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89443 - Senior Social Researcher Analyst, Analysis Directorate (2 roles available)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 01 Awst 2024 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £39,868 i £50,039 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | The national salary range is £39,868 - £43,535 London salary range is £45,824 - £50,039 Your salary will be dependent on your base location |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 30 Awst 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | UK |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 2 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Ministry of Justice |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 89443 |
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Do you have the passion, values, and ability to help us solve the biggest problems of the justice system?
Senior Social Researcher (SEO), Analysis Directorate, Ministry of Justice
Overview
We have two roles in the Accredited Programmes Evaluations team, within the Analysis Directorate.
Roles are open to:
Existing analysts from the Government Statistical Service (GSS; including Data Science), Government Social Research (GSR), Government Economics Service (GES), Government Operational Research Service (GORS), either on level transfer or on promotion.
Specialist allowance
Due to the role(s) being analytical, those successful in recruitment will be eligible for a specialist allowance following an analytical interview based on the following values:
SEO London: £500
SEO National: £1500
Minimum requirements to apply:
Candidates must be able to show the relevant experience and skills and must meet the criteria for entry:
You have significant work experience (usually a minimum of three years) evidencing use of data and/or analytical skills. Time spent on an analytical PhD can count towards this.
We welcome applications from candidates based across the UK. Candidates will have the option of being based in the Leeds or London HQ offices (with flexible working arrangements available) or your nearest Justice Collaboration Centre or Justice Satellite Office. These are based at the following JCCs: Cardiff, Leeds, Nottingham, South Tyneside, Brighton, Ipswich and Liverpool, and the following JSOs: Ashford, Beverley, Haverfordwest, Hull, Merthyr Tydfil, Manchester, Newport, Birmingham, Sheffield, North Shields, Bristol, Wolverhampton, Weston-Super-Mare, Stafford, Truro, Winchester, Norwich, and Leeds.
Alternative locations may be available and will be discussed and agreed on the completion of background checks.
Interviews are likely to take place in September 2024 and will be held via MS Teams. We will keep a merit list for a year for those who successfully pass the interview board but who are not offered a post.
About Analysis
We are passionate about improving justice outcomes through innovative research, data and analysis. In Analysis, we provide high quality data and analysis helping to ensure strategic, policy, finance, corporate and operational decisions are based on robust evidence.
We create a culture in which people are empowered with the data and information to make excellent decisions; using cutting edge tools, techniques and collaboration; putting evidence at the heart of the justice system.
We are a multi-disciplinary team of around 650 staff that sits at the heart of the Ministry of Justice providing analytical support across a diverse and exciting agenda. We work in a dynamic and fast-paced context and our skills are in heavy demand across the Ministry of Justice. Our collaborations beyond government are seen as ground-breaking. The Data and Analysis community is made up of analysts and specialists including: Social Researchers, Economists, Operational Researchers, Statisticians and other data specialists (such as data strategists, data dissemination, generalists and assurance experts).
Why work in Analysis Directorate?
In Analysis, we want all our people to feel valued for who they are and for the work they do. We provide a warm, inclusive place to work and offer a wide range of flexibilities and benefits as part of our people offer to reward our staff.
What we offer
Flexible working arrangements and a focus on equality of opportunity – including welcoming part-time and/or job-share arrangements, compressed hours, working from home or your nearest Justice Collaboration Centres or Justice Satellite Office for a proportion of your time.
Career development – regular development and promotion opportunities across a wide range of roles, career development support, with a generous individual learning and development budget.
Range of new areas of work and new tools and techniques – we pride ourselves on our excellent deployment of well-established analytical methods, but also our progress to date. Progress such as our ambitious and innovative transformation programme to leverage departmental data and drive evidence-based decision-making using cutting-edge tools and techniques (for example: experimentation, personalisation, artificial intelligence).
Analysis is at the centre of the Department’s decision making – our transformation programme is focused on maximising our impact on departmental outcomes. The Ministry of Justice’s Senior Team and our Ministerial Team want all decisions to be evidence driven – your analysis will be key in influencing decisions and real-world impact.
Vibrant community – part of a multidisciplinary team that has a supportive culture and is looking to further develop the community with the help of everyone.
See the frontline and what your work is influencing – regular opportunities to visit our front-line service providers, including courts, prisons, and probation to better understand the areas your analysis is affecting.
What you’ll do
HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) are world leaders in developing offender behaviour change programmes and there are currently around 20 programmes delivered across prisons and probation. These programmes are one of the Department’s main rehabilitation offers and aim to change the thinking, attitudes and behaviours which may lead people to reoffend. The Accredited Programmes Evaluation Team is engaged in a series of large-scale retrospective quantitative evaluations of the impact of these programmes on reoffending, prison misconduct and other outcomes. The evaluations are typically conducted in-house using impact evaluation statistical techniques such as propensity score matching.
