Senior Economics Officer

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

- 387625

**Salary**:

- £42,382 - £45,920
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- CO - Government People Group (GPG)

**Type of role**:

- Analytical
Economist

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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Location
- Bristol, South West England, BS2 0PS : Glasgow, Scotland, G2 8HS : Salford, North West England, M3 5DS : York, Yorkshire and the Humber, YO1 7PX

About the job

**Job summary**:
The Government People Group exists to work with departments, professions, and functions to build a modern, effective Civil Service.

We support the government workforce with the right skills and capability. We are working with leaders to get the right people in the right jobs, with the right skills and continuous learning to excel in their roles.

We provide leadership, and in turn, create leaders with exceptional line management capability across departments, influencing partners in the wider public sector and beyond. This involves getting our retention and reward strategy right, to nurture specific skills, and create pride and resilience in our workforce.

Our role is also to provide system leadership across central government in pulling together back office services. Collectively, we help support the Cabinet Office’s priority to drive efficiencies, and reforms that will make government work better, to ultimately provide a better service to the public.

Within the GPG, Government Skills was set up in 2020 to drive up capability across Government in an evidence-based and impact-led way. Government Skills ensures all civil servants, from entry to most senior leadership, have the core and specialist knowledge, skills and networks they need to deliver great public services and address complex systemic challenges, now and in the future. This work is central to the Public Sector Reform and Efficiency policy area, and supports Mission Delivery by ensuring the workforce has the capability and learning culture to deliver against the Government’s missions.

The Evidence and Impact team within Government Skills is responsible for ensuring that hundreds of millions of pounds of annual spend on developing the skills, knowledge and relationships of the Government workforce is evidence-based and impact-led. We use a combination of analytical methods covering monitoring/data analytics, social research, evaluation, statistics, behavioural and user research, and economic analysis to provide robust, purposeful insights to inform business decisions. Our evidence supports the creation of effective policy and strategy on the future skills needs of the government and wider public sector workforce, and supports effective design, commissioning and delivery of the interventions required to achieve this. The team has a reputation as a centre of expertise supporting the whole of government on these issues, and is expanding as part of plans for the next spending review period 2025-26.

**Job description**:
As Senior Economic Analyst you will lead on economic analysis and economic evaluation across Government Skills to understand the relationship between workforce skills, capability-building investments and critical outcomes including performance, productivity and mission delivery across government and the wider public sector. This will include developing models of economic evaluation which can drive greater impact (including performance, efficiency and productivity) and overall value from the significant investment made in workforce capability. Due to the implementation of Mission Delivery, and the current Spending Review, this is an exciting time to ensure that Government Skills is informed by a strong foundation of evidence and evaluation.

You will need an understanding of where Economic methods and insights can add value to policy and delivery decisions, and also what their limitations are, and working in collaboration with other analysts from a range of professions, and policy and delivery professionals, to deliver the best analysis and outcomes.

You will develop economic models to inform business cases, and as part of this, you will support the development of business cases, including conducting options appraisals, quantitative and qualitative value-for-money analysis and wider impact analysis across a range of projects, to ensure senior leaders are aware of all available options and related evidence, and help inform recommendations on the preferred way forward.

There are a wide range of analytical projects you may become involved with, being responsive to the priorities of the directorate and our wider stakeholders. This is likely to include producing modelling to support the appraisal of different options for future operating models for de