Head of Local Government Area Costs and - London, United Kingdom - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

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- £49,697- £54,632 (London) £49,697 (National)
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Grade 7
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
Analysis and Data
Type of role:
Economist
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Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
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Darlington, London, WolverhamptonAbout the job

Job summary:

There are two Economic Advisor posts available; Head of Local Government Area Costs and Distribution Analysis and Head of Local Authority Financial Risk and Sustainability Analysis.

Both posts are high profile economics roles within Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) offering the opportunity to lead influential pieces of economic analysis in the area of local government finance where annual expenditure is around £60bn.

The posts sit within the Local Policy Analysis (LPA) Division within the Analysis and Data Directorate of DLUHC. LPA is a multi-disciplinary team of around 36 economists, statisticians, operational and social researchers.

LPA plays an instrumental role in the delivery of local public services with its analysis playing a critical role in the design and delivery of local government finance policies.

LPA's analysis is continuously in demand from senior officials, Ministers and other government departments.

Examples of the division's work include:

Leading analysis on central government measures to support local government in response to Covid19;
Leading analysis on the review of local authority relative need and the distribution of new funding;
Leading the analysis of local government funding need for the Spending Review including analysing future spending pressure faced by local government and what the potential funding need is for local government over the spending review period;
Leading the analysis on local authority financial risk and sustainability; and
Leading the analysis of policy options and modelling for the annual Local Government Finance Settlement.

Head of Local Government Area Costs and Distributional Analysis

The postholder will lead analysis on the variation in local authority costs, particularly wage and rental costs, and the construction of the Area Cost Adjustment (ACA) which is used in funding formulas to distribute local government resources.

The postholder will also lead on equalities analysis, value for money analysis of any future local government restructuring and the development of appraisal methods to help assess the value for money of local government finance policy options.

Head of Local Authority Financial Risk and Sustainability Analysis
The postholder will lead analysis on local authority financial risk and sustainability.

The postholder will lead on producing projections of future local authority expenditure pressure and advising senior officials and Ministers on the potential impact potential policy options have on sector-wide and individual local authority financial risk.

The postholder will also lead the economic analysis of local authority capital spending including work on commercial activity and its potential implications.

Job description:

Head of Local Government Area Costs and Distributional Analysis
The postholder will be responsible for leading a small team of an Assistant Economist and Economic Apprentice to deliver influential analysis on several high profile workstreams including:

Leading the equalities analysis of local government finance policy options. Local government services have significant impacts on people and places and understanding how policy choices impact on people is crucial. The postholder can expect to lead all equalities analysis of local government finance policy options to help inform decisions including at fiscal events and for the high profile Local Government Finance Settlement.
Leading value for money analysis with respect to any future local government restructuring. This includes leading on the economic appraisals of any future proposals.

The postholder will line manage an Assistant Economist and an Economic Apprentice who will support the postholder on the above workstreams.

The postholder can also expect to task manage other analysts within the division on particular projects.

Head of Local Authority Financial Risk and Sustainability Analysis
The postholder will be responsible for leading a small team of two Assistant Economists to deliver influential analysis in the area of local authority financial risk and sustainability

They will lead on:

Analysing sectorwide local authority financial risk. The postholder will have responsibility for the development of models capable of describing past trends in local authority financial sustainably, projecting future trends in financial risk and sustainability and examining the impact of different policy options on local aut