Senior Analyst - The Guardian : Job Details

Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity to be instrumental in the success of priority growth programmes, supplying the analytical insights required to make decisions on all parts of growth policy? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

About the Team

As announced by the Chancellor on 8th July 2024, HMT has established a Growth Delivery Unit. This has been established as a new and dedicated team in SPB, working closely with EGU (in particular) focussed on supporting and driving delivery of the Chancellor’s top priorities on growth. The GDU supports HMT’s broader aim for an increased culture and focus on delivery and implementation of policy, as well as the Chancellor’s leadership of the growth mission.

To this end, the GDU will monitor progress against the Chancellor’s top growth priorities, identify blockages and intervene/escalate where barriers to delivery of the growth mission need to be unblocked. Sitting within the Strategy, Planning and Budget group in HMT, the GDU is a high-profile team at the centre of the government's growth agenda. 

About the Job

In this role, you will:

• Develop innovative, clear and engaging products to communicate data and analysis.
• Apply advanced analytical techniques to extract delivery-relevant insight from data.
• Build strong relationships with analytical and policy colleagues across HMT and OGDs to enable sharing of data and analysis (building single version of the truth). 
• Present evidence to senior civil servants, special advisors and ministers.
• Inspire the people who make decisions and drive delivery of essential public services to use data.

You will:

• Work closely with colleagues in HMT and across government collect data, conduct high quality analysis, create engaging visualisations and develop insights, all to inform critical decision making. Our customers include senior ministers, the Chancellor and Civil Service leaders.
• Contribute to the cross-government analytical community, engaging with a range of partners to champion the value of analysis for delivery.

About You

The successful candidate will have excellent communication and networking skills with the ability to translate complex information into meaningful, easily understood narrative for non-analytical audiences. You will have the ability to work at pace in a complex multi-stakeholder environment, driving progress in the face of a range of competing views and priorities. You’ll have experience in developing and communicating analytical to further organisational goals (ideally in a public service setting) including through creative visualisation. Lastly you will have excellent analytical thinking skills, including experience conducting quantitative analyses and communicating their results to senior non-technical audiences.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28.97%
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at .uk