Poverty and Living Standards Senior Analyst

About the Team Are you an analyst with outstanding critical thinking and leadership skills to craft strategy? If so, we’d love to hear from you The Labour Markets and Distributional Analysis (LMDA) team is a friendly team of outstanding analysts and policy makers. We seek to bring together an understanding of households’ living standards and their position in the labour market, with key labour market policies such as the National Living Wage and DWP active labour market programmes. Our part of the team – the Equalities & Living Standards Analysis (ELSA) branch – is made up of six analysts. We seek to improve our understanding of policy impacts on different groups in society, supporting policy development across HMT by leading on poverty, cost‑of‑living, general living standards‑related analysis as well as equalities and disparities analysis. We work jointly with the Distributional Analysis branch, made up of around seven analysts, who advise Ministers on how tax and spending decisions impact households. We also work closely with Macroeconomic Coordination & Strategy in the Economics Group on the Cost of Living, and with the Equalities Policy Branch in the Public Spending Group on equalities analysis. The post holder will contribute to the Darlington office expansion, working closely with team members also based in Darlington, including one of the Directors of the Personal Tax, Welfare and Pensions group. About the Job Expand your team’s analytical capability producing HMT’s poverty analysis.Brief seniors/ministers on living standards: provide ministers with evidence on living standards indicators beyond real household disposable income. Develop the living standards narrative: lead HMT Living Standards briefing, communicating evidence on living standards to relevant teams in the department and supporting fiscal events as required. Influence policy: lead ad‑hoc analytical projects on different areas of policy, ensuring that advice on living standards, distributional impacts and equalities considerations are fed into policy development and ministerial advice. Lead external engagement: lead on relevant debates, Freedom of Information requests, correspondence and parliamentary questions relating to living standards to answer the public questions on the topic. Build strong relationships: build positive relationships across Treasury, other departments and beyond to ensure our evidence and analysis is up‑to‑date and relevant to policy development. About You A working knowledge of R or a similar software is essential for this role. You will be able to analyse data and communicate analysis with impact, motivate and engage others in delivering a shared vision, proactively lead the analytical planning and vision of your branch and champion the team’s analysis across the department to maximise impact. You value difference, diversity and inclusion, ensuring fairness and opportunity for all. You communicate complex analysis powerfully to senior, non‑technical customers and build effective partnerships and relationships with a range of customers within the department and beyond to achieve tangible outcomes. 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 hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk. #J-18808-Ljbffr