Children's Services Higher Statistical 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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Salary:

- £30,792-
Job grade:
  • Higher Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • Analysis and Data
    Type of role:
  • Analytical
  • Statistics
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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About the job


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Location

  • Darlington, London, WolverhamptonAbout the job

Job summary:


The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) is responsible for ensuring a strong and sustainable local government sector.

Children's Services forms one of the largest areas of local government expenditure and decisions in this area directly affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of children and young people each year.

You will be working on analysis related to the financing of Children's Services. The post sits within the Local Policy Analysis (LPA) division of DLUHC.

LPA is a friendly division of around 40 economists, statisticians, operational and social researchers working on a range of areas related to local government finance, communities and integration.

We take the development and support of our members very seriously.


You will have the opportunity to:

  • bring new ideas and techniques and shape the direction of your own work
- use and develop your R coding and dashboard skills with full training available
- develop your communication skills in a role that will require you to build strong relationships with policy colleagues and other departments, notably the Department for Education (DfE).


Job description:


Key responsibilities:


  • Collate, synthesise and critically analyse data and evidence on Children's Services financing, activity and outcomes, including the reconciliation of data collected by DLUHC with data from other government departments.
  • Deliver briefings and adhoc analysis, working closely with policy teams to deliver to tight timeframes.
  • Work closely with internal policy colleagues and other government departments, including DfE, in preparation for Spending Reviews and Local Government Finance Settlements.
  • Provide high quality analysis to support the Department's interests in reforms to Children's Social Care, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) systems and Childcare and the impacts on local government sustainability.
  • Improve and develop new analytical tools, enabling officials to better interpret and utilise relevant data.

Person specification:


Essential criteria:


  • Ability to deliver analysis to tight deadlines with considerations for user needs, methods used and quality assurance to ensure outputs are accurate.
  • Strong technical skills, including an aptitude for quantitative analysis and dashboard development.
  • Ability to critically assess data and evaluate other organisations' analysis.
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate technical analysis to nonspecialists.
  • Ability to work independently, and collaboratively within and across projects to prioritise tasks and share knowledge.
  • Good project and time management skills.

Desirable criteria:


  • Experience in Excel, R and PowerBI; however full training will be provided.

Benefits:


  • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible working options
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
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Selection process details:


We are for everyone

We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.

We are for everyone
DLUHC want to bring in and bring on a diverse workforce at all levels.


Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors.

- that the assessor won't be reading your answers sequentially.
- do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.

If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on)

The deadline for completing the GSS online test is
23:55 on Monday 14th of August

How to apply:


Step 1:


  • Complete your personal details on CS Jobs

Step 2 - Complete the Government Statistical Service test by
23:55 pm on 14th of August
When you are invited to complete the online tests you will be given access to guidance. It is strongly recommended that you read this guidance before you proceed.


These tests are not timed; however, it is advised that you allow for up to an hour for completion of each test.

Technical (lead criteria)

  • Write about a time when you had to analyse an existing data source and present your findings to meet the needs of your customer.
You should refer to the professional GSG
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