Grade 7 Economist, Grade 7 Operational Researcher, Grade 7 Social Researcher, Grade 7 Statistician

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

- 416332

**Salary**:

- £58,918
- National: £58,918 - £69,720
London: £64,657 - £75,592
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Grade 7

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Type of role**:

- Analytical
Economist
Operational Research
Social Research
Statistics

**Working pattern**:

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

**Number of jobs available**:

- 8

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Pontypridd, Sheffield

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
DWP are recruiting **up to 8 Grade 7 Economists, Social Researchers, Operational Researchers and Statisticians**to fill key posts across a range of policy and business areas over the next six months.

For individuals based in the Treforest or Cardiff locations, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable.
- There is only currently one post available in London. If you specify London as a location we may not be able to offer you a role there. Please only specify an alternative location if you are willing to work from that location.

If you meet the eligibility requirements you should then provide evidence against the Essential Experience Criteria listed in the **Person Specification**section of this job advert.

**Please note that if you are successful at interview, you must be able to start within 3 months of being offered a role.**

**Job description**:
DWP has an excellent reputation for ensuring its work is underpinned by robust evidence and award-winning analysis. Analysts work flexibly, in multi-disciplinary, multi-site teams across the organisation, embedded within policy, operational and wider analytical teams, to develop DWP’s evidence base and provide analysis that supports key decisions underpinning Departmental policies and projects. The wealth of data we have access to is unprecedented and allows us to work in real time, quickly being able to see the outcome of those decisions.

DWP’s Analytical Community (AC) has over 800 analysts made up of Economists, Operational Researchers, Social Researchers, Statisticians, Data Scientists and Data Analysts. Analysts are grouped into 19 Lead Analyst areas, embedded across the Department. Our services are in high demand from ministers, senior leaders and policy and operational stakeholders. The DWP AC is an excellent place to work and being one of the largest in Government we can offer a wide variety of development, training and promotion opportunities, making us a great place to grow as an analyst. Many DWP analytical roles are profession neutral, offering analysts access to a wide range of analytical roles.

Through this campaign, if you are not already a badged member of GES, GORS, GSR or GSG you will become one.**This means that as well as joining the community of analysts in DWP you will join a community of analysts working across many Government departments, agencies and public bodies, playing a pivotal role in Government decision-making.

**Person specification**:
We are looking for applicants who can demonstrate experience against the following **key criteria**:

- Excellent leadership skills, including the ability to set team objectives, engage others, and maximise the value of analysis (Lead Key Criterion).
- An ability to plan and prioritise, manage risk and influence outcomes across a variety of multi-disciplinary and/or multi-site teams.
- Strong communication skills to influence a wide range of stakeholders to inform decision making.
- An ability to build and maintain a network across a range of stakeholders and colleagues to meet customer needs.
- Excellent analytical skills to lead, quality assure and effectively disseminate high quality, complex analysis.
- A role model for learning and development, with experience of building capability.

**Qualifications**:

- Essential Qualifications

A current, permanent, badged member of one of the following four Government analytical professions: Government Economic Service, Government Operational Research Service, Government Statistician Group or Government Social Research Service.

OR

Hold the qualifications to become a badged member of the Government Economic Service, Government Operational Research Service, Government Statistician Group or Government Social Research Service.

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

- Leadership
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £58,918, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £17,068 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

DWP have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

- Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time worki