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Statistical Production Analyst
Office for National Statistics
Retford
Hybrid
GBP 41,000 - 55,000
Full time
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Job summary
Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to shaping UK policy through accurate and timely statistics. As a Statistical Production Analyst, you will play a vital role in producing high-quality statistical outputs that inform government decisions and public policy. Collaborate with diverse teams, engage with stakeholders, and utilize your analytical skills to drive improvements in statistical processes. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the understanding of the UK economy and society while benefiting from a supportive and inclusive working environment.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Experience in producing and managing statistical outputs.
- Ability to engage with stakeholders and ensure user needs are met.
Responsibilities
- Manage the production process of economic statistics.
- Analyze and interpret data to identify trends and issues.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders.
Skills
Education
Job description
ONS operates a flexible hybrid working model across the UK, with colleagues linked to one of our contractual locations in Newport, Titchfield (Fareham), Manchester, or Darlington and working between office and remote throughout the week.
All colleagues are required to work from their contractually allocated site for at least 40% of their working time. Due to current capacity constraints there is currently an exception for colleagues based at the Darlington Economic Campus, and the Manchester office with office attendance being 20%, this is expected to move to 40% attendance in 2025-26 and 2027-28 for Darlington.
Job Summary
Do you want to work for a company that effects policy for the good of the UK?
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.
The ONS are looking for Statistical Production Analysts to play a key role within Surveys and Economic Indicators (SEI), and Financial Sector Accounts and Corporations (FSAC) initially and will utilise the reserve list from this campaign to consider any future roles that become available.
The Statistical Production Analyst is a key role in SEI & FSAC, responsible for production, planning and co-ordination of statistical and analytical outputs. They help ensure that the ONS produces high quality and timely statistics to meet our diverse stakeholder requirements, and ensure the appropriate information is available to make effective government policy and private sector decisions.
About The Teams
SEI
The Annual Re-development team is responsible for driving forward the changes needed to transform the R&D suite of surveys, the Annual Business Survey (ABS) and the Annual Purchases Survey (APS). It will work with all the relevant stakeholders and project enablers to ensure that the transformation of these surveys takes account of future user needs, improvements to methods, data capture via electronic questionnaires, and new data processing platforms.
FSAC
NMFI branch is responsible for producing quarterly and annual estimates of GDP and Institutional sector accounts (SFA) for NACE section K, 64-66 (financial services excluding banks). The branch is responsible for producing estimates for 6 of the 9 sub sectors of Financial Corporations in the National Accounts. These data feed directly to GDP and the institutional sector accounts, and feed into other compiler areas across National Accounts as data inputs.
You will get the opportunity to work with partners from the UK and across the globe to use cutting edge data, insight and methods to produce a more detailed picture of the state of the UK than ever before.
Job Description
Responsibilities
The exact responsibilities will be dependent on the post you are allocated to. The following gives an example of the types of responsibilities you may have:-
- Managing the production process of economic statistics through coordinating survey teams and/or compiler areas to ensure internal, national and international data deliveries are made on time and to a high standard.
- Analyse and interpret data to understand movements, draw on a wide range of sources to develop a narrative, and identify and address issues in data processes, systems and methods where they arise.
- Clear communication with stakeholders through the appropriate channels and delivering key messages to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Effective planning to ensure teams are sufficiently resourced, timetables are set and quality assurance processes are adhered to throughout the production cycle.
- Effective staff management and resource management (where applicable) – include building relationships.
- Engage in and encourage a culture of curiosity to identify trends, stories and errors within statistics.
- Ensuring their technical and analytical skills are kept up-to-date and participating in and promoting (where relevant) continuous improvement.
The exact responsibilities will be dependent on the post you are allocated to. The following gives an example of the types of responsibilities you may have:-
- Managing the production process of economic statistics through coordinating survey teams and/or compiler areas to ensure internal, national and international data deliveries are made on time and to a high standard.
- Analyse and interpret data to understand movements, draw on a wide range of sources to develop a narrative, and identify and address issues in data processes, systems and methods where they arise.
- Clear communication with stakeholders through the appropriate channels and delivering key messages to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Effective planning to ensure teams are sufficiently resourced, timetables are set and quality assurance processes are adhered to throughout the production cycle.
- Effective staff management and resource management (where applicable) – include building relationships.
