Operational Researcher - London, United Kingdom - Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £31,884 - £39,587

London: £35,038 £39,587, National: £31,884 £36,024 plus £4,000 analyst allowance
Job grade:
Higher Executive Officer

Senior Executive Officer

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Contract type:
Fixed Term
Loan
Length of employment:
2 Years
Business area:
DCMS
Digital Infrastructure
Type of role:
Analytical
Operational Research
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
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Belfast, Darlington, London, ManchesterAbout the job

Job summary:

The Romans built roads, the Victorians canals and railways.
Putting in place the right digital infrastructure across the country is an equally big challenge for our time, and a top priority for the government.
The Digital Infrastructure directorate leads on making this happen setting policies to promote investment and protect national security, whilst running innovative pilot programmes for the next generation of technology.
We play a leading role across government, delivering new commercial deals, policy and legislation, and work closely with No.10, Cabinet Office, HM Treasury and key Whitehall delivery departments as well as industry, Ofcom and international partners to achieve our goals.

Job description:

Thank you for your interest in the role of Digital Infrastructure operational researcher.

The analyst team works directly with the policy teams in developing and quantifying effective policy interventions, feeding in evidence, providing insight and assessing impact throughout.

We track and predict fixed network rollout and quantify its benefits to society.

If you are inquisitive and excited about digital infrastructure, and passionate about helping the UK's world-leading digital economy continue to grow, then we would love to hear from you.

Knowledge or experience of digital or technology policy is desirable but not essential.

Person specification:

The post holder will have responsibility for

Ensuring updates of data are incorporated in a timely fashion to our extensive databases using a range of tools, including R and SQL.
Maintaining and developing interactive dashboards and tools to showcase our data and the impact of our policies through detailed maps and charts. There is scope for the role holder to be imaginative and experimental here
Engaging senior decision makers with delivery complexities highlighted in the data
Ensuring commercially sensitive data is handled in accordance with a variety of data sharing agreements and nondisclosure agreements
Liaising with counterparts in telecoms operators to ensure we receive build progress updates promptly
Working with the team to continuously improve data standards to ensure the quality of underlying data is properly caveated and understood
Working with delivery teams to ensure information is applied consistently
Working with the rest of the modelling team to ensure data is fit for purpose to feed modelling in support of submissions and business cases on UK connectivity
Responding to requests for information about UK and local coverage

Essential Requirements:

Delivering at pace: Take responsibility for delivering timely and quality results with focus and drive.
Communicating and influencing: Have strong communication skills and the ability to help communicate technical analysis effectively to nonexperts
Managing a quality service: Be able to develop, implement and maintain and review systems and services (e.g. data sets and provision of analysis). Involve a diverse range of colleagues and stakeholders in developing suggestions for improvements
Coding and data analysis: Experience of using a programming language such as SQL, R or Python to collate, clean and analyse complex data to produce usable insights

Desirable Skills:

A track record of working closely with policy and analysis colleagues and in putting analytical work into a policy context.
A collaborative approach to sharing experience, expertise and findings across organisational boundaries as appropriate
Experience using the Google Cloud Platform and Google Data Studio
Experience analysing geospatial data and producing visualisations such as maps

Behaviours:

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Delivering at Pace
Communicating and Influencing
Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills:

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

GORS: Achieving impact with analysis

Benefits:

DCMS values its staff and offers a wide range of benefits to everyone who works here. We're committed to developing talent, and supporting colleagues to have great careers in our department.

To support with that, some of the benefits we offer include: