About the job

Job summary

This is a joint campaign open to non-badged GSS applicants only. If you are a badged GSS candidate and wish to apply, please apply to 340618

These roles in the Safer and Greener Buildings Analysis division are an exciting opportunity to build the extremely important evidence base of residential buildings and improve its quality by collaborating with other organisations and thinking innovatively about data sources. Your subsequent analysis will then draw conclusions about the buildings and the people living in them to work with Safer and Greener Buildings policy colleagues to design effective policy.  

These posts offer a great opportunity for those looking for experience of analysing and disseminating data and insight in a high-profile area, and working closely with policy and operational teams to make the best decisions through high quality data use. Your analysis and conclusions will be influential and shared frequently with Ministers and Directors.  

The work of the division is fast-paced, as we provide a variety of evidence to our policy and operational colleagues working on current building safety issues. This includes monitoring of the multi-billion pound remediation portfolio with the Responsible Actors Scheme, Building Safety Fund, Aluminium Composite Material Remediation fund, Cladding Safety Scheme and Social Housing Scheme. SGBA also has a future looking role to design a new building safety system and you’ll need to make sure our data and evidence are future-proof and fit for the purpose of the new Building Safety Regulator. 

One third of emissions are from buildings, and the Net Zero Housing Analysis Team work to support policy developments in this crucial area, through monitoring and evaluating our current policies for new buildings and how we measure energy efficiency of homes, using multiple data sources including the multi-million entry database of energy performance statistics.

The division aims to respond rapidly to Secretary of State and Safer and Greener Buildings policy steers and priorities, and projects will be prioritised based on those

Job description

The roles:

Industry negotiations analyst

The main responsibilities for this post are:

• Building an extremely important evidence base of residential buildings caught by the Responsible Actors Scheme contract and in the social housing sector, ensuring its quality by collaborating with other organisations and thinking innovatively about data sources.

• Using traditional data collection techniques e.g., surveys, as well as existing data sources to gain information from developers and other organisations.

• Cleansing and analysing large datasets using analytical software packages (Excel, R, SQL). There will be opportunities to add value and understanding to data using innovative data matching and data visualisation e.g., dashboards.

• Collaborating with statisticians working on other government led remediation schemes to understand overlaps in the data, and working with economists to produce forecasts on the future of remediation and costs to government.

• Disseminating statistics and working with policy and operational colleagues to design the best policies and processes in the area of building safety.  

Remediation monitoring analyst

The main responsibilities for this post are: 

• Maintain and update our SQL database for the multi-billion pound Building Safety Fund programmes – ensuring the data pipelines from a variety of sources are received to the quality required.

• Run R code to refresh our Building Safety Fund Power BI dashboard and publish it. • Develop the BSF dashboard in consultation with policy colleagues, operations colleagues and contractors who use it.

• Build flexible reports and run ad-hoc analysis to report on progress of buildings undergoing remediation work via government funding programmes.

• Conduct deep dive analysis as required to answer new questions, particularly around evidence to make policy and operational decisions.

• Contribute to the department’s external reporting in the form of statistical releases. 

Medium rise residential buildings analyst

The main responsibilities for this post are: 

• Build the evidence base of medium-rise residential buildings – thinking innovatively about where building level information can be obtained, while also using traditional collection methods.

• Working with external contractors who are using image recognition data science techniques to identify the medium-rise building stock.

• Analysing administrative data sources to answer key questions about the characteristics of medium-rise residential buildings and the people living in them, identifying gaps and building the evidence base.

Remediation policy analyst

The main responsibilities for this post are: 

• Conduct analysis and produce reports using data from multiple schemes to support policy and operational decisions.

• Conduct analysis on the data the department holds on FRAEWs, working with Homes England to gain a bigger picture view on all the FRAEW data held. Produce a regular report/dashboard summarising the data for all schemes, allowing policy and operational teams to make evidence based decisions and evaluate the effectiveness of the proportionate approach.

• Conduct analysis of Local Authorities enforcement action taken and provide policy and operational teams with the evidence they need to work with Local Authorities to target the appropriate buildings. Support policy with data for the quarterly Ministerial report on New Burdens Funding.