- Engage in and encourage a culture of curiosity to identify trends, stories and errors within statistics.
- Ensuring their technical and analytical skills are kept up-to-date and participating in and promoting (where relevant) continuous improvement.
Essential Criteria
Production of statistics - Able to apply analytical skills and knowledge to implement and develop quality assurance processes.
Stakeholder engagement and communication - Ability to engage with a range of internal and external stakeholders, implementing a clear strategy to ensure that user requirements are understood and met.
Management of resources - Can manage resources across the branch and related areas to ensure outputs are delivered.
Analysis of data - Competent to analyse and interpret data in a wider economic context and link to relevant statistics across ESG.
Communication of statistics - Able to present to both internal and external stakeholders and adapt presentations depending on audience.
Leadership - Can be an effective role model (leads by example, is approachable, shows enthusiasm, challenges inappropriate behaviour).
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
The Office for National Statistics is part of the Civil Service, and as such we share a number of key benefits with other departments, whilst also having our own unique offerings to support our 5400 valued colleagues across the business.
Whether you are hearing about us for the first time or already know a bit about our organisation, we hope that the benefits pack attached (bottom of page) will give you a great insight into the benefits and facilities available to our colleagues, and our fantastic working culture.
Inclusion & Accessibility
At ONS we are always looking to attract the very best people from the widest possible talent pool, and we are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer. As a Disability Confident Leader we’re committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance.
If you would like an accessible version of any of the attachments or recruitment documents below or linked to in this advert, please contact the recruitment team who will be happy to assist.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
Security Clearance
For ONS the requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for 3 consecutive years immediately prior to applying and the department will consider eligibility by exception on a case-by-case basis. You will be asked to provide information regarding your UK residency during your application, and failure to provide this will result in your application being rejected.
If you are unsure that you meet the eligibility above, please read the information available on Gov.uk on this link, or contact the recruitment email on the advert before applying to discuss, as failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected and any offer of employment being withdrawn.
At the point of SC application, you will need to provide or give access to the following evidence:
- Departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and security records)
- UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records
- Your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency
- Security Services records
All applicants will have access to AI resources, it is therefore important to remember these tools, although helpful in streamlining the writing process, cannot fully understand the organisational context, or requirements for the role you are applying for.
To maintain authenticity and credibility of the application process, should you choose to use generative AI tools, you need to ensure the information you provide in your supporting evidence accurately reflects your skills, knowledge, and experience.
ONS does not advocate relying solely on generative AI to write your application. Doing so may negatively impact your chances of success during the selection process.
If you are invited to interview, please be aware the use of AI tools is prohibited and any suspected use may result in the termination of your interview and subsequent withdrawal from the campaign.
Please note that all campaigns may be subject to withdrawal at any stage if the internal resource position changes.
Application Process
Number of Stages: 2 stage process
Stage 1: Application
Stage 2: Interview
Stage 1 – Application
The assessment process at the application stage will be based on your work history, skills, experience, CV, and personal statement. It is important that your application is tailored to highlight the skills, knowledge, and experience relevant to the role.
If a personal statement is required at application stage, it will state the maximum wordcount allowed, which should not be exceeded. Where it is a requirement to make a personal statement, you should provide evidence for each essential skill criterion listed in the person specification. As these criteria are scored, it is advisable to give clear examples for each one, including the impact of your actions, ideally utilising the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result).
Please note that Success Profiles Behaviour examples are not required at this stage of the application process.
In instances where a high number of applications are received, the sift pass mark may be adjusted, and candidates will be invited to interview based on merit order, i.e., those with the highest scores.
Stage 2 – Interview
If invited to interview, you will be assessed using techniques aligned with the Civil Service Success Profiles framework, covering all behaviours listed in the job advert and any required technical skills.
- A presentation may be required at interview
- Interviews may be in person or via Microsoft Teams.
A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made.
The Sift will be conducted from wc 19/05/2025
Interviews will be conducted from wc 02/06/2025
For the full terms and conditions of the post, please see attachment.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Contact point for applicants
Job Contact
- Name : ONS Analytical Recruitment
- Email : ons.analytical.resourcing@ons.gov.uk
- Email : ons.analytical.resourcing@ons.gov.uk
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact recruitment.complaints@ons.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission
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