Head of Equality Data and Analysis Division in OEO
| Posting date: | 29 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £76,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Non civil servants will be expected to start at the salary minimum if successful. Standard pay rules apply for existing civil servants. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 August 2025 |
| Location: | York |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 395801/5 |
Summary
Amongst the OEO’s current priorities are:
- Ensuring that equalities are at centre of the cross- government work to develop and deliver all the Government’s Missions including the Opportunity Mission led by Minister Phillipson as both Secretary of State (SoS) Education and Minister for Women & Equalities;
- Leading cross Government work to implement the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex;
- Leading work across government to tackle race inequality;
- Extending gender pay gap reporting requirements, introducing ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting and extending the right to equal pay to ethnic minorities and disabled people;
- Championing the rights of disabled people and working with them, so that their views and voices are at the heart of all that government does;
- Ensuring all LGBT+ people are safe, included, and protected from discrimination including by delivering a full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices;
- Improving the evidence base about equalities.
The Office for Equality and Opportunity (OEO) covers the overall framework of equality legislation in the UK, including disability policy, ethnic disparities, women’s equality and LGBT+ rights. These topic-specific policy teams are supported by cross-cutting teams on digital, comms, and data and analysis.
This post is the head of the cross-cutting Equality Data and Analysis Division (EDAD). The Division has about 20 analysts drawn from the economics, statistics and social research professions, located across several of the Cabinet Office sites (London, Manchester, York, Glasgow and Bristol).
This role requires an experienced analyst who has a track record of leading a programme of analytical work to meet the needs of policy teams, flexing the allocation of resources as needs evolve, and ensuring team cohesion and development.
You will be responsible for ensuring effective relationships between each policy team and supporting analysts, and for improving the evidence base data related to equalities. To do so you will own the strategic relationships with the Office for National Statistics and the Office for Statistics Regulation, and work with relevant analytical teams in other government departments and beyond.
You will make a contribution to the leadership and management of the Analysis Function within the Cabinet Office, working closely with other senior analysts, and to the corporate management of OEO.
Responsibilities:
- Provide effective leadership to EDAD, giving analysts a clear sense of direction and ensuring a distinctive voice within OEO.
- Oversee analytical support to, and arising from, legislative and associated work - including Impact Assessments and consultations - as well as support for non-legislative policy initiatives (including OEO contribution to Missions).
- Work with key government stakeholders - lead the relationship with ONS on data quality, and work with HMT and others through the new equalities analysis network.
- Strengthen and systematise relationships with academic researchers working on relevant equalities topics, for example by establishing a new academic reference panel.
- Lead a programme of enhancements to the way in which EDAD works and continue to strengthen its culture and commitment to continuous improvement.
- Lead work to establish and implement a programme of improvements to the evidence base - filling gaps, and enhancing the quality of existing data sources.
Current projects include:
- Disability - actively support the development of a funding consortium for a new survey, and a programme of research into the lived experience of disabled people.
- Ethnicity - lead a new programme of analytical and data quality activities
- Gender - oversee work to support external analytical needs (such as the FTSE Women Leaders Review) and research (for example, into the Gender Pay Gap, and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), and shape work to evaluate the impact of new legislative measures.
- LGBT - explore the case for a new LGBT+ survey, work with ONS and others on the collection of data on sex and gender identity, and work with the policy team to make best use of the summary of LGBT+ research evidence.
- Cross-cutting - lead work on the publication of a wider range of equalities data, lead a programme of data quality improvement work, champion work on intersectional analysis (focusing on the identification of policy-relevant actionable insights), explore the need for more data about attitudes to equalities, advocate for a focus on equalities in analytical work on the Missions, and grow a new economic analysis capability within OEO.
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