Senior Statistical Officer

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

- 424866

**Salary**:

- £45,954 - £53,265
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- HSE - Science Division (SD)

**Type of role**:

- Statistics

**Working pattern**:

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

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

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

**Location**:

- Bootle, Buxton

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
As a Senior Statistical Officer you will provide operational statistical support across HSE, with a particular focus initially on the Building Safety Division (BSD). Your work will help ensure HSE continues to protect people by preventing death, injury and ill health in Great Britain’s workplaces, while supporting the day-to-day delivery of BSD’s objectives.

You will be part of an analytical team working alongside health and safety and building safety specialists, producing clear and reliable evidence to support effective decision-making. You will also help maintain good practice in line with the principles of the Statistics Code of Practice.

The role involves responsibility for important aspects of statistical production, including managing data sources, producing high-quality outputs, and supporting colleagues — both analysts and non-analysts — in making appropriate use of evidence. You will be encouraged to further develop your own technical skills through training and experience, while contributing to a supportive and inclusive team environment.

Please note: Part-time working hours are available for this role. We can accept part-time applicants who can commit to working a minimum of 30 hours per week.

**Travel**

Occasional travel to our Bootle office will be required for monthly team meetings.

**Job description**:
**Key responsibilities**

You will work on a breadth of projects which will require you to;
- Create new data solutions/collections through the manipulation of multiple data sources, to better meet customer needs
- Proactively engage early and often with the customer to share analytical results, and to discuss findings, taking data limitations into account
- Influence the debate and the decision-making process to ensure that robust data collection is facilitated
- Use the most appropriate methods and tools to use to deliver analysis, confidently adapting their approach as required to effectively manipulate a variety of data sources
- Take responsibility for the delivery of high quality statistical advice and analysis
- Build the capability of others by sharing knowledge about data sources, data manipulation and appropriate innovations within own team or across business area

**Person specification**:
**Essential Skills & Criteria**
- Proven leadership capability and experience to overcome challenges alongside managing a team and prioritising tasks in line with organisational aspirations
- Experience of managing the delivery of complex projects and delivering quality outcomes to meet customer demands
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate complex analysis to non-specialists and contribute effectively to discussions with ministers, senior officials and external stakeholders
- Ability to deliver high impact analysis to tight deadlines, using forward planning to identify risks and issues

**Qualifications**

To be eligible for this role you should have:

- a first

**Apprenticeships**
- have achieved a Level 6 Data Scientist Degree Apprenticeship

OR
- have achieved a Level 4 Data Analytics apprenticeship and are able to demonstrate Continuous Professional Development via a logbook that has been signed off by an existing member of the GSG profession in the role of manager or mentor, covering 2 years in a statistical/data analysis field in government.

**Experience route**
- have worked in a statistical or data science field and are able to demonstrate Continuous Professional Development (via a logbook) covering a minimum of two years. You will need to evidence how you applied statistics or data science at the same level as a foundation degree or HND (level five) and demonstrates the expected skills as outlined in the GSG Competency framework.

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

- Delivering at Pace
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Leadership

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

- Presenting and Disseminating Data Effectively
- Acquiring Data/Understanding Customer Needs
- Data Analysis

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £45,954, Health and Safety Executive contributes £13,312 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
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