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Locations: Sheffield, Manchester, Coventry, Bristol, Darlington, Nottingham
Number of positions available: 7
About DfE
Welcome and thank you for your interest in joining us at the Department for Education (DfE)
Join us and become part of a Department that is transforming the way it offers its services to make this an ever greater country in which children and young people grow and learn.
We are striving for world-class education, training, care for everyone whatever their background. For a more productive economy and so everyone has the chance to reach their potential and live a more fulfilled life.
Our Department is responsible for:
• teaching and learning for children in early years and primary schools and for young people under the age of 19 years in secondary schools and apprentices in further education;
• supporting professionals who work with children, young people and the education system; • helping disadvantaged children and young people to achieve more; • making sure that local services protect and support children; • teaching and learning at universities; • promoting lifelong learning and wider skills for an educated society; • creating and implementing equality strategy and legislation across government.
In the DfE we have a strong culture of inclusion and diversity and are committed to being an equal opportunities employer. We aim to develop all our staff to enable them to make a full contribution to meeting the Department's objectives, and to fulfil their own potential. We promote and
support the use of a range of flexible working patterns to help staff to balance home and work responsibilities and we treat people fairly irrespective of their working arrangements.
Social researchers in DfE
Government social researchers are responsible for using evidence to help inform and develop government policy. We use social scientific enquiry to measure, describe, explain and predict social and economic phenomena to policy makers and provide informative and timely briefing to ministers and policy makers. Within DfE this includes surveys, controlled trials, qualitative research, case studies, evidence reviews, analysis of administrative and statistical data and innovative methods such as social media analysis.
We have posts based in policy-facing divisions working, for example, on teacher workforce and initial teacher training, early years, families, schools, pupil health and wellbeing and special educational needs, as well as in central analytical teams working on cross-cutting issues and contributing to strategic ministerial priority projects.
You will use a range of research skills to influence policy development and delivery. This may include establishing and analysing surveys, conducting literature reviews, designing, delivering, or commissioning policy evaluations, conducting analysis of administrative or survey data, and working on large fascinating cohort studies such as the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England. You’ll be expected to develop influential relationships including with policy colleagues, other government analysts, and researchers external to government.
Social research community
You will be part of a community of around 100 government social researchers across DfE with a Social Research Head of Profession, networking and training opportunities. We offer managed moves between teams once you have some experience to help you develop your knowledge and skills.
Security Clearance, Basic
Contact point for further details
If you would like any further information, please contact [email protected]
Locations: Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-tyne, Sheffield.
Roles can be carried out from any of our five hub locations. The Department is committed to promoting flexible ways of working, whilst enabling the business to operate at maximum efficiency and will expect colleagues to work from both their hub location and possibly some time working at home, as required. The hub location will be the designated place of work and any remote or home working arrangement does not constitute a change to your designated place of work or contractual Terms and Conditions.
Number of positions available: 10
About DWPThe Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers a range of working age, pension age, disability and ill health benefits to around 22 million claimants and customers.
ResponsibilitiesWe are responsible for:
•understanding and dealing with the causes of poverty rather than its symptoms•encouraging people to work and making work pay•encouraging disabled people and those with ill health to work and be independent•providing a decent income for people of pension age and promoting saving for retirement•providing value for money and reducing levels of fraud and error
PrioritiesOur priorities are to:
•run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
•increase saving for, and security in, later life•create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children•deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants•deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase efficiency•Read our Single Departmental Plan to find out more about how we are performing against our objectives.
DWP Analytical Community (AC)The DWP Analytical Community is an excellent place to work and as one of the largest Analytical Communities in Government we can offer a wide variety of development, training and promotion opportunities. This includes new staff benefiting from a comprehensive induction programme to the Department, buddying and mentoring programmes, networks tailored to analytical professions, local community groups for Economists/Operational Researchers/Statisticians/Social Researchers and in-house analytical software training eg. SAS/Advanced Excel/R.
The Analytical Community at DWP comprises of around 700 analysts; made up of Economists, Statisticians, Operational Researchers, Social Researchers and data scientists who all work together to provide support, challenge and advice to colleagues and Ministers right across the Department, its delivery bodies and beyond.
