GES Sandwich Student Placement 2025-2026

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Communicating and Influencing
+ Working Together
+ Managing a Quality Service
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
+ Communicating and Influencing
+ Working Together, This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Ability, Experience and Technical skills.
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Communicating and Influencing
+ Working Together
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
+ UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ 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)
+ 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)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

This scheme is open to students in their penultimate year of undergraduate study and who are on course for a 2:1 or 1st class degree, as indicated by exam results from previous years.
Applicants must be studying for:
• A degree in economics or, if it is a joint degree, economics must comprise at least 50% of the total course studied so far (year 1 and 2),
• A joint honours undergraduate degree at a Scottish university, where at least 50% of the modules studied/to be studied during the final two years of the course must be in economics,
• Philosophy Politics and Economics (PPE) degree where at least 50% of the modules studied/to be studied during the final two years of the course must be in economics.
All degrees must include Macro and Microeconomics., • Able to conduct data analysis using MS Excel and other statistical software
• Able to contribute to economic briefings
• Able to contribute to economic analysis
• Able to conduct economic data gathering
• Able to communicate complex analysis in non-technical language to colleagues with different professional backgrounds, This scheme is open to economic undergraduate students in their penultimate year (i.e. year before the final year of undergraduate study) who are on course for a 2:1 or 1st class degree, as demonstrated by their first year exam results.
Applicants must be studying for:
• A degree in economics or, if it is a joint economics degree, economics must comprise at least 50% of the total course studied so far (year 1 and 2), or
• A joint economics honours undergraduate degree at a Scottish university, where at least 50% of the modules studied/to be studied during the final two years of the course must be in economics, or
• Philosophy Politics and Economics (PPE) degree where at least 50% of the modules studied/to be studied during the final two years of the course must be in economics.
All degrees must include Macro and Microeconomics.

£22,699
Minimum of £22,699 national locations / minimum of £26,500 in London. Please see attached job description pack for specific departmental salary information.
GBP, + 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 employer contribution of 28.97%