• Analyse and disseminate the key insights from a wide variety of data sources, including commercial data shared with DLUHC by mortgage lenders, from remediation schemes, and from other government departments and arm’s length bodies.

Net Zero analyst

The main responsibilities for this post are: 

• Lead on the production of new policy focused analysis and monitoring products using Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) open data for Part L Energy Efficiency regulations for net zero homes.

• Work cross-profession

Person specification

• Statistical skills: You will have experience of statistical methods and applying them in a policy context. The teams use a range of packages, most notably SQL, Power BI, R, and Python; experience with these or the ability to learn quickly will be essential

• Analytical skills: Experience of working with policy colleagues to refine and define analytical questions, and communicate these with impact.

• Stakeholder engagement: Extensive experience of working with others to define and deliver tasks to inform policy or business objectives, building strong relationships to ensure analysis has a strong and wide impact.

• Communication: Comfortable communicating data and statistics and their caveats and limitations to analytical and non-analytical audiences (policy officials and external stakeholders) verbally and in writing.

• Project management: Responsible for delivering projects independently and through others, ensuring outputs meet the customer’s needs. Delivering at pace and to tight deadlines, whilst ensuring the quality of your work.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £41,679, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £11,253 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

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 

 

DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.  

 

Our application system is designed to remove as much bias as possible from the recruitment system – this means that a hiring manager does not know your name, your details, see your whole application in one go (or have your CV at review stage unless stated otherwise).  

 

Your answers are randomised and chunked up. This means that each assessor views sets of responses to questions for example all candidates’ responses to ‘Seeing the Big Picture’ rather than seeing a candidate’s full application. The science behind this is that recruitment can be subject to ordering and fatigue effects and we want to reduce this as much as possible.  

 

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

 

When writing your application, remember: 

• The assessor won’t be reading your answers sequentially.  
• Do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.  
• If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on!) 

 

At sift, we will be assessing 

Technical 1 (lead criteria) - Please can you give an example of when you have demonstrated the following statistical professional competence as defined by the GSG competency framework. (Please refer to the Guide for Analytical Candidates for further information on what is required here.)

- Data analysis 

Technical 2- Please can you give an example of when you have demonstrated the following statistical professional competence as defined by the GSG competency framework. (Please refer to the Guide for Analytical Candidates for further information on what is required here.)

- Acquiring data/Understanding customer needs

Behaviour 1 - Working Together 

 

Behaviour 2 - Delivering at Pace 

 

There is a 250 word limit per question. 

 

In the event that we receive a large number of applications, we may conduct an initial sift using the lead behaviour listed in the advert. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progress straight to assessment/interview  

The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of the following success profiles elements:    

Behaviour – Working Together, Delivering at Pace 

Technical - Acquiring Data and Understanding Customer Needs, Data Analysis, and Presenting and Disseminating Data Effectively

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

Candidates invited to interview will be expected to complete an oral briefing exercise as part of the interview process.  The oral-briefing exercise is designed to simulate aspects of the job to be performed and provide a second basis for assessing the behaviours and competencies required in the job. 

 

The oral briefing is usually part of the professional requirements as government analytical professions require an oral briefing as part of the entry or promotion process.  The briefing will take one of the following forms: 

 

1.  A prepared on the day presentation to the interview panel which will be followed by questions from the panel.  You will be provided with all the information to use for your presentation on the day of your interview.  You will be given up to 45 minutes to read this information and prepare your presentation. 

OR 

1.  You will be provided with a question in advance of the interview and asked to prepare a presentation of a specific length addressing this question.  This presentation will be followed by questions from the panel. 

 

Candidates invited to interview will be given full instructions on the presentation being used. 

 

The presentation will be followed by a 45 minute competency based interview. 

 

Candidates who are not members of a government analytical profession may also need to pass an entry test for their profession as part of the selection process. 

 

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

 

Behaviours: (Working Together, Delivering at Pace)  

Technical: (Yes) 

Strengths: (Yes) 

How to apply: 

Step 1- Complete your personal details on CS Jobs 

Step 2 - Complete the Government Statistical Service test by 12:00pm on 27/02/24

When you are invited to complete the online tests you will be given access to guidance. It is strongly recommended that you read this guidance before you proceed.  

