About the job

Job summary

We are looking for a dynamic and committed SEO with strong market analytics experience who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and who can support the Head of Commercial MI and Benchmarking, and our Cost Manager.

You will play a key role in ensuring that the Department’s work to support remediation of unsafe buildings following the Grenfell Tower fire is successful by ensuring that industry data and insights are provided to allow leaders to make informed decisions.

The Building Safety Portfolio was established following the Grenfell Tower fire to make sure that high-rise buildings are safe, and that residents feel safe in them, now and in the future. The Portfolio leads the fundamental reform of the building safety system as a priority area of work for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC).

The Commercial Management Information and Benchmarking Team sits at the heart of the Portfolio alongside the Supply Chain Management and Strategy Team, with the purpose of providing a direct link between industry and DLUHC. A key part of this is obtaining data and insight that supports the mitigation of industry constraints and enables the identification of DLUHC led interventions.

This role will support the Portfolio by providing critical data management, analysis and interpretation skills for our internal commercial datasets. This would include analysing our market and supply chain to understand capacity and project risks to support successful delivery of the portfolio.

Job description

Key responsibilities

Be an active part of the team responsible for all commercial MI, analytics, performance metrics and cost benchmarks which feed into the wider portfolio data ecosystem.

• Liaise with programme and wider portfolio teams to establish data requirements and understand how data can be captured from across the portfolio in analysable formats
• Manage, clean, extract, and aggregate data and undertake analysis
• Summarise and present data and relevant conclusions in the most appropriate format for users to inform decision making
• Collate and share MI information with senior stakeholders. This includes identifying, collecting, and migrating data across a range of different systems
• Report to key stakeholders on supplier performance, capability, league tables and other key analytical lenses
• Collaborate with analysts across the SGB Portfolio to extract and challenge data points through applying a commercial lens e.g.: by using models, forecasts and benchmarks
• Support the development of appropriate tools and platforms to provide meaningful data e.g.: use of tools like PowerApps, PowerBI, and advanced Excel
• Able to assess the financial health of companies within the supply chain based on company accounts, data and other publicly available information
• Support with general market analysis activities liaising with other roles across the Market Sectors and SGB Commercial team

Person specification

Key skills/criteria

• Utilise strong verbal and written communication skills - including understanding how to share insights with different groups of stakeholders
• Be proficient/an advanced user of Microsoft’s PowerBI/PowerApps suite of tools
• Understand and be able to perform statistical analysis on large datasets
• Understand data sources, data organisation, storage and cleansing techniques
• Understand and analyse key metrics within company financial data
• Apply a range of tools and techniques to analyse, validate and visualise data through dashboards and present solutions
• Able to analyse and provide insights to support team members and the wider decision-making process for senior leaders 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £38,732, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £10,457 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

We are for everyone 

At DLUHC we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. We promote equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment and a working environment free from discrimination, harassment, bullying and victimisation. 

We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role. 

We are for everyone 

CV and Cover Letter Declaration 

We recruit based on your knowledge and skills, and not background, gender or ethnicity - this is called name blind recruitment. 

Please remove references to your: 

• name/title
• educational institutions
• age
• gender
• email address
• postal address
• phone number
• nationality/immigration status

You will need to merge your CV and covering letter into one document. When submitting your application Applied will ask you to upload a CV, when doing this you should upload your merged document of your CV and covering letter. 

 

Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that your application would be viewed by different assessors. 

 

At sift, through your CV and covering letter we will be assessing: 

How you meet the essential criteria and experience required as set out in the job description. 

 

The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of:

Experience - Experience questions will be based around the roles essential skills and criteria as listed in the job description.

Behaviours - Changing and Improving, Communicating and Influencing, 

Strengths -  The strength based questions will require natural responses from the candidates.  

 

In full the campaign will test the below Success Profile Elements: 

Experience: Experience questions will be based around the essential skills and criteria as listed in the job description 

Strength: Yes 

Behaviours: Yes 

We do not consider direct CV applications – you must apply for this role via the application link on Civil Service Jobs.

