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

Working as a Senior Associate - Analyst at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, you will be part of a programme of work to build a robust evidence base and maintain the organisation’s reputation as a ‘centre of excellence’ for equality and human rights analysis.  

You will have a key role in developing our portfolio of qualitative and quantitative analyses across varied high-profile equality and human rights issues, in the heart of a dynamic and responsive organisation. Working flexibly and collaboratively, you will be a self-starter who can use mixed-methods analytical skills and knowledge to quickly develop and deliver responses to data and evidence needs in a fast-paced multi-disciplinary environment. 

You will have high levels of delivery responsibility, and will regularly deploy your judgement and professional/technical skills, taking pride in your work and in the collegial atmosphere in the team. 

Analysts at the Commission work across disciplines, blending social research techniques with statistical work in response to business need.  You will ensure that our work is robust and accurate, providing sound, intellectually rigorous advice to internal colleagues and external partners including central Government, the Office for National Statistics, NGOs and academia.   

You will need to fulfil this role in a way that is in keeping with our values of fairness, dignity and respect, and display a high degree of flexibility, accountability and initiative. 

You will:

• Work collaboratively in our multi-disciplinary team, building your knowledge of our work to become a local expert on key areas of equality and human rights evidence
• Deliver analytical projects, from inception to reporting, to support our statutory reporting obligations and our regulatory activity
• Maintain your professional standards, with reference to profession-specific competence frameworks
• Work with Commission 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 analytical function, supporting the adoption of new processes and techniques, including data science techniques such as natural language processing

Person specification

This role requires a combination of analytical expertise with effective communication and time management skills.  You need to be adaptable, and able to pivot quickly and frequently between tasks, and work with a wide variety of professionals to identify and achieve collective goals.   

Experience, Knowledge and Skills required include:

Essential

• Postgraduate level degree in an analytical subject (e.g. economics, statistics, operational research or data science) or with a minimum of 30% analytical/ research content, or undergraduate level degree with significant equivalent experience gained in the workplace.
• Applied knowledge of quantitative and qualitative analysis, including mixed methods approaches, preferably related to the equality and/or human rights agendas or similar fields.
• Experience of delivering complex projects and procuring and managing research services. 
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team of analysts and as part of teams that include non-analytical colleagues, including legal, communications and policy.
• Solid understanding of, and skill in applying, different communication strategies to inform diverse audiences about complex methods.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £42,228, Equality and Human Rights Commission contributes £11,401 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

How to apply

 

Please complete the online application before midnight on the closing date. No applications will be accepted after the closing time. We use an online application system called Applied to receive and process job applications. Applied is fully compliant with data protection legislation and rated highly in terms of accessibility (usable for the majority of candidates with or without disabilities). However, alternative accessible versions of the application form are available upon request – please contact us by email at peoplehelpdesk@equalityhumanrights.com if required.

At application, we will ask you 4-5 questions. Your answers will enable us to assess your suitability for the role and will help us decide whether to invite you to the next stage of the process. Please note however - if there is a high volume of applicants, an initial sift may take place on the essential skill of applied knowledge of quantitative and qualitative analysis, including mixed methods approaches, preferably related to the equality and/or human rights agendas or similar fields. If this takes place this means the recruiting panel will only screen the outlined essential skill question and you may not receive feedback on your full application.

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

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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.