Place Analyst
| Posting date: | 21 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £34,584 to £38,044 per year |
| Additional salary information: | You may also be entitled to receive an additional analytical allowance of up to £4,200 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2025 |
| Location: | M2 3AW |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 406923/1 |
Summary
- a Central Analysis Team (the ‘hub’) responsible for strategic and cross-cutting priorities, assurance processes and the production and publication of our statistics
- Sector Analytical Teams (‘spokes’) that are embedded in policy directorates and lead analysis on individual sectors
The Strategic Analysis and Data Science Unit sits within Central Analysis as the analytical counterpart to department’s Strategy and Policy Units. We undertake analysis on emergent and priority issues covering the breadth of the department, working closely with sector analysts to improve our collective understanding of DCMS policies and programmes and their impact.
As a multidisciplinary team of economists, statisticians and data scientists, we serve as a centre of expertise for the department across economic growth, data improvement and modelling. With the creation of a new Place Analysis team, which this role will sit in, we are expanding that expertise to include spatial analysis, too.
Our Secretary of State has made ‘place’ one of her top priorities, with clear ambitions for improving growth and opportunity across every region and community. Data and analysis is at the forefront of how we do that, providing more granular insight into the issues that local areas face and the potential impact of DCMS interventions.
This role will sit in our newly established Place Analysis team, and will support the department’s ambitions to improve spatial capability across our data, tooling and methodologies. For example, by:
- Supporting our Strategy and Policy Units in making policy more sensitive to place, undertaking analysis to embed our new ‘place principles’ across the department eg. improved data sharing with Public Bodies and Local Authorities, and a more robust and consistent approach to place-based funding and interventions
- Utilising technical analysis to gather insights from our flagship ‘Place Analysis Tool’, which aims to collate the department’s data on spend and outcomes. This could include regression analysis and modelling to understand the factors that drive local differences in participation and outcomes.
- Collaborating with other analysts across the department to offer expertise on place-based analysis, and using the team’s work to influence other projects.
This is a highly visible HEO role with opportunity to influence analysis and policy across the department. It would particularly suit an ambitious and experienced analyst with a keen interest in improving the use of data and evidence to better understand geographic variation in outcomes, and the effectiveness of targeting local interventions.
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