Please note that near miss offers may be made at the lower grade to candidates who do not meet the grade criteria for this campaign. 

 

SEO salary 

• The salary for this role is £42,208 (London) or £38,732 (National). 
• For existing civil servants, the usual policy on level transfer and promotion will apply and is non-negotiable. If you apply for a role that requires a transfer of location, for example if you are transferring from London to a National location, your salary will be adjusted in accordance with our policy on transfer between HQ pay ranges. 
   

Please note that the average employer pension contribution is based upon the National minimum salary for this role. Should your agreed starting salary for this role be different, the average employer pension contribution will be calculated accordingly. If you are a Secondee, this will not apply as you will remain on your home organisation’s terms and conditions.   

 

Benefits 

Transfers across the Civil Service on or after 4 October 2018: 

Any move to DLUHC from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk. 

For further information about the benefits available to DLUHC employees, please see the attached Candidate Pack. 

 

Location 

• London 
• Wolverhampton 
• Leeds 
• Manchester
• Darlington* 

There may be opportunities for candidates to work flexibly depending on the business needs. This will be discussed with the vacancy manager on a case-by-case basis if you are successful for the role. 

*Please note: The Darlington Economic Campus is a pioneering new cross-government hub which will bring together people across departments and public organisations to play an active role in the most important economic issues of the day. The work of the Campus will make a real difference to people both across the UK and internationally. There will be substantial career opportunities and exciting prospects - a career at the Campus means you will be working at the heart of Government, with access to the benefits and fantastic opportunities offered by the civil service.   

For further information on the DEC, please take a look at the attached DEC candidate pack. 

Sift and Interview dates 
 
Sifting is envisaged to take place W/C 29/01/24 with interview dates to be confirmed. All interviews are currently being held remotely via videocall. 

Reserve List 

In the event that we identify more appointable candidates than we currently have posts available, we will hold applicant details on a reserve list for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. This may include roles at a lower grade. Candidates placed on a reserve list will be informed of this. Those candidates who do not wish to remain on the reserve list should contact recruitment@levellingup.gov.uk to be removed from the reserve list. 

 

CTC (Counter-terrorism Clearance): 

Important note 

 
Successful candidates for roles based in our 2 Marsham Street building must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check and the process can take up to 8 weeks to complete. 
 
Please note that successful candidates will need to pass the CTC security checks – this requires you to have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years. Please refer to the DLUHC Notes on Security Clearance section of our Candidate Pack for further information on Counter Terrorism Clearance (CTC).  
 

Candidates should also note that with effect from 1st August 2018 the department will also check all applicants who are successful at interview, against the Internal Fraud Database (IFD) held by the Cabinet Office. In accordance with the Civil Service Internal Fraud Policy, any applicant who is included on the IFD will be refused employment by DLUHC. Please see the Candidate Pack for further information on the Internal Fraud Database. 

 

Before starting your application it’s very important to make sure that you are eligible to apply and meet the Civil Service nationality requirements. All candidates are expected to read the information provided in the DLUHC candidate pack regarding nationality requirements and rules 

 

Candidate Pack Information 

Please see attached Candidate pack for further information. 

 

Internal Fraud Database 

The Internal Fraud function of the Fraud, Error, Debt and Grants Function at the Cabinet Office processes details of civil servants who have been dismissed for committing internal fraud, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned.The Cabinet Office receives the details from participating government organisations of civil servants who have been dismissed, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned, for internal fraud. In instances such as this, civil servants are then banned for 5 years from further employment in the civil service. The Cabinet Office then processes this data and discloses a limited dataset back to DLUHC as a participating government organisations. DLUHC then carry out the pre employment checks so as to detect instances where known fraudsters are attempting to reapply for roles in the civil service. In this way, the policy is ensured and the repetition of internal fraud is prevented.  

For more information please see- Internal Fraud Register 

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.