Competition and Consumer Policy Analyst
| Posting date: | 26 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £53,560 to £63,481 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £53,560 - £60,118 London: £57,026 - £63,481 Plus Analytical allowance |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 July 2024 |
| Location: | Darlington |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 356900/4 |
Summary
The Directorate has four teams: Competition Policy; Consumer Policy, Subsidy Control; and Analysis, Corporate Support and Digital Markets, where this role sits.
The Analysis team consists of c.10 analysts, leading the Directorate’s research, appraisal and evaluation work and ensuring the analytical underpinning of all the Directorate’s work is robust. We work with policy teams to provide interesting, varied and insightful analysis to support competition policy, consumer policy and subsidy control. Analysis supports all stages of policy development from early problem identification to options assessment and policy evaluation.
The team works closely with other areas of DBT including the Central Analysis Team and the Department’s Chief Analyst and with other government departments including No 10, HMT and DSIT. It also has good links with key stakeholders such as the CMA, consumer organisations such as Citizens Advice and Which?, and academia.
Our past work has included:
- Research and policy design analysis into the impact and prevalence of fake reviews: Investigating the prevalence and impact of fake reviews - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Impact assessment and policy design analysis to support the Digital Market, Competition and Consumer Act: Microsoft Word - Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill - Impact Assessment Summary.docx (parliament.uk)
- Assessing the case for government intervention into potential profiteering on essential goods during the Coronavirus pandemic.
- Survey design to understand the overall prevalence of consumer harm, across different types of goods and service purchases in the UK: Consumer protection study 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
We work flexibly within the team to support each individual’s workload, non-work commitments and their learning and development goals. This means that there will be scope, if desired, for you to work on projects across the competition and consumer policy areas.
- Collaborating with policy colleagues to design and lead on analysis that influences the future of competition and consumer policy beyond the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill and the current competition and consumer landscape
- Scoping and delivering research, conducting regulatory impact analysis and evaluations to influence policy across the policy-cycle, and Value for Money analysis to inform the directorate’s spending decisions
- Engaging and collaborating on common analytical interests with external stakeholders, such as the Competition and Markets Authority, Citizens Advice and academics
- Contributing to a friendly, supportive and inclusive team environment within the wider Competition, Consumer Policy and Department for Business and Trade analytical communities
- Line management responsibility for 1-2 junior analysts