Gors Analytical 1-year Sandwich Placement or Summer

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

- 272369**Salary**:

- £19,340 - £28,412- National: £19,340 - £25,324, London: £23,166 - £28,412**Job grade**:

- Administrative Officer- GORS Student Placement**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term**Length of employment**:

- 1-Year: 11 to 13 months; Summer 10 to 12 weeks**Business area**:

- GORS - Government Operational Research Service, analysis, analytical support, evidence-based policy, scenario modelling, problem structuring/solving**Type of role**:

- Analytical
- Operational Research
- Science
- Statistics**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 62Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Darlington, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hastings, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Pontypridd, Salford, Sheffield, Westminster, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Year-long placement opportunities are available at: Home Office, Valuations Office Agency, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, HM Revenue & Customs, Department for Transport, Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Cabinet Office, Department of Health and Social Care.

In the following locations:
Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Darlington, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hastings, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Salford, Sheffield, Treforest (Pontypridd), Westminster, Wolverhampton and York.

Summer placement opportunities are available at: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Department for Transport, Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

In the following locations:
Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Salford, Sheffield, Treforest (Pontypridd), Westminster and Wolverhampton.

You will have the opportunity to learn skills required for professional life whilst working for organisations ranked in the top 10 graduate employers in the country as rated by graduates.

You must be studying a highly numerate degree and expecting to achieve a 2:1 or above. You must be in at least your second year of study and must be returning to university after completing your placement, for either your current degree or a masters.

Please select more than one location while expressing your location preference, this will allow us to allocate you the next preferred location, in case your first preferred location has been fully occupied

**Job description**:
The Government Operational Research Service (GORS) are the analytical minds behind many of the Government’s policies. Policies which, when implemented, affect everybody in the UK - including you. By looking closely at complex systems, and developing models that predict the way they behave, our analysts can bring a new perspective to the way problems are tackled.

**Person specification**:
Our analytical teams cover a broad range of remits, including dealing with resource allocation, workforce planning, forecasting, performance measurement, and strategic planning.

Previous student projects have included:

- Informing impact assessments to provide balanced and objective views of the costs and benefits of policies
- Designing a pilot study to test the impact of a new policy to increase the likelihood of unemployed people entering work
- Analysing the impact of customer behaviour to identify different types of customers we interact with
- Forecasting migration routes into the UK
- Working on analysis to achieve world class education from early years through to adulthood
- Modelling benefit fraud

Being highly numerate is only the starting point for our student analysts. We expect you to build on your technical skills and work towards successfully influencing policy decisions by presenting your analyses effectively in meetings, written reports, and oral presentations.

**Qualifications**:
- Modules that we do not consider highly numerate include Accounting, Business, Computer Science, Economics, Finance, Geography, IT, Psychology and Sociology. This list is not exhaustive**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together

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

- Knowledge and Application of OR Skills and Techniques
- Achieving Impact with Analysis

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- 23-25 Annual leave days

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.Before the interview begins, you will be asked to prepare and deliver a five-minute presentation to