DWP analytical roles are spread across all policy and operational areas and are often open to any of the analytical professions, offering analysts access to a wide range of analytical roles. A twice yearly internal managed move exercise provides the opportunity for staff to experience different roles for breadth, stretch or just a change. In addition, recruitment rounds offering promotion opportunities are held at least once a year allowing you to progress in your career when the time is right. There are also plenty of opportunities beyond the day job to undertake corporate activities, benefiting your own analytical profession or the Analytical Community as a whole.
Social Researchers in DWPDWP has an excellent reputation for ensuring its work is underpinned by robust evidence and analysis. Analysts work flexibly, in cross-site, multi-disciplinary teams across the organisation, both embedded within policy teams and also working in wider analytical teams, to develop DWP’s evidence base and provide analysis that supports key Departmental policies and projects.
The role of Social Researchers in DWP is to work collaboratively with colleagues across the Department (and beyond) to ensure evidence and research are embedded in the recommendations for future policy and delivery options. Social Researchers in DWP have the opportunity to:
• Undertake in-house qualitative research to inform policy and delivery choices. • Design, procure, commission and manage research and evaluation projects to drive forward the development of the
evidence, including evaluations of quantitative trials.
• Analyse and interpret quantitative data to answer critical evidence questions. • Review and synthesise the findings of existing national and international research studies, making links with external
academics and organisations. • Use and develop innovative methods to develop the evidence base, and provide new insights for policy development. • Play a critical role in gathering, analysing and interpreting information to inform evidence based policies. • Provide timely, relevant and robust briefing for policy colleagues and Ministers.
These posts are designed to place the successful candidates in the very heart of the Department’s critical work, providing the opportunity to develop their analytical skills to provide the best professional advice, and benefit from a strong focus on career and professional development.
Both the recent creation of a new in-house Social Research Team and the continued increasing demand for Social Researchers across DWP, makes it an exciting time to be joining DWP as a Social Researcher. We are looking for people who are keen to develop experience in designing, executing and analysing high quality research projects.
Security Clearance, Medical requirements, Nationality requirements details etc.
The Civil Service Nationality Rules are written into law, they are exempt from the Equality Act 2010 and must be followed. They outline who can and cannot work in the Civil Service including the Civil Service Fast Stream.
In summary from 1 January 2021 broadly the following groups will be able to work in the non-reserved posts within the Civil Service:
UK nationals
Nationals of Commonwealth countries
Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
EEA nationals with (or eligible for) status under the EUSS
Relevant EEA or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
Relevant EEA or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
Certain family members of the relevant EU and Turkish nationals
A reserved post can be filled only by UK Nationals. A non-reserved post is open to nationals from the countries and associations of countries outlined above. These are not reserved posts.
If you fail to follow these rules the appointment will be deemed illegal. Your appointee’s employment will be terminated with immediate effect.
The Government Recruitment Service check candidates against the nationality rules as part of the pre-employment.
Before the appointment of the successful candidate can be confirmed, the Department will undertake background security checks. As part of this, we will need to confirm your identity, employment history over the past three years (or course details if you were in education), nationality and immigration status, and criminal record (unspent convictions only).
All DWP employees and contractors (regardless of their contract type) must meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). This is a series of basic security checks to confirm identity, right to work in the UK, employment history and where relevant, details of any criminal record. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed.
All offers of employment are conditional on successful completion of BPSS. Candidates should not resign from their current job until these checks have been successfully completed.
More information about the vetting process can be found at the following link https :// www.gov.uk/government/organisations/united-kingdom- security-vetting
Further Location details (if relevant)
The DWP Analytical Community works using Microsoft Teams, telekits and video conferences so travel is not required regularly but some travel may be required occasionally between locations to attend meetings. Relocation costs will not be reimbursed
Contact point for further details
Joanne O’Shea: JOANNE.O'[email protected]
Locations: 2 posts: Stratford, Croydon or Manchester. 5 posts: Liverpool or Manchester.
Number of positions available: 7
About HMRC: HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) influences all aspects of society: alleviating child poverty; tackling climate change; making the UK economy a vibrant and attractive place to do business; understanding what drives taxpayer behaviour and, since the beginning of the COVID crisis, playing a central role in delivering key parts of the Chancellor’s economic support package.
