Deputy Director, Economics

The Health Foundation; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 88,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

The Health Foundation is seeking a Deputy Director for Analysis to lead the economic capabilities and data engineering within the Analysis directorate. You will guide teams to deliver impactful outputs for thematic programmes and ensure data are secure and modernised.

You will manage a team, collaborate across the Foundation, and contribute to cutting-edge economic insight. Hybrid working is in place with in-person requirements and a commitment to inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Lead economic analysis and product delivery to meet thematic programme needs.
• Oversee data engineering and information asset ownership.
• Line manage direct reports and sub-teams.
• Quality assurance of economic models and outputs.
• Develop new capabilities to stay at the cutting edge of economics.
• Network across the Foundation to identify opportunities for impact.

Job description

Salary:

£97,903 per annum plus excellent benefits

Contract type:

Permanent, full time or part time (0.8 FTE minimum)

Hours per week:

37.5 hours per week. All staff are required to work in person for a minimum of two days per week, in line with our hybrid working policy. The post-holder may be required to undertake some work outside normal working hours.

About The Health Foundation

Health is our most precious asset. Good health enables us to live happy, fulfilling lives, fuels our prosperity and helps build a stronger society. Yet good health remains out of reach for too many people in the UK, and health and care services are struggling to provide access to timely, high-quality care.

The Health Foundation is an independent charitable organisation with a mission to build a healthier UK. We work to achieve this by generating high quality research and analysis; developing practical solutions to the biggest problems in health and health services; engaging, convening and building coalitions to build understanding, inform debate and drive action; and developing the long‑term capability needed to transform health and care.

More about us

We expect everyone who works with us to be committed to our values and to share our commitment to becoming a more diverse and inclusive organisation. Our values are impact, evidence, integrity, and collaboration. You can read more about them in our five‑year strategy. We also expect everyone to share our commitment to becoming a more diverse and inclusive organisation and to help deliver our EDI strategy.

About The Role

This role is one of three key permanent Deputy Director roles in the Analysis directorate. You will work closely with the other Deputy Directors in Analysis, and other senior staff across the Foundation. You will be responsible for leading, developing and maintaining the economic capabilities and models in your team, ensuring that they deliver valuable and impactful outputs to Thematic Programme teams to agreed timescales and quality. You will also be responsible for delivering the Data Engineering capability within Analysis Directorate, ensuring that are our data are held securely, and modernising our ways of working to increase efficiency and speed using database storage. In recognition of this, you will act as Information Asset Owner for our data assets.

Key Responsibilities Are As Follows

• Leadership of economic analysis and products, including timely delivery of economic insights that meet thematic programme needs.
• Leadership of our data engineering and data management capability including acting as Information Asset Owner for our data assets.
• Line management and development of your direct reports and sub‑teams.
• Quality assurance of economic products and models produced by your team
• Develop new capabilities that maintain us at the cutting edge of economics.
• Network widely across the Foundation, to identify opportunities to increase impact.

Our priority is to find the right individual for each opportunity. We are dedicated to building an inclusive workplace that values diversity and invite you to find out more.

You can find the job description for this role here.

We are committed to an inclusive hiring process, where every candidate has the chance to showcase their unique skills and experience in an accessible and supported environment, to ensure that we can make the best appointment for each opportunity on merit.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage those from underrepresented groups in this field to apply to us.

We have identified three key areas to improving diversity. Our aim to achieve a more balanced representation across our organisation, with a particular focus on increasing the number of women in leadership, enhancing the representation of people from Black and ethnic minority backgrounds and welcoming more people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we strongly encourage applications from these groups.

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Closing date:

23:59, Sunday 1st November

Interview date:

Interviews are expected to be held in w/c 16th November.