Senior Researcher - Glasgow, United Kingdom - Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office

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Glasgow, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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- £38,046 - £41,053

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Senior Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
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The Equality Hub
Social Mobility Commission
Type of role:
Analytical
Social Research
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
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Job summary:

The Social Mobility Commission (SMC) is seeking a Senior Researcher to join our successful secretariat team on a permanent basis as soon as possible.

The Social Mobility Commission is a non-departmental public body that is sponsored by the Cabinet Office. We have a responsibility to monitor the Government's progress on social mobility, to improve and advocate social mobility.

The Senior Researcher reports to the Head of Analysis and carries out research, and analysis influencing social mobility.

The secretariat is made up of four teams: Senior Leadership, Evidence & Analysis, Policy, Government & Parliament, Stakeholder Management and External Affairs and Operations, Coordination & Governance.

The Senior Researcher sits within the Evidence & Analysis team.

The post holder will work closely with the Evidence and Analysis team.

The role will involve a blend of new evidence generation to align with policy interests, rapid reviews of evidence, original statistical analysis, and designing and managing commissioned research, all with the aim of influencing policy on social mobility in the UK.

Job description:

As Senior Researcher your role is likely to require you to:

Manage and contribute to quantitative and qualitative research projects that enable the SMC to make timely, evidence-based judgements and deliver on our objectives.
Draw out and critique key findings from existing literature to help inform policy positions and scope potential new areas for the SMC to focus on
Build the evidence base for policy areas, working closely with analysts from other professions.
Present evidencebased findings to Commissioners and others, and be comfortable with both written and oral presentation.
Produce descriptive and inferential statistics from large datasets such as the Labour Force Survey or Understanding Society
Oversee the analysis of research projects which use techniques such as econometrics (regression analysis) and causal inference to study the relationship of variables of interest on social mobility.
Work directly with external academics and researchers to help scope, deliver and QA a range of research projects.
Develop a range of reports and dashboards that utilise current statistical and analytical methods.

Person specification:

Essential Skills

Experience and proficiency with data analysis software, (preferably R, but any including Python, STATA etc).
Experience supporting the management of commissioned research or analytical projects.
A strong understanding of descriptive statistics, regression analysis techniques and causal inference (or econometrics) and be able to implement these and /or critique literature using these methods.
Good knowledge of main qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Ability to produce descriptive and inferential statistics, and visualisations from large datasets such as the Labour Force Survey or Understanding Society.
Managing wider stakeholder relationships with, for example, academia in order to enable the Commission to stay up to date with the most recent research and evidence
Working with a range of teams to deliver work with impact and at pace.
Communicating technical concepts relating to the analysis of work. This would be to a wide range of technical and nontechnical audiences, including the senior team.
Experience quality assuring analytical outputs, such as analytical scripts and/or charts, figures, tables in reports.

Desirable criteria

Demonstrable research and analytical expertise in areas related to core areas of social mobility early years, families, education, higher and further education, employment, economy and enterprise.
Ability to work at pace across simultaneous work areas, and adapt as needed to meet changing demands.
Ability to collaborate with nonanalysts to provide high quality advice and messaging, ensuring it is evidencebased.

Behaviours:

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

Managing a Quality Service
Delivering at Pace
Working Together
Communicating and Influencing

Benefits:

Alongside your salary of £38,046, Cabinet Office contributes £10,272 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 flexibl