Analyst for the Arts

inploi; Manchester; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

A governmental analytical team in the UK is seeking an experienced analyst to support arts sector economic analysis. Responsibilities include delivering impactful analysis, engaging stakeholders, and leveraging market intelligence. Candidates should have strong econometric skills and experience with analytical tools like R or Python. The role offers a competitive salary package and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Benefits package

Professional growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Self-starter able to lead analytical projects.
• Effective communicator with stakeholders.
• Project management skills to drive work.
• Excellent econometric/statistical skills.
• Strong applied knowledge of economic principles.

Responsibilities

• Deliver analysis on policy programmes.
• Engage with colleagues for visibility of analysis.
• Provide expert advice to business cases.
• Work with ACE analytical team for support.
• Build relationships with academics and researchers.

Skills

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Econometric skills

Project management skills

Analytical tools (R or Python)

Microeconomic principles

Education

Relevant analytical profession (GES, GORS, GSR, GSG)

Tools

SQL

R

Python

Job description

Salary: National £41,565 - £50,608 + £4,200 analyst allowance (+ Benefits). London £44,752 - £55,289 + £4,200 analyst allowance.

Overview

This role is based in the Cultural and Creative Industries Analysis team. The team is embedded within the Culture directorate. The directorate’s work includes: overseeing a number of public bodies (Arms Length Bodies), e.g. Arts Council England and our National Museums; supporting the wider cultural sectors; delivering our own policy, projects and programmes; and working with partners around Whitehall to promote the value of our sectors. The team is working to deliver the Arts Everywhere Fund, which includes £85 million to support urgent capital works to keep venues across the country up and running.

Our mission is to ensure high-quality evidence and analysis informs all stages of the policy cycle. Our mission is supported by 4 objectives:

• Deliver influential analysis to inform policy, delivery and strategic decisions
• Building our evidence base by identifying and filling our key evidence gaps through high quality research, data and evaluation
• Work with others (policy, ALBs, academia, ESRC, AHRC etc) to deliver joined up evidence and analysis and maximise impact
• Provide the right environment, support and opportunities for team members to flourish, developing as individuals and delivering excellent outputs, and maintaining our wellbeing.

As a embedded team we work collaboratively with our policy teams and stakeholders to drive positive change, shape policy and set direction. More recently, our work has been focussed on Government’s missions, including Health, Growth and Opportunity Mission.

Job description

You will work with the Arts Principal Research Officer to support the analytical needs of the arts team, providing support in a dynamic and varied policy area.

We are looking for a highly driven analyst with strong technical skills to work on priority analytical projects. This includes analysis of the arts sectors impact on economic growth and understanding the financial resilience organisations and the arts impact on local economies.

Given the role will work across a wide range of stakeholders including policy, ALBs, consultancies, research councils, the role is suited to those with strong verbal and written communication skills, economic and econometric skills. In addition the post holder will be required to build strong stakeholder relationships with the museum and cultural property sector, influencing the use of research data and evaluation.

You should be able to work with policy officials to think strategically about the role of evidence and analysis within the wider cultural and heritage space e.g. linking up with the Culture and Heritage Capital programme.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Delivery analysis on policy programmes ensure they informed by the latest analysis and evidence. In the past this has included analysis of the arts sectors impact on economic growth, understanding the financial resilience organisations and the arts impact on local economies.
• Engaging with policy colleagues to increase the visibility and impact of analysis and taking a proactive approach to deploying analysis and evidence and improving capabilities.
• Providing expert technical advice to business cases, working directly with ACE and other large organisations (i.e. National Theatre or the Southbank Centre) to develop robust and innovative proposals with strong economic, strategic and value for money cases.
• Working with the ACE analytical team to support their research, analysis and evaluation.
• Working with external organisations to leverage market intelligence and sector expertise. This will include building relationships with leading academics and researchers in the Arts.

Person specification

Essential Requirements

• A self-starter who is able to lead analytical projects and be proactive in setting out priorities and plans of action.
• An effective communicator who can work with a wide range of stakeholders, building valuable and influential relationships, use written and verbal communication to convey complex analytical concepts or analysis.
• Project management and organisational skills, as you will drive forward discrete pieces of work.
• Excellent econometric/statistical skills and a proven ability to identify and define core analytical questions to inform decision making, and devise the most appropriate approaches to address, within time and resource constraints.
• Strong applied knowledge and application of microeconomic and macroeconomic principles to real-world policy problems.
• Proficiency with analytical tools such as R or Python for econometric analysis.
• Knowledge of research and evaluation methods.

Desirable Skills

• Proficiency in using SQL
• Knowledge of the Arts sector and the wider creative industries.
• Experience of working with administrative datasets. This can be at any point in the life cycle (collection, analysis, publication etc)

Eligibility and Testing Process

As part of the application process, you will be asked to confirm your current analytical profession (GES, GORS, GSR, or GSG), or indicate if you are applying to become badged in one of these professions.

To be eligible, you must either:

• Be a badged member of one of the analytical professions: GES, GORS, GSR, or GSG or
• Meet the eligibility criteria to become badged in one of these professions.

If you are not currently a member of the GSR or GSG, you will be required to complete an online test to assess your suitability. This test will be administered after you have submitted your full application. You will receive an invitation via email containing the test details and the deadline for completion you must pass this test for your application to progress to the next stage of the recruitment process.

Please note: Failure to complete the test or meet the deadline will result in your application not being progressed further.

We are running an information session where prospective applicants can find out more about the role. and will take place on:

• 26th September 2025 at 11am

The session will be an opportunity to hear more about the role, the team and wider directorate and the department. It will also be an opportunity for you to ask any questions.

Please register your interest by filling out this Registration form by 11:00 on 25/09/25 and you will be sent an invitation.

Please note that the session will not be recorded and will not focus on the DCMS recruitment process - please direct any queries that you have on this topic (timelines, reasonable adjustments, onboarding etc) to [e-mail]

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