Ai Impact and Evaluation Lead - London, United Kingdom - Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £53,400 - £85,600

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Grade 7
Contract type:
Fixed term
Loan
Secondment
Length of employment:
20 month fixed term contract, this will be a 22 month contract for those who are transferring from another government department

Business area:

CO
Delivery Group
Type of role:
Analytical
Digital
Economist
Operational Research
Social Research
Statistics
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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Location

Bristol, Glasgow, London, Manchester, YorkAbout the job

Job summary:

About the team
The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.
AI) - is an AI for public good programme to harness the opportunities presented by AI to improve the lives of citizens. It focuses on a number of priority projects in home affairs, health, education and government efficiency projects. The i.
AI team uses ethical and secure methods at all times to help deliver better public services.

Building on the work of No10 Data Science Team (10DS) and other leading technology teams across the civil service, i.

AI will experiment and prove what is possible in improving the use of AI across the government. It was recently announced that i.

AI will expand a further 40 roles to build a scale up function, which will take successful incubated projects into production.

You can see more about our work on

i.

AI's
Impact and Evaluation team will build their work into each stage of product development, from scoping, to incubation, and onwards to scaling.

Team members will embed into product development teams, designing and delivering of randomised control trials, impact evaluations, and qualitative studies primarily into the efficiency and quality impacts of our AI products.

Job description:

Role Responsibilities

Embedding impact and evaluation into products from the very start and throughout the development cycle
Building evidenceled and datadriven cases for i.

AI funding bids in processes such as Budgets or Spending Reviews

Conducting data analysis, drawing insights and recommendations and presenting them stakeholders

Person specification:

Experience of designing, leading and delivering research, from a relevant discipline such as an economist, behavioural scientist, or a social scientist
Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to synthesise complex information and draw insights from data
Ability to engage and influence others at various levels of seniority to maximise the impact of research studies
Knowledge of either quantitative and/or qualitative research design, methods and analysis
Ability to work collaboratively and across disciplines, and maintain strong working relationships with a broad range of individuals
Ability to communicate research for varied audiences, using different media/formats e.g. technical reports; presentations; webbased tools
Nonessential but beneficial: experience of leading on costbenefit analysis and policy appraisal in line with the Green Book

Technical Skills:

Needs to be/become DDAT/badged Economist/Social Researcher/Statistician/Operational Researcher
Indepth expertise of a number of commonly used evaluation methods
Experimental and quasiexperimental methods are particularly desirable
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to communicate technical information on evaluations to nonspecialists in ways that are easily understood
Strong ability to articulate the value of evaluating products to a broad range of stakeholders
Coding ability in python or similar languages are not essential but would be beneficial

Additional information:

A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace. Although requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance.

Behaviours:

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

Communicating and Influencing
Seeing the Big Picture
Making Effective Decisions

Technical skills:

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

Benefits:

Alongside your salary of £53,400, Cabinet Office contributes £14,418 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Learning and development tailored to your role.
An environment with flexible working options.
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%.
A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum