Poverty and Living Standards Senior Analyst

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

Job summary

A leading government agency in the UK is seeking an Analyst to contribute to poverty analysis and policy development. This role involves engaging with senior officials, leading analytical projects, and influencing policy based on living standards. The ideal candidate will have expertise in R and strong leadership skills, ensuring impactful communication of complex analysis. The position offers competitive benefits, including flexible work patterns and an extensive pension scheme.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Flexible working patterns

Generous parental leave

Defined Benefit pension scheme

Cycle-to-work scheme

Active staff networks

Qualifications

• Essential knowledge of R or similar analytical software.
• Ability to analyze data and communicate findings effectively.
• Proven leadership skills to motivate and engage team members.

Responsibilities

• Expand analytical capability for poverty analysis.
• Provide briefings to ministers on living standards.
• Lead development of living standards narrative.
• Influence policy related to living standards.
• Lead engagements and respond to inquiries on living standards.
• Build relationships across departments.

Skills

Critical thinking

Data analysis

Leadership

R or similar software

Communication

Job description

Are you an analyst with outstanding critical thinking and leadership skills to craft strategy? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

About the Team

The Labour Markets and Distributional Analysis (LMDA) team is a friendly 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 the National Living Wage and DWP active labour market programmes.

Our part of the team; the Equalities & Living Standards Analysis (ELSA) branch is made up of six analysts. Our branch seeks to improve our understanding of policy impacts on different groups in society. We support the policy development across HMT by leading on poverty, cost-of-living, general living standards-related analysis as well as equalities and disparities analysis.

We work jointly with the Distributional Analysis branch, which is made up of around seven analysts, who advise Ministers on how tax and spending decisions impact on households. We also work closely with Macroeconomic Coordination & Strategy in Economics Group on the Cost of Living, and with the Equalities Policy Branch in Public Spending Group on equalities analysis.

The post holder would have the privilege of contributing to the Darlington office expansion, working closely with members of the team also based in Darlington, including one of the Directors of the Personal Tax, Welfare and Pensions group.

About the Job

In this role, you will:

• Expand your team’s analytical capability producing HMT’s poverty analysis.
• Brief seniors/ministers on living standards: you will work to provide ministers with the best possible evidence on living standards indicators beyond real household disposable income.
• Develop the living standards narrative: you will lead HMT Living Standards briefing, communicating evidence on living standards to relevant teams in the department. This will include feeding in the Living Standards analysis and narrative supporting fiscal events as required.
• Influence policy: you will lead ad-hoc analytical projects on different areas of policy, ensuring that advice on living standards, distributional impacts and equalities considerations are fed into policy development and ministerial advice.
• Lead external engagement: you will lead on relevant debates, Freedom of Information requests, correspondence and parliamentary questions relating to living standards to answer the public questions on the topic.
• Build strong relationships: you will build positive relationships across Treasury, other departments and beyond. This will help ensure our evidence and analysis is up-to-date and relevant to policy development.

About You

A working knowledge of R or a similar software is essential for this role. You will be able to analyse data and communicate analysis with impact. You will motivate and engage others in delivering a shared vision. Proactively lead the analytical planning and vision of your branch and championing team’s analysis across the department to maximise impact. Value difference, diversity and inclusion, ensuring fairness and opportunity for all. Communicate complex analysis powerfully to senior, non-technical customers who are interested in our work and build effective partnerships and relationships with a range of customers within the department and beyond to achieve tangible outcomes.

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].