Higher Economics Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £36,728 i £43,834 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | National: £36,728 - £40,670 London: £39,684 - £43,834 |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 09 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | BS2 0EL |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 411436/1 |
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We support the government workforce with the right skills and capability. We are working with leaders to get the right people in the right jobs, with the right skills and
continuous learning to excel in their roles.
We provide leadership, and in turn, create leaders with exceptional line management capability across departments, influencing partners in the wider public sector and beyond. This involves getting our retention and reward strategy right, to nurture specific skills, and create pride and resilience in our workforce.
Our role is also to provide system leadership across central government in pulling together back office services. Collectively, we help support the Cabinet Office’s priority to drive efficiencies, and reforms that will make government work better, to ultimately provide a better service to the public.
Within the GPG, Government Skills was set up in 2020 to drive up capability across Government in an evidence-based and impact-led way. Government Skills ensures all civil servants, from entry to most senior leadership, have the core and specialist knowledge, skills and networks they need to deliver great public services and address complex systemic challenges, now and in the future. This work is central to the Public Sector Reform and Efficiency policy area, and supports Mission Delivery by ensuring the workforce has the capability and learning culture to deliver against the Government’s missions.
The Evidence and Impact team within Government Skills is responsible for ensuring that hundreds of millions of pounds of annual spend on developing the skills,
knowledge and relationships ofthe Government workforce is evidence-based and impact-led. We use a combination of analytical methods covering monitoring/data
analytics, social research, evaluation, statistics, behavioural and user research, and economic analysis to provide robust, purposeful insights to inform business decisions. Our evidence supports the creation of effective policy and strategy on the future skills needs of the government and wider public sector workforce, and supports effective design, commissioning and delivery ofthe interventions required to achieve this. The team has a reputation as a centre of expertise supporting the whole of government on these issues, and is expanding as part of plans for the next spending review period 2025-26.
You can find more information about Government Skills on our GOV.UK page: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-skills-and-curriculum-unit including about our team: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/evidence-based-learning-and-development and our current Evaluation Strategy: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-campus-evaluation-strategy.
As Higher Economic Analyst you will support economic analysis and economic evaluation across Government Skills to understand the relationship between workforce skills, capability-building investments and critical outcomes including performance, productivity and mission delivery across government and the wider public sector. This will include supporting the development of models of economic evaluation which can drive greater impact (including performance, efficiency and productivity) and overall value from the significant investment made in workforce capability.
Due to the implementation of Mission Delivery, and the current Spending Review, this is an exciting time to ensure that Government Skills is informed by a strong foundation of evidence and evaluation.
You work with other economists within the business area and partner teams to develop an understanding of where economic methods and insights can add value to policy decisions, and also what their limitations are to deliver the best analysis and outcomes.
You will support economic analysis to inform and develop business cases, and as part of this support on conducting options appraisals, quantitative and qualitative value-for-money analysis and wider impact analysis across a range of projects, to ensure senior leaders are aware of all available options and related evidence, and help inform recommendations on the preferred way forward.
There are a wide range of analytical projects you may become involved with, being responsive to the priorities of the directorate and our wider stakeholders. We will support you to develop your analytical skills and interests. This includes the option to apply for opportunities to study economics at a higher level alongside work.
You will work closely with other economists, social researchers and statisticians in the Evidence and Impact (E&I) team as well as building relationships across the wider Government Skills Directorate and with selected cross-government stakeholders.
Responsibilities will include:
- Supporting the development of business cases which quantify and appraise the potential costs and benefits of skills, learning and development interventions of various scales across government and the wider public sector, including for a substantial portfolio of transformation work.
- Support our programme of analytical work in the areas of benefits, economic analysis, and the application of economic techniques within impact, process and value-for-money evaluations. This will include project managing economic analysis (e.g. by producing time plans, maintaining project documentation or arranging meetings). It will also involve being involved in ensuring work is compliant with key quality frameworks like the Green, Aqua and Magenta Books, implementing quality assurance processes, ensuring work is ethical, and ensuring work is GDPR compliant, including producing DPIAs.
- Developing and continually updating your knowledge of the external economic evidence base which is relevant to the key policy questions facing Government Skills, for example by reading journals, carrying out targeted literature search, appraisal and synthesis, or having discussions with academics and external economists.
- Continually developing yourself in terms of your core skills for working in government, and your knowledge and experience of relevant types of economic analysis, including being open to innovation and new approaches, such as careful use of AI in analysis.
- Contributing to the effective development of the Evidence and Impact Team by supporting at least one cross-cutting corporate contribution, for example, building capacity in economic analysis across the team.
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