HMRC’s vision is to be a trusted, modern tax and customs department that will fit with the way our customers run their businesses and their lives, reduce the tax gap, enhance the customer experience, keep costs down, and operate in a way that is recognised as fair. It means we’ll be on the side of our customers when they’re trying their best to get things right, while tackling the small minority who set out to cheat the system. It also means creating a great place to work in HMRC by nurturing a culture of respect for all our colleagues.
Overview of work area(s) (examples of work): HMRC is a mainstream Government Social Research (GSR) department with 100+ social research posts, from Research Officer to Senior Civil Service grades, working in multi-disciplinary analytical teams:
Compliance – Our work on tax compliance is split into two analytical teams: Compliance and Debt Operations, and Customer Compliance Strategy. These teams provide analysis across a wide range of compliance areas in HMRC: from analysis to recommend how and when HMRC intervenes with customers to understanding the overall impacts of those interventions on tax receipts and taxpayer behaviour. The team also provides analysis to influence and support HMRC’s strategy on offshore tax evasion and regularly publishes internationally acclaimed ‘tax gap’ analysis.
Business Taxes – We produce analysis for Ministers, HM Treasury and HMRC colleagues covering Corporation Tax for large businesses, including the banking sector, small business taxation issues and research to inform customs and tax policy around the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. We also produce influential analysis on VAT, stamp duties, excise duties (e.g. tobacco & alcohol), and environmental
and transport taxes (e.g. climate change levy, fuel duty). Finally, we are responsible for managing the department’s strategic programme of externally commissioned evaluations on tax reliefs.
Benefits and Credits – We deliver analysis and research on how to improve the operational delivery of tax credits and child benefit, and on policy reforms including transition of tax credits to Universal Credit.
Personal Taxes – We analyse the impacts of high-profile reforms to the tax system affecting millions of individuals in the UK, developing the evidence base for HM Treasury policy and producing advice for Ministers.
Operations, Strategy and Transformation – We deliver research and analysis for a wide range of HMRC areas including corporate functions, strategy and customer service delivery. We lead on cross-cutting HMRC operations and behavioural analysis and work flexibly to deliver priority projects. The four key priority analytical themes for the team are Customer and Strategy, Customer Service and Efficiency, People and Leadership and Making Tax Digital.
COVID Analysis Coordination and Evaluation – In response to the Coronavirus pandemic and the resulting UK lockdowns, a new deputy directorate has been established to undertake a wide range of COVID-related analysis. This includes analysis to advise policy design, monitoring and evaluation for the COVID schemes; additional forecasting and monitoring of revenues and benefits and credits payments; and analysis of the implications for HMRC’s compliance, debt and customer service activities.
Behaviour, Insight and Research – BIR is a large, multi-disciplinary insight function located in HMRC’s Customer Insight and Design Directorate responsible for the design of HMRC services and ensuring service change and transformation is based on high quality customer evidence. BIR has two social research teams, one focusing on in-house research and the other on externally contracted work. Researchers in BIR are primarily based in one or other of these teams but have the opportunity to deliver projects in both. Our research provides evidence to support service design and optimisation, HMRC strategy and communications, and understanding and improving trader experience at the UK Border.
HMRC Social Research community: There is a strong social research community across different parts of HMRC and among researchers based in London and the North-West, with regular meetings and networking events for the profession.
Opportunities for development: The social research profession in HMRC has a substantial presence in analytical teams facing all parts of the organisation. There is a strong emphasis on professional support, learning and development – all of which is focused on enabling staff to make an effective contribution and to help them reach their full potential. Regular rotation exercises mean researchers can have the opportunity to work in posts across many of our teams to build a breadth and depth of research experience and knowledge. To gain experience at senior officer level, there are also frequently advertised opportunities for temporary promotion.
Qualification details (if different) or further requirements beyond Main Stream advert (essential / desirable) for the role: N/A. Applicants must either be a member of the GSR profession or meet GSR minimum requirements re qualifications/experience.
