Higher Statistical Officer

5 months ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Department for Transport Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 358572**Salary**:

- £32,603**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Public Transport Local Group - Local Transport Directorate**Type of role**:

- Analytical**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birmingham, LeedsAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Do you have superb analytical skills?
- Are you passionate about producing statistics?
- Can you engage with stakeholders at all levels to achieve effective results?
- If so, we would love to hear from you**Job description**:
The Department has an exciting opportunity to work in local transport statistics. Local transport covers a wide range of modes that are used daily, by millions of people.

This role sits within the Local Transport Statistics team. We work on a range of statistics including light rail, taxis, disability, and accessibility. As a Higher Statistical Officer, you will use your data and statistical skills to collect, validate, analyse and publish data. You will work collaboratively with colleagues within your own team, analysts and policy teams across the Department, and with external stakeholders including local authorities. This will require you to confidently engage and communicate analysis to both technical and non-technical audiences.

This is a rewarding and interesting position that offers a fantastic development opportunity and chance to be involved in a wide variety of policy areas.

**Responsibilities**

**_ Your key duties and responsibilities will include but not limited to:_**
- Leading on the production of one or more statistical releases, managing all elements from collection of data right through to publication.
- Working proactively with policy colleagues and other analysts to define their statistical needs and how they can be met.
- Embracing the use of coding languages (particularly R) and Github to build on teams existing code and improve the way we carry out our analysis
- Acting as technical lead in projects across data visualisation, process automation, analytical pipelining, and improving code structure and standardisation

Please see role profile for full details.

**Person specification**:
**About you**

To be successful in this role, you will be an enthusiastic, self-starter who enjoys proactively taking the initiative to find solutions to problems and have a high attention to detail. You are a self-motivated and ambitious individual who is comfortable working independently and keen to develop and build knowledge.

You have excellent communication skills and can tailor your style to suit your audience, and ability to explain complex information to others so it is clear to understand. With excellent collaborative skills, you will confidently engage to build constructive relationships within your own, other analytical teams, a broad range of policy makers and leaders across the Department.

You can work autonomously effectively, being able to manage your time and prioritise your workload to ensure deadlines are met.

**Additional information**

You will have the option to be based in our Leeds or Birmingham office attracting the National salary. Occasional travel to our London office will be required for key meetings and team events.

A minimum **60%** of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.

**Qualifications**:

- If you are not a current member of the Government Statistical Service and are successful in this recruitment campaign, you will be required to complete a statistical test whilst in post if you are successful. We will provide you with the support and training you need to support you with completing this test whilst in post.
- Eligibility can be demonstrated through one of the following:- Have achieved or on track to achieve a level 4 apprenticeship including at least 2 years in a statistical/data analysis field in government and are able to demonstrate continuous professional development in statistics/data analysis

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Changing and Improving
- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together
- Changing and Improving

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- **Data Analysis**

**Benefits**:
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.

Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport.

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