Head of Insight and Evaluation

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

- 241532**Salary**:

- £48,197**Grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Communications**Type of role**:

- Communications / Marketing**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share**Number of posts**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Summary**:

- This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and motivated insight professional to join the Communications team at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.**Job description**:
Our remit covers many of the government’s high-profile priorities. Whether that’s levelling up the country, helping more people get onto the housing ladder, housing families displaced by the conflict in Ukraine or ending rough sleeping for good - we’re on the lookout for talented and confident professionals to help us make a difference and improve people’s lives.

Your job will be to lead our communications insight team, produce intelligence and measure the impact of our work using communications metrics, plus upskill the wider team to evaluate their campaigns.

You might find yourself using focus groups to understand local communities’ priorities; surveys to measure campaign advert re-call; or social media analytic tools to understand the public’s reactions to our announcements.

This is a rich and rewarding role which provides the opportunity to work with a diverse range of stakeholders across the UK - and Ministers and senior officials across government and overseas.

Your will join our senior management team and lead a small team.

There are excellent training and career opportunities in the Government Communication Service and across the Civil Service.

**Responsibilities**:
Produce insight, research and evaluation to inform our communications and make sure we reach our audiences at the right time with messages that will have an impact;

Monitor and evaluate communication activity and produce high quality and timely reports, including advising Ministers and Senior Officials.

Commission and manage agencies, their products and services, and project budgets.

Represent the communications team at cross government networks - and externally with the insight profession and sector partners.

Lead, manage and develop a small team, ensuring projects are properly resourced and delivered on time and to a high standard.

Empower, motivate and inspire the insight team to deliver great work, taking responsibility for performance and development.

Upskill the wider team in evaluating campaigns and media strategies through workshops and other learning experiences.

Play an active part in the Senior Management Team, role modelling excellent leadership behaviours, and deputising for the Deputy Director.

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

- Making Effective Decisions
- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
- Developing Self and Others

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.**We are for everyone**

**We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.**

We are for everyone

**At sift, through your CV and covering letter we will be assessing**:
Experience

Technical

**Your covering letter should be no more than 1 page referencing how you meet the criteria set out in the job description.**

In full the campaign will test the below Success Profile Elements:
Experience: Yes - Experience questions will be based around the essential skills and criteria as listed in the job description

Technical: Yes - Technical questions will be based around the essential skills and criteria as listed in the job description.

Strength: Yes

Behaviours: Making Effective Decisions, Leadership, Communicating and Influencing, Developing Self and Others

Ability: Yes

**BENEFITS**

**GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION**

Wolverhampton

Manchester

Leeds

Bristol

Cambridge

Nottingham

**SIFT AND INTERVIEW DATES**

**RESERVE LIST**

**Grade 7 salary**
- ** The salary for this role is £48,197 (National).**:
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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the ri