Senior Statistical Officer - Road Safety Statistics
| Posting date: | 21 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £42,848 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £42,848 (National Minimum) £47,052 (London Minimum) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 February 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 386982/2 |
Summary
Are you passionate about producing statistics, leading on the collection of one the Department’s most important datasets?
Do you have excellent stakeholder engagement and effective communication skills?
Would you relish the opportunity to be involved in improving the evidence base for road safety, and impact key policy decisions by developing and analysing complex datasets?
If so, we would love to hear from you!
The Road Safety Statistics team manages the statistical data collection, publication, and dissemination of road casualty statistics, which are among the most widely used of any of the Department for Transport’s (DfT) statistical series and support one of its most high-profile policy areas with a wide range of internal and external users.
The team also has a stretching programme of work to develop data collection, publication, and dissemination pipelines, including migrating complex data loading processes from SQL into Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This is an exciting time to join the team with a new road safety strategic framework imminent, and the team’s statistics used to inform high-profile policy areas.
In this wide-ranging role you will lead the team’s work on engaging with police data suppliers and other stakeholders to collect and improve the key road collisions dataset, (known as STATS19), as well as on specific analysis and development projects (which can be tailored to the postholders interests and development needs to some extent).
In particular, you will be responsible for leading on the collection of police reported road casualty data via the STATS19 system, which involves collating data provided by over 40 police forces. The team are currently, implementing recommendations from the most recent STATS19 review, and the postholder will take responsibility for completion of this work. This will require working collaboratively with a wide range of IT suppliers and technical users of the data to ensure the team’s needs are covered and ultimately ensure that the STATS19 data remains fit for purpose and delivers the maximum possible impact, ultimately in helping to reduce road casualties.
STATS19 is one of the Department’s most important datasets and used extensively within and outside DfT including for publication of annual data and statistical publications on road collisions and casualties, making this a highly important and stretching role.
Responsibilities
Will include but not be limited to:
- Leading the team’s collection of road collision (STATS19) data from police forces and local authorities, promoting the efficient collection of accurate, fit for purpose data which forms the foundation of the Government’s evidence base on road safety.
- Leading the team’s relationship with IT suppliers and other technical stakeholders with an interest in collision data, engaging effectively to understand emerging issues, plan mitigation activities and resolve issues.
- Contributing to the team’s work to transform the team’s databases and data loading processes, in particular work to migrate these to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by 2026.
- Leading on defined data development and analytical projects to support the team’s work, which could include developing new data sources to reduce burdens of collection on police forces, or linking road collision data with other sources (for example hospital or fire service data).
For full details please refer to the Role Profile.
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