About the job

Job summary

The Cabinet Office’s Equality Data and Analysis Division is seeking to employ a Senior Statistician to develop and deliver an evidence base to support equality policy for the government.

In undertaking this role the post holder will need to work at pace while delivering good quality analysis and products to support decision making.  This will include identifying differences in, for example, people’s employment patterns, pay, and education as well as understanding why those differences exist.  

The role will use coding skills to develop automated methods to share data and briefing with ministers, special advisors, policy officials and key stakeholders inside and outside of the government.

Job description

The Equality Data and Analysis Division (EDAD) requires a Senior Statistician to:

1. Generate and deliver the evidence base needed to support the government that looks across different aspects of people’s circumstances and characteristics  including their sex, gender identity, ethnicity and disability status.
2. Generate and deliver repeatable analytical pipelines to provide ministers, special advisors, policy officials and key external stakeholders with key data.
3. Generate and deliver data and analytical briefings for ministers, special advisors, policy officials and key external stakeholders.
4. Establish the analytical direction for, and deliver, future stages of the Equality Data Asset to improve data linkage and improve the availability of equality data across EDAD.
5. Support the Head of Gender Analysis to develop and deliver the evidence base needed to support gender policy development, implementation and evaluation within the Equality Hub and support officials across government departments to do the same.

In delivering this work the Senior Statistician will work in a team of analysts from a variety of professional backgrounds.  The post holder will also work closely with policy and other officials within the Equality Hub, across Government Departments and externally including academic organisations and others. 

The role will involve a blend of new evidence generation to align with policy interests, original statistical analysis, and designing and managing commissioned work.

It is anticipated that this role will best suit candidates with a background in statistics with strong coding skills in R and/or Python

Person specification

Essential Skills

• Specialist statistical expertise to deliver an evidence base to support government equality policy.
• Knowledge of coding languages (R and/or Python) to undertake analysis and to support data flows across repeatable analytical pipelines.
• Experience of working with a team of analysts from a range of professions to support a broad programme of analytical work.
• Experience of procuring and managing commissioned research or analytical projects.
• Ability to maintain productive stakeholder relationships with ministers, political appointments, cross government policy and analytical officials, external members of government appointed task forces and groups, and academics. 
• Experience of delivering work at pace and to a high standard, often to meet detailed short term requirements.
• Strong communication skills such that complex analytical findings can be easily understood by non-technical audiences and used to develop, deliver or evaluate policy.

 Desirable criteria

• Applicants would ideally be a badged member of the Government Statistical Service Analytical Profession or be willing to be badged if successful.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £40,850, Cabinet Office contributes £11,029 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, Experience and Technical skills.

Application process

The application process requires: 

1.   Examples against the behaviours listed in the advert
2.   A CV and Statement of Suitability
3.   Examples of Technical Skills

Should a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be undertaken using the lead Behaviour, Managing a Quality Service. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.

Selection process

Interviewees will be assessed on a presentation which will focus on technical skills and the behaviours.

Expected timeline (subject to change)

Expected sift date – w/c 5th February
Expected interview date/s – w/c 26th February
Interview location - the interview will take place via Google Meet video conferencing

Reasonable adjustments

If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

Contact Government Recruitment Service via cabinetofficerecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs. 

Complete the ‘Assistance required’ section in the ‘Additional requirements’ page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

Further information

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'contact point for applicants' section.

Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.

Any move to Cabinet Office 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

A reserve list will be held for a period of 12 months, from which further appointments can be made.

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service /Disclosure Scotland on your behalf.

However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email Info@disclosurescotland.co.uk

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment. 

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

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. 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.