Higher Economics Officer

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

- 411436

**Salary**:

- £36,728 - £43,834
- National: £36,728 - £40,670
London: £39,684 - £43,834
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- CO - Government People Group (GPG)

**Type of role**:

- Analytical
Economist

**Working pattern**:

- Full-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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**Location**:

- Bristol, South West England, BS2 0EL : Glasgow, Scotland, G2 8HS : Manchester, North West England, M2 3AA : City of Westminster, London (region), SW1A 2HQ : 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 ofthe 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 ofthe 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 Higher Economic Analyst you will support 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 supporting the development of 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 work with other economists within the business area and partner teams to develop an understanding of where economic methods and insights can add value to policy decisions, and also what their limitations are to deliver the best analysis and outcomes.

You will support economic analysis to inform and develop business cases, and as part of this support on 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.

You will work closely with other economists, social researchers and statisticians in the Evidence and Impact (E&I) team as well as building relationships across the wider Government Skills Directorate and with selected cross-government stakeholders.

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