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Senior Rail Modeller

Job details
Posting date:	08 May 2024
Salary:	£51,997 per year
Additional salary information:	National Minimum: £51,997 - London Minimum: £56,844
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	31 May 2024
Location:	London
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	350826/3

Summary

We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Are you analytical and looking for an opportunity to apply your skills and knowledge to influence Government policy?

Do you want to use analysis to help make the transport system better for everyone?

Are you interested in using transport modelling to inform key rail decisions and supporting wider rail industry objectives?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

The post will be situated within the Rail Modelling team part of the wider Rail Analysis, a multidisciplinary division, providing economic analysis, statistics, and modelling to inform government priorities and decisions relating to the UK rail sector. We work closely with both analytical, policy and project teams across the Department and with external consumer and industry stakeholders including Network Rail, Rail Safety and Standards Board, Rail Delivery Group, Office of Road and Rail, and the Great British Railways Transformation Team.

Our work spans across a diverse portfolio that includes creating new modelling tools to inform key policy decisions; modelling timetable changes and informing investment appraisal as well as quality assuring analysis and developing economic appraisal techniques that underpin policy-making. We work with industry partners to find new sources of data and develop techniques to make use of these datasets via programming and visualisation.

As Senior Rail Modeller you will be working as an analyst within our skilled Rail Modelling team. Your role will be varied, interesting and challenging and will require both technical modelling skills, but also clear communication and influencing skills. You will have the opportunity to apply your modelling experience work to influence and support key decisions.

Responsibilities

Will include but not limited to:

Leading modelling projects to support rail policy. This includes understanding and using key rail models, and effectively communicating the outcomes of these projects to range of non-technical audiences.
Developing and updating analytical tools able to input into business cases, and provide insight into a range of policy decisions.
Leading and managing research projects to build the rail modelling evidence base. You will need to ensure that these projects are carried out to high and rigorous standards and the outputs can be used by the department to improve forecasting and/or update guidance.
Potential to directly line-managing a junior modeller and/or manage them on projects. You will need to set a good example and set and maintain professional standards. You will also need to support their learning and development, as well as managing their work.
Setting and maintaining high standards of quality assurance and for your team and their products, and developing tools and processes to support this.

For full details see role profile.

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