Student Placement - London, United Kingdom - Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Salary:

- £22,440 - £25,900

National: £22,440 London: £25,900
Job grade:
Administrative Officer
Contract type:
Fixed Term
Length of employment:
12 Months
Business area:
BEIS
Trade, International, the Union & Analysis
Analysis Directorate
Type of role:
Analytical
Statistics
Working pattern:
Fulltime
Number of jobs available:
3Contents

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London, SalfordAbout the job

Job summary:

Our Mission
At BEIS, we are leading the UK's recovery from coronavirus and are building a stronger, greener country. Our varied work makes a real difference to people across the UK and internationally. This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of the BEIS team and our exciting mission

We lead on the UK's commitments to tackle climate change and drive green economic growth. We support businesses to create jobs and increase opportunity in regions across the UK. We also encourage investment and innovation to make the UK a science superpower producing research that will improve lives.

Our Inclusive Environment

We are building an inclusive culture to make BEIS a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves.

We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.

We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension.

We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer.

We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.

Job description:

Would you like to learn more about energy?
The Energy Statistics team in BEIS is offering exciting opportunities for university students completing a UK undergraduate degree with placement year. Never before has energy and climate change been more in the public light and at the centre of government policy. As part of the Energy Statistics team you will work with hardworking statisticians providing data and evidence on energy to support government policy making and monitoring. We are also responsible for meeting international data reporting requirements, supporting Departmental work to advise and brief Ministers and senior officials, and responding to parliamentary questions and public correspondence about energy information.
This role is only open to undergraduate students for whom this placement forms part of their degree course, e.g. students currently in the second year of a threeyear course with a placement year.

Person specification:

Analysing electricity generation data for regular publications relating to the security of electricity supply and developing analysis to further the inclusion of renewable generation types.
Collecting and analysing oil and gas data, with a focus on helping manage the UK's emergency oil stockholding system and providing policymakers with data and analysis to support evidencebased decision making.
Collecting and analysing data on domestic energy bills, monitoring the impact of consumers switching between energy suppliers and other analysis on the prices paid by industry and households for fuel & energy in the United Kingdom.
Analysis of households who are living in fuel poverty to identify the most vulnerable households living in inefficient homes enabling resources to be targeted to upgrading these.

Placement students are also given the opportunity to write and contribute to published articles in these areas of work, and to contribute to development of code-based production systems.

Further information on these statistics can be found on the team's webpage using the link here
Please let us know if you have an interest in one of the areas above. There are no guarantees that students are placed according to their area of interest, however, we will certainly take this into consideration.
Skills and Experience
Sound analytical skills, along with a grasp of descriptive and inferential statistics;
Interpersonal and team working skills;
An ability to work accurately without the need for supervision on some projects; and
Demonstrate strong initiative to learn and use new skills rapidly to complete a project or task.

Desirable experience

Experience writing code to manipulate data and/or carry out statistical analysis using Python/SQL/SAS/R or another relevant language

Qualification Requirements
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Technical skill

To be assessed:
Statistics - Data Analysis and descriptive statistics link here

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