Security Clearance, Medical requirements, Nationality requirements details etc: Security: Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check and meet the security requirements before they can be
appointed. People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks. Nationality requirements: This job is broadly open to the following groups: UK nationals; nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the
right to work in the UK; nationals of the Republic of Ireland; nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with (or eligible for) status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS); relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service; relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service; certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals. Further information on nationality requirements
Further Location details (if relevant): N/A
Contact point for further details: [email protected]
Locations: Central London, Croydon and Sheffield
Number of positions available: at least seven posts area available
About the Home Office
The Home Office is the lead government department for immigration and passports, crime, police, fire and counter terrorism. The issues the department deals with are significant, intellectually stimulating, often controversial and regularly at the top of the news. Social researchers work across these areas, alongside economists, statisticians and operational researchers to support policy and operational colleagues by ensuring a sound evidence base to inform the development and delivery of policy and front-line operations.
Our span of work opportunities
The following provides an outline of the types of work areas that could be available.
Large-scale Counter Terrorism research projects to provide evidence to inform strategic thinking, as well as responsive analysis and briefing for policy teams. Driven by the Government’s counter terrorism strategy, CONTEST the research is focused on how to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism, how to strengthen our protection and mitigate against terrorist attacks; as well as how to stop attacks in the first place.
Research and analysis for all areas of crime and policing policy covering a wide range of high-profile subject areas including police resources, substance abuse, crime patterns, domestic abuse, and violence.
The provision of objective and high-quality modelling, insightful primary research and evaluation, and professional economic analysis across the Borders, Immigration and Citizenship systems; the parts of Home Office responsible for managing migration, ensuring the safety and smooth running of our border, and issuing visas and passports. Proactively working with people to get to the heart of difficult problems and using specialist methodologies and skills to provide business solutions.
The development of research projects to support the fire reform and fire safety agendas – for example combining large national dataset to establish the relative risk of fire in different building types and understanding the circumstances of fires that lead to fatalities and casualties.
Research and Analysis to influence decision-making on all elements of migration and resettlement policy and operational practice and support the development of the future borders and immigration system. Typical kinds of research involve analysis of quantitative management information, literature reviews, and managing secondary and primary data collection.
Research and analysis on serious and organised crime covering drug trafficking, human trafficking, organised illegal immigration, high value fraud, counterfeiting, organised acquisitive crime and cyber-crime. The work ranges from large-scale research projects that provide evidence to inform strategic thinking, through to responsive analysis and briefing for policy teams.
Home Office Analysis and Insight
Home Office Analysis and Insight (HOAI) is part of the Science, Technology, Analysis, Research and Strategy Group, bringing together professional analysts from across the department into a single, customer-driven organisation. HOAI is headed by a Director of Analysis and Insight, serving the entire Department. It consists of 400+ analysts and four Deputy Directors responsible for the various analytical professions (Economics, Statistics, Operational and Social Research). We are working on the continued evolution of an innovative and dynamic organisation that works effectively as a whole. An important element of this is to strengthen our policy impact and public profile, embedding a critical understanding of analysis across all aspects of Home Office priorities, helping to deliver challenging objectives on crime, fire and policing, protecting the vulnerable, counter-terrorism, extremism, and borders and migration.
Developing your skills and career opportunities
As a government social research analyst, you will have the opportunity to develop existing and new skills. Within the Home Office we offer a variety of high-profile work requiring different skills and we will offer appropriate training to develop your skills and support you in undertaking the role. As a member of the GSR community we will also support your continued professional development through a range of social research
and wider developmental opportunities. Apart from the opportunity to progress within the Home Office, you will also have access to social research opportunities advertised across government departments.
Security Clearance
You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 5 years as these posts require security clearance at Security Check level.
Contact point for further details
Locations: TBC/London
Number of positions available: 1
About: We support the Prime Minister and ensure the effective running of government. We are also the corporate headquarters for government, in partnership with HM Treasury, and we take the lead in certain critical policy areas.
Cabinet Office is a ministerial department, supported by 25 agencies and public bodies.
Overview of work area(s)
The Evaluation Task Force (ETF) is a new unit set to drive continuous improvements in the way government programmes are evaluated in order to inform operational and spending decisions. The ETF will report to Cabinet Office and HM Treasury Ministers and will work closely with departments and HM Treasury spending teams.
