Analyst (HEO)

The Office for Equality and Opportunity (OEO) sits at the heart of the Cabinet Office, leading on some of the government's top priorities.
The OEO consists of the Women & Equality Unit, the Disability Unit and the Race Equality Unit, which look after different portfolios working to Equalities Ministers based in various Departments led by Bridget Phillipson as Minister for Women & Equalities. The Social Mobility Commission secretariat also sits within the OEO and reports to the Social Mobility Commissioners.
Amongst the OEO’s current priorities are:
+ Ensuring that equalities are at centre of the cross- government work to develop and deliver all the Government’s Missions including the Opportunity Mission led by Minister Phillipson as both SoS Education and Minister for Women & Equalities;
+ Leading work across government to tackle race inequality;
+ Extending gender pay gap reporting requirements, introducing ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting and extending the right to equal pay to ethnic minorities and disabled people;
+ Championing the rights of disabled people and working with them, so that their views and voices are at the heart of all that government does;
+ Ensuring all LGBT+ people are safe, included, and protected from discrimination including by delivering a full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices and also taking wider steps to improve trans equality;
+ Improving the evidence base about equalities., In this exciting analyst post in the award-winning Equality Data and Analysis Division (EDAD) you will be part of a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with other analytical professions to share skills, knowledge and resources. Working closely with the policy team, you will develop and produce insightful policy-relevant analysis.
Ethnicity Facts and Figures is one of the most prominent public facing outputs of the Office for Equality and Opportunity. The regular updating and maintenance of the Ethnicity Facts and Figures is a substantial programme of work that will use your data management, coding and analytical skills. You will develop strong working relationships with data providers (other government departments) to ensure the Ethnicity Facts and Figures website is updated in a timely way.
Roles and Responsibilities
+ Updating and maintaining the data presented on the Ethnicity Facts and Figures (EFF), by collaborating with the digital team and other government departments
+ Working at pace on multiple measures presented on EFF at the same time
+ Using coding skills in R or Python to perform quantitative data analysis and for processing the data files for EFF, through a Reproducible Analytical Pipeline (RAP) developed in R
+ Ability to reprioritise work to occasionally deliver on ad hoc work priorities from the policy colleagues or elsewhere within the Equality data and Analysis division
+ Occasionally support with possible Ministerial briefings on ethnicity and race
You will also contribute towards the corporate responsibilities in the Equality data and Analysis division and more widely within the Office for Equality and Opportunity, This post has been filled by GSS/GSR/GES badged analysts in the past and the preference is for an analyst from one of these analytical professions.
However, consideration would be given to a sufficiently numerate candidate with sound statistical knowledge with badging desirable rather than mandatory.
In your application, please state if you are a member of one of these professions:
+ Government Statistician Group (GSG):
+ Government Social Research Service (GSR)
+ Government Economics Group (GES)
Additional information:
A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace. Although requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance.

Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Changing and Improving
+ Managing a Quality Service
+ Seeing the Big Picture

Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
+ Data and Analysis Provide an example when you have demonstrated your data and analysis skills to present a complex analysis to a non technical audience. Assess at application and interview.At the application stage through a 500 word example., Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.
Any move to Cabinet Office from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
A reserve list will be held for a period of 12 months, from which further appointments can be made.
If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out., o UK nationals
o nationals of the Republic of Ireland
o nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
o nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
o nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
o individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
o Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

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+ Strong written and verbal communication skills, sharing insights with internal and external stakeholders
+ Strong analytical and problem solving skills
+ A proven ability of working collaboratively across teams to seek new opportunities to add value and provide a quality service to both internal and external customers.
+ Understanding of different data sources (e.g. surveys and administrative data), how to assess their quality and recommend how that quality might be improved.
+ Working with analytical software such as R or Python and the ability to use coding and programming skills for data analysis.
+ Building strong working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, policy and digital colleagues and other government departments
+ Delivering at pace and ability to work efficiently to demanding and conflicting deadlines and adapting to changing priorities, Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Alongside your salary of £36,728, Cabinet Office contributes £10,640 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 flexible working options.
+ A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
+ A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and employer contributions of 28.97%.
+ A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.