Senior Analyst - Distributional and Equalities Analysis

Are you an experienced analyst who wants to shape how evidence is used in government decisions? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

About the Team

The Labour Markets and Distributional Analysis team is a friendly team of around 30 outstanding analysts and policy makers located across London and Darlington offices. We seek to bring together an understanding and advise on policy development related to households' living standards, distributional analysis across different financial and demographic characteristics, and labour market outcomes. The work is at the centre of the government's priorities to boost growth and overcome obstacles to opportunity.

We analyse how tax, welfare and public service spending decisions affect households, and how those impacts differ across income groups, household types and people with protected characteristics. We use this evidence to advise Ministers and senior officials across a wide range of high-profile policy areas.

Whilst our approach on tax and welfare closely mirrors respected think tanks such as the Institute for Fiscal Studies, we also model the impacts of public services, such as NHS, schools and social care spending. This broader approach means we can consider a much wider range of policies that provide support to the poorest and most vulnerable families. Alongside this, we lead HMT's analytical approach to equalities, helping to ensure that emerging policies are assessed for their impacts on different groups and that equalities considerations are grounded in robust evidence.

We play a central role in Budgets and Spending Reviews, assessing the combined impact of policy packages and publishing our findings in Treasury's Impact on Households publication.

About the Job

Key responsibilities:

1. Lead analyst for public service spending distributional analysis:

• Overarching responsibility for HMT's public service spending distributional analysis, ensuring it effectively informs fiscal events and wider policy development.
• Own, maintain and develop the model used to assess the distributional impact of public service spending across households.
• Design, oversee and quality assure analysis and advice for senior officials and Ministers, ensuring it is robust, delivered at pace when required and clearly communicated.

2. Lead analyst for equalities analysis:

• Overarching responsibility for equalities analysis within HMT. Working closely with the Equalities Policy branch in HMT and with equalities analysts across government.
• Design and improve tools, guidance and processes that help policy teams meet their equalities duties.
• Identify gaps and opportunities to enhance how equalities are considered in fiscal and policy decisions.

3. Influence decisions through communication and relationships:

• Present complex analysis clearly and persuasively to senior officials, Ministers and external partners, drawing out key messages, trade offs and uncertainties.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with policy, strategy and analytical teams across HMT and other departments, acting as a visible analytical leader and championing the use of high quality evidence in decision making.

4. Innovate and work flexibly across the branch:

• Work flexibly and collaboratively across the branch's varied portfolio, contributing to priority projects and supporting colleagues during peak periods such as Budgets and Spending Reviews, and delivering high quality analysis at pace and to tight deadlines.
• Explore and apply new techniques, platforms and data sources to enhance modelling capability, and design bespoke analysis or new models in response to emerging policy questions.

5. Lead and develop junior analysts, and contribute to branch and team leadership:

• Line manage two (HEO) analysts, providing clear expectations, constructive feedback and support for their development, and fostering a positive, inclusive team culture.
• Contribute to wider branch leadership, including helping to set priorities, support resource planning and shape ways of working.

About You

The successful candidate will:

Technical (lead criterion):

• Experience in delivering robust quantitative analysis that influences decision making.

Please provide evidence of your ability to produce quantitative analysis, including action you took to ensure it was policy relevant, and steps taken to ensure it was robust.

• Leadership: Sets clear direction, champions the use of evidence, and thinks strategically across a broad brief to focus work where it adds most value.
• Making effective decisions: Demonstrated ability to structure complex questions, identify key issues and develop robust approaches where precedent or data is limited, supporting sound, evidence based decisions at senior and Ministerial level.
• Communicating and Influencing: Evidence of ability to explain complex ideas to senior colleagues/Ministers, in a way that is easy to understand and persuasively impact policy decisions.

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.

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