Statistician

7 months ago


London, United Kingdom Department for Business and Trade Full time

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

- 337870**Salary**:

- £32,858 - £38,272- HEO: National: £32,858-£34,586; London: £36,583-£38,272 plus Analysts Pay Enhancement of £4,245 (or £6,000 with a relevant masters approved by the relevant Head of Profession)- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DBT - DG CMRR - Office for Product Safety & Standards**Type of role**:

- Analytical
- Statistics
- Strategy**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, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**About OPSS**

Do you care about the safety of products and want to protect people and places? Can we use your skills, knowledge and experience to enable UK business to thrive? If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you

We are the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), part of the Department for Business & Trade (Previously the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy). We are here for the purpose of making regulation work to deliver real world impact. Regulation is a powerful Government tool to address market failures, influence behaviour and promote positive action. Crafted and delivered well, regulation can be an enabler of growth, innovation and efficiency.

Since early 2018 we have been building a positive and creative team that enjoys a position of influence and respect within an organisation that continues to grow, most recently with the addition of construction products regulation planned.

Our primary purpose is to protect people and places from product-related harm, ensuring consumers and businesses can buy and sell products with confidence.

**Further information can be found on our website **here**

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. We embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. There is a guaranteed interview scheme (DCS) for people with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

**Job description**:
**About the Role**:
You will report to and work closely with the Grade 7 Principal Statistician on projects, as well as having the opportunity to lead on certain projects to build your leadership, management, and user engagement skills. You will deliver analysis on a variety of established and ad hoc topics, such as product safety, ports and borders enforcement and legal metrology. Ambition, fresh ideas in the development and use of data, and training in statistical and data science techniques are all actively encouraged You will help OPSS become a data-led organisation, investigate new data sources and techniques, and champion the use of robust pipelines to deliver reproducible outputs.
- Working with the G7 in supporting a wide range of high-profile analytical projects.
- Leading on a small number of projects; handling partners and ensuring evidence is efficiently fed into operational policies and reports.
- Assisting in producing analytical output and tools such as interactive dashboards.Training will be made available in this area if required.
- Staying on top of work and developments in areas relevant to our area, by engaging and networking with analysts across DBT and wider.

**We are Inclusive**

The Analysis Team comprises around 26 analysts and provides analytical support for all the Office’s activity. Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) is a growing organisation, and we have recently taken on responsibility for construction products. Now is an exciting time to get involved and join a rapidly growing team to help craft our thinking around using data to develop new insights into product safety. We have a strong commitment to learning and development and are not afraid to try new and innovative approaches.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**

Meet the requirements to be a badged member of the Government Statistical Service, Government Operational Research Service, or Government Social Research.

**Personal Attributes & Skills**

We would love to hear from you if you:

- Enjoy using your analytical skills to solve problems.
- Have good technical skills in appropriate programming languages (for example R, Python, SQL).
- Have experience of working in teams which shape and deliver analytical projects.
- Are comfortable communicating analytical outputs to both technical and non-technical audiences.

**Memberships**:
- a badged member of the Government Statistician Group (GSG), the Government Operational Research Service (GORS), or Government Social Research (GSR); or

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


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