Distributional Analyst

HM TREASURY; Darlington; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

HM Treasury seeks a versatile analyst for its Distributional Analysis branch. The role involves conducting in-depth quantitative analysis to inform government policy, supporting key projects and communicating findings effectively. Ideal candidates will have experience in impactful data analysis and excellent communication skills, working closely with ministers on high-profile topics.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus public holidays

Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share)

Generous parental and adoption leave packages

Defined Benefit pension scheme with high employer contributions

Cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme

Qualifications

• Experience of leading robust quantitative analysis that influenced decision making.
• Strong ability to present technical analysis clearly to a range of audiences.
• Proven ability to work flexibly across teams and deliver high-quality work.

Responsibilities

• Produce independent ad-hoc analysis for various policy areas.
• Maintain knowledge of Distributional Analysis models.
• Communicate results through written text and data visualization.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Communication

Technical analysis

Teamwork

Innovation

Job description

Are you looking for a broad and stretching role operating across HM Treasury’s Distributional Analysis branch. Leading analysis across priority projects, supporting the branch in providing ministers and policy officials with advice on distributional issues. If so, we'd love to hear from you!

About the Team

The Labour Markets and Distributional Analysis team is a friendly and diverse team of outstanding analysts and policy makers. We seek to bring together an understanding of households’ living standards and position in the labour market, with key labour market policies, such as DWP’s unemployment regime and tax-free childcare.

The advertised role sits within the Distributional Analysis branch of the team. A sociable and supportive team working on interesting and high-profile topics, we analyse how tax, welfare and public service spending decisions will affect households’ living standards and advise Ministers accordingly. Whilst our approach on tax and welfare closely mirrors respected think tanks such as the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Resolution Foundation, we also model the impacts of public services, such as NHS, schools and social care spending. This broader approach means we can consider a much wider range of ways to provide support to the poorest and most vulnerable families. This means we are involved in policy discussions in areas including social care, childcare, Universal Credit, tax, pensions, net zero transition, and many more!

We play a key role in fiscal events (such as Spending Review and Budgets) where we inform Ministers on the overall impacts of a suite of policy decisions, and our analysis is published in Treasury’s high-profile distributional analysis reports, which regularly features in political exchanges and media reports. The rest of the year we concentrate on contributing analysis into ongoing policy development, as well as building our modelling capability to ensure we stay at the cutting edge of what we do. As such, our work provides an attractive blend of high-profile cross-cutting policy thinking and detailed analytical challenge and would perfectly suit an analyst looking to stretch their analytical capability whilst working close to the centre of government.

About the Job

In this role, you will:

1. Produce independent ad-hoc analysis for a variety of tax, welfare or spending policy areas, or other economic impacts on households.

2. Gain and maintain knowledge and capability in using the wider set of Distributional Analysis models to:

• Contribute to model maintenance (including the core tax and welfare microsimulation model)
• Use the models when business needs require it Provide robust quality assurance for colleagues’ analysis.

3. Produce living standards analysis and supply results in relation to a range of policy questions across the department. This includes effectively communicating results through written text and data visualization.

4. Develop innovative new methods for analysing living standards. This includes ingesting research and techniques of external organizations and individuals into the Distributional Analysis team, as well as building and maintaining code to implement analysis.

5. Communicate analysis compiled across the team, including contributing to or leading on advice, briefing and presentations to ministers and senior and working-level colleagues.

About You

The successful candidate will have:

• Experience of leading robust quantitative analysis that influenced decision making, including steps taken to ensure the analysis had maximum impact
• Strong ability to present technical analysis clearly and efficiently, both written and verbally, to a range of audiences including senior colleagues
• A proven ability to work flexibly across teams and to deliver high-quality work to deadlines
• Capability in identifying areas for improvement and delivering the change through innovative ideas

Some of the Benefits our people love!

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28.97%
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at [e-mail]