Ukspf Evaluation and Data Research Officer - London, United Kingdom - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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- £30,792-
Job grade:
  • Higher Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • Local Growth, Funding Design and Analysis
    Type of role:
  • Social Research
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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  • London, WolverhamptonAbout the job

Job summary:


The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) is the lead department for governments hugely important and high profile Levelling Up agenda.


This is a very exciting time to join the department as we are at the heart of the government's central mission, driving forward a programme of tangible improvements in every part of the country as we build back better from the pandemic, and deliver on the people's priorities.


Job description:

Analysis and Data Directorate is headed by DLUHC's Chief Analyst and

Chief Economist:
who is personally committed to Evaluation of DLUHC's core programmes and policies.

The Directorate contains over 200 analysts and other staff providing high quality analytical advice to Ministers, the Executive Team and policy and corporate colleagues across all aspects of the Department's business.

Our analysts are responsible for statistics, data collection, data analysis and science, research, economic analysis and modelling, evaluation and thought leadership across all DLUHC policy areas.


The Local Growth Analysis (LGA) Evaluation team is a multi-disciplinary team of economists, social researchers and statisticians working across both BEIS and DLUHC.

The team provides high quality, innovative evaluation and analysis across a wide range of DLUHC policies focused on local economic growth, including the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, Levelling-up Fund, Towns Fund, Future High Streets Fund, Freeports Fund, the impact of Covid-19 on local economies, impact of EU exit on local economies, and monitoring and evaluation of local growth policies.

We play an instrumental role in the delivery of the government's agenda on Levelling up local economic growth across the UK.


We offer a fast-moving, friendly and intellectually stimulating environment, where you can make a real contribution to maintaining this high quality evidence base used for formulating government policy.

We take the development of our people very seriously, equipping and enabling them to make an impact by ensuring high quality evidence and analysis are at the heart of policy-making.

We are committed to good management and professional development of staff. We actively promote learning and development, and also have an exceptional bursary training opportunity to support post graduate study.


The role.


Ever wanted to be at the forefront of developing an innovative new package of evaluations which will be at the heart of levelling up across HMG? Really getting to understand what's happening across localities in the UK, understanding the impacts of levelling up expenditure - at national, regional, local authority and even smaller scales.

And helping to understand what works in local economic growth.

This is the post for you if you've an interest in innovative evaluation and creative use of data.

Working with DCMS, OGDs, local authorities, What Works Growth and many other stakeholders, we're developing an innovative new approach to understanding the effectiveness of UK Shared Prosperity Fund investment across the UK - a core part of the £25M UKSPF evaluation Strategy.

This drives our understanding of interventions which work (and don't work), which is crucial to target future local growth expenditure by HMG and local areas.


Person specification:


Key responsibilities will include:


  • Designing impact and process level evaluations for UKSPF interventions and place level casestudies.
  • Working with evaluation surveys team to ensure UKSPF surveys address key evaluation issues and data is appropriate for surveys.
  • Working with monitoring and secondary administrative data, to ensure this feeds into the evaluation and is of sufficient quality.
  • Working with local authorities, evaluation contractors and DWP / HMRC on data matching to understand longer term intervention impacts.
  • Project management of evaluation projects, working closely with evaluation contractors to ensure the work addresses key policy issues and is high quality evaluation.
  • Working with key stakeholders, incl UKSPF Policy, DCMS, Levelling Up, Other Government Departments and local authorities to ensure core priorities are addressed.

Key skills

  • Experience of working in applied policy analysis in which strong analytical skills have been clearly demonstrated.
  • Strong technical knowledge and experience of designing and running impact evaluations, ideally using a range of methods.
  • The ability to manage the collection of data that is fit fo
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