and developing data systems, including supporting data warehousing activities.
• Turn data into clear outputs like charts, reports, and dashboards that help people make decisions.
• Work closely with colleagues across the organisation to understand what they need and how data can support them.
• Learn and start to use different analytical techniques (like forecasting or trend analysis) to support the team’s work.

Experience/Qualification

• Experience of working effectively as part of a team
• Comfortable working with numbers and using data to identify patterns or trends
• Able to think logically and analyse information to solve problems
• Able to plan and organise your work, manage priorities, and work to deadlines
• General IT awareness and confidence using main Microsoft Office applications
• GCSE (or equivalent) in English and Maths at Grade 4/C or above

To understand the role in more details, please read the attached job description and person specification document.

Why Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service?

• Agile Working – We are very proud to offer employees the ability to mix office working with working from home to provide flexibility to help with your work life balance
• Flexibility – We are family friendly and are open to considering different working patterns which help you provide a better service to our community while supporting  your home life. We are also open to part time working
• Annual Leave - 26 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays and a Christmas concessionary day
• Health and Wellbeing – As a Service we provide a wide range of Health and Wellbeing support to all our employees which includes a membership to Bupa and a dedicated Occupational Health team who are there to support you. Also, all employees receive free access to a gym
• Blue Light Card enabling discounts on shopping and eating out
• Development – You will have access to both formal and informal professional development opportunities which will help you advance your career
• Pension – Access to a public service defined benefit pension scheme

If you feel you have the skills and experience we are looking for and want to play an integral part in keeping Nottinghamshire communities safe, then we look forward to hearing from you.

Further Information

We are proud to be an equal opportunities’ and ‘Disability Confident’ employer, and we are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce. We welcome applications from all parts of our communities and particularly those who are currently under-represented in our workforce. We are also proud of being recognised as a ‘Gold’ employer for our Armed Forces Covenant commitments.

NFRS is committed to the safeguarding and protection of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and or neglect and operates a safer recruitment process.

The successful candidate will be subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service check and a Police Vetting check. Applicants must have had 3 years continuous residency in the UK to be eligible for a Police Vetting check.

Please note that CVs will not be accepted in place of application forms.

Closing date: 31 July 2026 Interview date: 17 and 18 August 2026