Within the Cabinet Office the ETF will sit alongside the newly established Civil Service Modernisation and Reform team. The Civil Service Modernisation and Reform programme aims to shape the Civil Service to better deliver for citizens today and meet opportunities and challenges in order to deliver outstanding services in the future. We report directly to the Government Chief Operating Officer and Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office, Alex Chisholm.
The Chancellor announced a new Evaluation Task Force (ETF) in the November 2020 Spending Review. The ETF is intended to improve people’s lives by ensuring robust evidence on the effectiveness of policies and programmes sits at the heart of spending decisions. Its purpose is to drive continuous improvements in the way government programmes are evaluated in order to inform decisions on whether they should be continued, expanded, modified or stopped. These decisions should improve public service outcomes. Some should also lead to direct cost savings and/or enhanced revenues.
The Task Force will be a central unit reporting to Cabinet Office and HM Treasury Ministers and will work closely with departments and HM Treasury spending teams.
This is a critical role in the new Evaluation Task Force. The roles offer an unparalleled opportunity to shape a new team at the centre of government and drive a step change in evaluation, improving decision-making and outcomes for the public.
The main activities of the post holder will be:
• Support on providing advice and guidance to departments, and HMT on the best evaluation approaches Supporting the highest quality delivery of evaluation of a small number of complex, or priority programmes overseen by the ETF Tracking departmental evaluations, pushing for timely publication and transparency. Maintaining a public register of trial protocols and evaluation plan summaries Horizon scanning/departmental liaison for important evaluation publications Create engaging ETF sharable content/links to resources
Evaluation Taskforce
Opportunities for Development (rotations, line management, training, S-level promotion opportunities?) Line management opportunities may be available of interns that join the team. There are two S level posts within the taskforce, so promotion opportunities may become available within the team. The team itself is in the heart of government, and promoting the use of randomised controlled trials and cutting edge evaluation design so regular opportunity for methods training is available, as well as opportunities to develop soft skills, and access a number of internal courses, groups and training events hosted by the Cabinet Office.
Qualification details (if different) or further requirements beyond Main Stream advert (essential / desirable) for the role. n/a
Security Clearance, Medical requirements, Nationality requirements details etc. SC clearance required (the rest is the standard nationality requirements)
Further Location details (if relevant): The Cabinet Office is currently reviewing its location strategy so a number of possible locations may be available for this post, although regular travel to London will be required.
Contact point for further details: Catherine Hutchinson [email protected]
Locations: London & Darlington
Number of positions available: 2
The Department for International Trade (DIT) helps businesses export, drives inward and outward investment, negotiates market access and trade deals, and champions free trade. We are an international economic department, responsible for:
supporting and encouraging UK businesses to drive sustainable international growth ensuring the UK remains a leading destination for international investment and maintains its number one position for international
investment stock in Europe opening markets, building a trade framework with new and existing partners which is free and fair using trade and investment to underpin the government’s agenda for a Global Britain and its ambitions for prosperity, stability and
security worldwide.
Join us as we build the United Kingdom’s future as a trading nation.
Find out more about DIT and what we do on our GOV.uksite or follow us on Twitterand LinkedIn.
Overview of work area(s)
We lead on the development of programmes of research and Monitoring, Evaluation to support our priority areas. Some examples of our work include:
The National Survey of Registered Businesses and the Public Attitudes to Trade
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/dit-national-survey-of-registered-businesses-exporting-behaviours-attitudes-and-needs-2020
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dit-national-survey-of-registered-businesses-exporting-behaviours-attitudes-and-needs-2018
Tracker of public attitudes towards trade and government trade policy:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/public-attitudes-to-trade-tracker
International surveys such as the International traders and investors study:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2018-international-traders-and-investors-study
Segmentation and the use of innovative approaches and qualitative research to develop ‘Personas’ in the first segmentation study of the UK businesses with regards to exporting:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/segmentation-of-uk-businesses-research
The Department also commissions many qualitative studies to understand international businesses views and needs and to support evaluation and understand how products to support businesses are working and how they could be improved.
GSR community
We are a community of around 30 GSR members.
Opportunities for Development (rotations, line management, training, S-level promotion opportunities?)
The GSR Strategy for DIT has a very dynamic and ever evolving L&D strand.
Contact point for further details