Step 3 - If successful, we will send you a link to complete your application by providing your behaviour examples on Be Applied by 23:55 pm on 03/03/24. 

Please note these links are not automated and so may take a couple of days to come through and may be delivered to your junk or spam folders. 

Step 4 - We will sift your application and if successful, we will invite you to attend interview.  

We do not consider direct CV applications to our Recruitment mailbox – 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. 

For this analyst role in DLUHC you must be affiliated to a Government analytical profession.  This is: 

• Government Statistical Service (GSS) 

 

 

Stage 1: Filter and eligibility questions, entry tests 

Candidates who successfully pass the initial filter and eligibility questions will be asked to confirm which of the analytical professions they belong to or are applying to be part of.  This information will be used to progress successful applications to the appropriate professional checks element of the process.  

  

Existing civil servants who are currently a member of one of these professions will retain their professional membership in this role.  Applicants on promotion will be assessed for promotion within their profession as part of the selection process.  Please make any current affiliation clear in your application.  

  

External candidates or civil servants without a current profession affiliation may be considered for accreditation to one of the professions as part of the recruitment process.  If you are not currently a member of a government analytical profession you will be put through the membership process for your chosen profession as part of this application.  You must pass the membership process for your application to be successful.  If you do not pass the relevant profession entry test your application will not be taken further.  See the Guide for Analytical Candidates document for more details of the membership process for the relevant profession.  

  

You will need to address the technical competences for your profession in the application and at interview. 

  

Please refer to the Guide for Analytical Candidates which provides: 

1 - The technical competences for each analytical profession – GSS. 

2 - details of the entry requirements to each analytical profession 

3 – details of the entry process for each analytical profession 

Entry Qualifications  

The entry qualifications are listed below.  Please list FULL details of your degree in your application form. 

Government Statistical Service (GSS): 

a first or second class honours degree in a numerate subject (2:1 minimum for Assistant Statistician and 2:2 minimum for Statistical Officer) containing at least 25% taught statistical content (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Sciences, Business Studies, Psychology, Geography or similar) 

or 

a higher degree, e.g. a MSc or PhD, in a subject containing formal statistical training (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Sciences, Business Studies, Psychology, Geography or similar) 

or 

have worked in a statistical or data science field and are able to demonstrate Continuous Professional Development (via a log book) in statistics or data science at the same level as a foundation degree or Higher National Diploma (level five) 

or 

have achieved or are on track to achieve a level four apprenticeship including at least two years in a statistical or data analysis field in government and are able to demonstrate Continuous Professional Development in statistics or data analysis (via a log book signed off by a manager or mentor who are members of the statistical profession) 

Statistician candidates (entry test) : 

Candidates who ARE NOT members of the Government Statistical Service (GSS) will be invited to sit the Government Statistical Services Test.  This is the first part of the GSS membership process and you must pass this test for your application to progress to the next stage of the recruitment process.  

 

The deadline for completing the GSS online test is 12:00 on 27/02/24

 

The deadline for completing your application form is 23:55 on 3/3/24

Competencies 

You will need to address the technical competences for your profession in the application and at interview. 

Professional technical competences are listed below: 

 

Statistics competences 

Statistics: Acquiring data/Understanding customer needs 

Statistics: Data analysis 

Statistics: Presenting and disseminating data effectively 

SEO salary 

• The salary for this role is £45,813 (London) or £41,679 (National). 
• For existing civil servants, the usual policy on level transfer and promotion will apply and is non-negotiable. 

 
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. 

  

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION: 

• London 
• Wolverhampton
• Darlington* 
• Leeds

 

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 (DEC) 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. This role is based at DLUHC and we will be joined on the campus by: 

• HM Treasury  

• Department for International Trade 
• Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy  
• Office for National Statistics  
• Department for Education 

 

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 04/03/24  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). Thank you. 
 
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. 

Candidate Pack Information 

Please see attached Candidate pack for further information. 

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 

 

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

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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.