Head of Strategic Roads Research and Evaluation
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 01 Mai 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £54,857 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | National Minimum Salary: £54,857; London Minimum Salary: £59,686 |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 18 Mai 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Leeds |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 401609/2 |
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Are you experienced with designing, commissioning and delivering social research and evaluation projects?
Can you identify solutions to deliver evidence or advice to policy in a fast-paced environment?
Do you have experience of social research and evaluation methods?
Would you like to shape the future of the Department for Transport?
If so, then we would love for you to apply!
Who is the Head of Strategic Roads Social Research and Evaluation?
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a complex, high-profile programme of work, taking a strategic approach to social research and evaluation in roads. This role would suit a strong social researcher who is looking to build their leadership skills and multidisciplinary work.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of key Government and Departmental missions, such as growing the economy, promoting safety and creating a green transport network, through high quality research and evaluation.
A key priority will be designing, delivering and assuring a range of high profile, strategically important research and evaluation programmes. This includes designing and delivering the Road Investment Strategy (RIS) programme evaluation. This will be a large, multi-year, multi-stranded evaluation, complex in terms of scale, methods and stakeholder engagement. This evaluation will deliver crucial evidence for the department, to ensure we have a robust assessment of the impacts of the RIS programme, to make the case as to why funding is needed to maintain the existing network as well as deliver new schemes.
You will also be responsible for designing, delivering and assuring research and evaluation projects to support the wider strategic roads and smart motorways agenda. This includes working other analysts (including National Highways) to develop a cohesive evidence base, commissioning new research and providing advice to policy colleagues in how to use evidence appropriately.
You will be embedded in a multidisciplinary analytical team, REME (Roads Economics, Modelling and Evaluation), working with a range of professions in DfT and National Highways (social researchers, evaluators, economists and transport modellers, statisticians). REME is a friendly and inclusive team of around 20 analysts, with a strong focus on learning and sharing expertise. We have analysts in Birmingham, Leeds and London, and National Highways also have offices in Birmingham. We are looking to expand our representation in Leeds and Birmingham teams further.
DfT have around 300 staff based in the state-of-the-art Colmore Building in Birmingham and 400 staff based in Wellington Place in Leeds. Both offices have a growing community of analysts, regularly holding events (e.g. learning and development) and active engagement with other government departments.
We use our multi-disciplinary expertise to provide creative and innovative analytical insights and assurance in policy making - helping make travelling on roads smoother, safer and cleaner – now and for the future. The team aims to ensure that relevant, robust and trusted evidence is at the centre of policy making, lessons are learnt through policy evaluations and investment decisions provide value for money. There are lots of opportunities to make strategic suggestions and develop ways of working, both within your team, and in terms of working with other analysts and policy colleagues.
Responsibilities
Key duties of the role include:
- Providing analytical leadership. Provide overall leadership for the portfolio of research and evaluation activity in the roads directorates.
- Providing expert advice to deliver impactful research. Ensure that research and evaluation is targeted on policy needs; shape work with stakeholders to create impact.
- Identify solutions to deliver evidence or advice to policy in a fast-paced environment. Manage a portfolio of work, to advisory roles, or lighter-touch, creative analysis.
- Take a strong approach to prioritisation, making recommendations for where research/evaluation can have the most impact or address key areas of risk and stakeholder concern, or where work can be stopped or reduced.
- Provide advice and suitable quality assurance to ensure social research and/or evaluation are fit for purpose. This includes DfT products as well as products commissioned by others.
- Collaborate with other analysts and analytical disciplines, including economists, statisticians and transport modellers within roads and across DfT, as well as delivery agencies, academics and other stakeholders.
For an in-depth insight into the role please refer to the Role Profile.
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