About the job

Job summary

We are Britain’s national equality regulator and a United Nations accredited ‘A status’ national human rights institution.

We uphold people’s rights without fear or favour. We use the full force of our legal powers to defend people from unfair or unequal treatment and to challenge breaches of the law. We advise on developing laws and provide guidance, training and support to enable compliance.

We bring people together to create change. We work with employers, governments and a wide range of organisations, to promote understanding of equality and human rights and we support them to make improvements in practice.

Our strategy for 2022-25 gives us a strong platform to show that we will use our powers to protect and promote equality and human rights, and that we have identified the main challenges in society where we can make a difference in our role as a regulator.

Job description

The Lead Analyst will be a member of the Evidence leadership team, working with one other Principal to contribute effectively to team management, programme management and delivery of our analytical activities.

This role has a particular focus on statistics, data science, knowledge synthesis and communication. Two statisticians report into this Principal – Lead Analyst, with expectation of further staff arriving in the future.  

Principals in the team support the Head of Profession in delivering the data and evidence strategy, ensuring that our organisation achieves its vision of becoming a modern, evidence-led regulator.  

You will:

• Lead a team of two Level 4 (SEO) statisticians, with expectation of adding further Level 4 (SEO) and Level 3 (HEO) staff in future, most likely in mixed methods and knowledge transfer professions.
• Plan and deliver analytical projects, from inception to reporting, to support our statutory reporting obligations and our regulatory activity.
• Support staff to maintain professional standards, with reference to profession-specific competence frameworks.
• Coach and develop staff to provide high quality, innovative analysis that meets user needs.
• Quality assure analysis and reporting to ensure that it is robust and fit for purpose.
• Contribute to workflow management for the team, ensuring that we have a manageable pipeline of work.
• Assist in developing our quantitative analytical function, adopting new processes and techniques, including machine learning.

Person specification

The full list of Knowledge, Skills and Experience required for the role can be found in the Candidate Pack, found at the bottom of this advert.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £53,371, Equality and Human Rights Commission contributes £14,890 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

If this sounds like the role for you, follow the link in the advert to our recruitment portal, Applied.

Appointment to the Equality and Human Rights Commission is overseen by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles.

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email the Commission’s People Helpdesk in the first instance.

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, you can contact the Civil Service Commission.

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

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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.