Senior Policy and Insight Officer - Waverley Court - 12305_1762512650
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 07 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £46,023.00 i £54,476.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 21 Tachwedd 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Edinburgh, EH8 8BG |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | The City of Edinburgh Council |
| Math o swydd: | Dros dro |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 12305_1762512650 |
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Senior Policy and Insight Officer (Innovation) - fixed term until 31/12/2028
Waverley Court
Salary: £46,023 - £54,476
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
This position is part of the City of Edinburgh Council's participation in the Bloomberg Philanthropies Innovation Team (i-team) programme.
Charged with helping city officials and civic partners design and implement solutions that meet pressing local challenges, the i-team will expertly deploy data, collect insight, and collaborate across sectors to develop resident-centred interventions that improve people's lives. The i-team will receive technical assistance from regional and global specialists, and benefit from learnings from peers in city halls across the region and around the world.
To date, the Bloomberg Philanthropies i-team initiative has reached over 100 cities across 16 countries and four continents-representing more than 100 million residents-and inspired hundreds of other local governments to embrace innovation systems and practices.
About the role
Our Council Business Plan outlines three ambitious and interlinked strategic priorities: to create good places to live and work, to end poverty, and to become a Net-Zero city by 2030.
To support these objectives, we are establishing a new Innovation Team (i-team) in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies' i-teams programme. This exciting initiative empowers cities to tackle complex challenges through innovation, collaboration, and data-driven approaches. As part of the i-team, you will work on two key challenges: retrofitting heritage-listed buildings and removing stigma and complexity for those seeking support for poverty. These roles offer a unique opportunity to shape transformative solutions that deliver real impact for residents.
As the Senior Policy and Insight Officer, you will play a central role in driving evidence-led solutions. You will lead policy insight work that rigorously integrates public engagement, robust evidence, and design thinking to shape the team's strategy and solutions. This involves combining quantitative and qualitative research to understand complex systemic barriers and inform policy development. You will be instrumental in ensuring the team's transformative solutions are grounded in resident-centred insight and deliver real impact.
About you
You are an experienced professional with a background in evidence-led policy development or organisational insight roles and education to degree level or equivalent experience.
You must have proven ability to lead and manage citizen and stakeholder engagement processes (digital and in-person), including designing and facilitating activities like surveys, focus groups, and citizen panels. Crucially, you will demonstrate a strong understanding of data analysis, KPIs, and public sector datasets, with experience in applying data analytics to inform decision-making and track outcomes.
Experience in designing and executing robust evaluation methodologies (e.g. pilot studies, randomized control trials or difference-in-differences analysis) to measure the impact of interventions would be beneficial.
You possess exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of tailoring complex insight for senior audiences. You thrive on strategic thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills, and have the ability to build strong interpersonal and trusting relationships across diverse teams and stakeholders. You must be able to work with ambiguity and complexity, adept at balancing long-term systems thinking with the delivery of short-term, impactful deliverables within a fast-paced environment.
Benefits of working for us
We want to make working for the Council work for our colleagues. We provide a range of employee benefits to contribute to your physical, mental and financial wellbeing and a better standard of living. You can read more about these here: https://iaghme.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/pages/4011
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We also offer an occupational pension scheme via our provider, Lothian Pension Scheme, generous holiday allowance and flexible working opportunities.
We support a life-friendly approach for all our employees to strike the right balance between your work and family responsibilities.
Our support includes maternity, partner support, and adoption leave, employee assistance programme, career breaks, flexible working and more.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/behaviours" target="_blank">Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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