About the job

Job summary

The Government Legal Department is the largest provider of legal services across government, working on high profile matters that are frequently scrutinised in Parliament and the media. Our work includes: 

• Developing and drafting legislation
• Providing legal advice on policies
• Securing our economic and trade relationships
• Ensuring value from commercial contracts worth billions of pounds
• Providing the Civil Service’s employment law advice

We are at the heart of delivering the Government’s priorities and our success depends on our people.

GLD is a non-ministerial government department, sponsored by the Attorney General. We are headed by the Treasury Solicitor, our Permanent Secretary and employ nearly 3000 people, including over 2000 legal professionals. Our offices include London, Leeds, Bristol, Croydon and Manchester as well as overseas. We provide specialist legal services including Litigation, Employment and Commercial Law as well as advising most Government Departments on the policies and services they deliver.

GLD also depends on a range of vital corporate services. These are essential to the smooth and efficient running of the Department and provide the foundation to enable GLD to deliver outstanding legal services. Our corporate functions include Strategy, HR, Finance, Digital, Data and Technology, Communications, Security, Commercial and Project delivery. 

Our vision is to be an outstanding legal organisation and a brilliant place to work where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. This is an exciting time for GLD, with cutting edge

legal work on global issues and a transformation agenda which is ensuring the Department exemplifies the Modern Civil Service.  

To find out more about what we do visit the Government Legal Department’s webpage or have a look at this short film which showcases the breadth of work government lawyers and legal trainees are involved in.

Job description

About the Knowledge and Innovation Group

The work of the Knowledge & Innovation (K&I) Group is core to all our legal work in GLD.

The K&I Group is a group of lawyers, specialists and administrators whose role is to advance GLD’s Knowledge, Capability and Innovation Strategy (KCI Strategy), which supports all GLD’s broader strategic outcomes and is particularly aligned with the ‘capability’ and ‘professionalise’ outcomes. 

The K&I Group’s key areas of responsibility are: 

• Legal practice innovation and GLD’s broader grassroots innovation activities.

• Knowledge development and sharing in all its forms both within and across GLD Divisions, with the wider Government Legal Profession (GLP), and with clients.

• Legal Learning across GLD Divisions, with the wider Government Legal Profession (GLP)

• Legal information and library services (including the subscription services (Lexis, etc) we manage on behalf of GLD and the GLP.

These areas of focus require K&I Group colleagues to be very collaborative and outward looking, facilitating and advising communities of practice and on local legal Division activity, as well as driving central initiatives; actively engaging with GLP

colleagues; and pro-actively collaborating with the broader legal sector, government and academia.

The Role

This new permanent Data Analyst role for the K&I Group reflects the development of the Group and the growth of our knowledge services’ portfolio. A data analyst collects, organises and studies data to provide business insight. The role will suit a strongly motivated applicant with proven skills and the ability to drive, support and advise on the effective analysis of, and then the effective provision of knowledge systems data for GLD, the GLP and our clients.

Data is at the heart of everything we do including knowledge, learning and information systems and our work to understand and improve legal processes.

The Analyst’s primary responsibilities will be to support all K&I group activities, to understand how we can help to improve our lawyer’s day-to-day work. To present data in a format which will enable GLD colleagues to understand and identify system user and usage trends and help them plan how GLD knowledge systems can be best used to help deliver quality legal services to our clients,

Using your existing experience in the analysis and presentation of data to advise K&I colleagues how to use data successfully to support business outcomes.

Reporting directly to the Portfolio Manager, the Data Analyst role will be core to the Group’s work and achievement. The Analyst will work closely with colleagues across the Group’s specialist areas. The Analyst will have the opportunity to engage with the Knowledge Communities working in GLD and to engage with other business professional colleagues working in our Change and DDAT teams.

Key responsibilities:

1. Use existing experience in applying tools and techniques for data analysis and data visualisation
2. identify, collect, and migrate data to and from a range of systems
3. manage, clean, abstract data alongside a range of analytical studies on that data
4. manipulate and link different data sets
5. summarise and present data and conclusions in the most appropriate format for users
6. support and advise K&I colleagues in the collection and presentation of data/analysing survey results in a knowledge sharing capacity for the team to develop effective usage of data
7. support K&I colleagues in the development and usage of data for reporting purposes 
8. support the Programme Manager to enhance management of the portfolio through data analysis
9. Developing good relationships with our stakeholders and presenting data in a form which can be easily understood by GLD knowledge communities and others 
10. Identifying and managing how our systems data is sourced, organised, and stored 
11. Overseeing data quality assurance, validation, and linkage
12. Demonstrating a knowledge of data cleansing and standardisation
13. Interpreting requirements and presenting data in a clear and compelling way, using graphical representations and data visualisations

Person specification

Behaviours

Below are details of the Success Profiles that make up this role.

You will be expected to provide evidence to show how you meet the criteria at interview and/or selection stage.

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing (lead behaviour)
• Delivering at pace
• Working Together

Experience

• Knowledge Sharing
• Communication
• Data Management
• Data modelling, cleansing and enrichment
• Data quality assurance, validation and linkage
• Data visualisation

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £31,393, Government Legal Department contributes £8,476 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.

Application

To apply for this post, you will need to complete the online application process. This should be completed no later than Monday 29th January 2024 at 23:55 and will involve completing the sections in the online application outlined below: To apply for this post, you will be required to complete:

Applicants will be asked to provide the following:

• A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years. The CV will be assessed and scored assessing

• Please provide examples (in no more than 250 words) for each behaviour listed against the essential criteria
• Communicating and Influencing (Lead Behaviour)
• Delivering at pace
• Working Together

Selection Process

After the closing date, the appointing panel shall assess candidates’ suitability for the role based on evidence provided in their application against the behaviours and experience outlined in the person specification.

Please note, if large number of applications are received then we will sift on the Lead Behaviour alone.

Interview

Should you be successful in being invited to interview, you will be assessed on your performance in all essential criteria as listed in the Person Specification, alongside scenario based exercises and strength-based questions. Candidates invited to interview will be given further information on the day and time to prepare.

• Behaviour: Communicating and Influencing (Lead behaviour)
• Behaviour: Delivering at pace
• Behaviour: Working Together
• Experience

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview.

Interviews will probably take place remotely via video conference, full details of the interview format will be provided to shortlisted candidates prior to interview.] The timeline later in this pack indicates the date by which decisions are expected to be made, and all shortlisted candidates will be advised of the outcome as soon as possible thereafter.

Offer

Regardless of the outcome, we will notify all candidates as soon as possible after the final interview.

We appoint in strict order of merit. If you meet the minimum criteria for this position but are not successful for a post, you will be placed on the reserve list for up to 12 months.  We then may contact you to see if you are interested in a post at the same, or a lower grade, in GLD should one arise.

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. 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.