Senior Social Researcher (SEO), Analysis Directorate, Ministry of Justice
Overview
We have two roles in the Accredited Programmes Evaluations team, within the Analysis Directorate.
Roles are open to:
Existing analysts from the Government Statistical Service (GSS; including Data Science), Government Social Research (GSR), Government Economics Service (GES), Government Operational Research Service (GORS), either on level transfer or on promotion.
Specialist allowance
Due to the role(s) being analytical, those successful in recruitment will be eligible for a specialist allowance following an analytical interview based on the following values:
SEO London: £500
SEO National: £1500
Minimum requirements to apply:
Candidates must be able to show the relevant experience and skills and must meet the criteria for entry:
You have significant work experience (usually a minimum of three years) evidencing use of data and/or analytical skills. Time spent on an analytical PhD can count towards this.
We welcome applications from candidates based across the UK. Candidates will have the option of being based in the Leeds or London HQ offices (with flexible working arrangements available) or your nearest Justice Collaboration Centre or Justice Satellite Office. These are based at the following JCCs: Cardiff, Leeds, Nottingham, South Tyneside, Brighton, Ipswich and Liverpool, and the following JSOs: Ashford, Beverley, Haverfordwest, Hull, Merthyr Tydfil, Manchester, Newport, Birmingham, Sheffield, North Shields, Bristol, Wolverhampton, Weston-Super-Mare, Stafford, Truro, Winchester, Norwich, and Leeds.
Alternative locations may be available and will be discussed and agreed on the completion of background checks.
Interviews are likely to take place in September 2024 and will be held via MS Teams. We will keep a merit list for a year for those who successfully pass the interview board but who are not offered a post.
About Analysis
We are passionate about improving justice outcomes through innovative research, data and analysis. In Analysis, we provide high quality data and analysis helping to ensure strategic, policy, finance, corporate and operational decisions are based on robust evidence.
We create a culture in which people are empowered with the data and information to make excellent decisions; using cutting edge tools, techniques and collaboration; putting evidence at the heart of the justice system.
We are a multi-disciplinary team of around 650 staff that sits at the heart of the Ministry of Justice providing analytical support across a diverse and exciting agenda. We work in a dynamic and fast-paced context and our skills are in heavy demand across the Ministry of Justice. Our collaborations beyond government are seen as ground-breaking. The Data and Analysis community is made up of analysts and specialists including: Social Researchers, Economists, Operational Researchers, Statisticians and other data specialists (such as data strategists, data dissemination, generalists and assurance experts).
Why work in Analysis Directorate?
In Analysis, we want all our people to feel valued for who they are and for the work they do. We provide a warm, inclusive place to work and offer a wide range of flexibilities and benefits as part of our people offer to reward our staff.
What we offer
Flexible working arrangements and a focus on equality of opportunity – including welcoming part-time and/or job-share arrangements, compressed hours, working from home or your nearest Justice Collaboration Centres or Justice Satellite Office for a proportion of your time.
Career development – regular development and promotion opportunities across a wide range of roles, career development support, with a generous individual learning and development budget.
Range of new areas of work and new tools and techniques – we pride ourselves on our excellent deployment of well-established analytical methods, but also our progress to date. Progress such as our ambitious and innovative transformation programme to leverage departmental data and drive evidence-based decision-making using cutting-edge tools and techniques (for example: experimentation, personalisation, artificial intelligence).
Analysis is at the centre of the Department’s decision making – our transformation programme is focused on maximising our impact on departmental outcomes. The Ministry of Justice’s Senior Team and our Ministerial Team want all decisions to be evidence driven – your analysis will be key in influencing decisions and real-world impact.
Vibrant community – part of a multidisciplinary team that has a supportive culture and is looking to further develop the community with the help of everyone.
See the frontline and what your work is influencing – regular opportunities to visit our front-line service providers, including courts, prisons, and probation to better understand the areas your analysis is affecting.
What you’ll do
HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) are world leaders in developing offender behaviour change programmes and there are currently around 20 programmes delivered across prisons and probation. These programmes are one of the Department’s main rehabilitation offers and aim to change the thinking, attitudes and behaviours which may lead people to reoffend. The Accredited Programmes Evaluation Team is engaged in a series of large-scale retrospective quantitative evaluations of the impact of these programmes on reoffending, prison misconduct and other outcomes. The evaluations are typically conducted in-house using impact evaluation statistical techniques such as propensity score matching.