About the Team

The Labour Markets and Distributional Analysis (LMDA) team is a friendly team of outstanding analysts and policy makers. We seek to bring together an understanding of households’ living standards and position in the labour market, with key labour market policies, such as the National Living Wage and DWP active labour market programmes.

Our part of the team; the Equalities & Living Standards Analysis (ELSA) branch is made up of seven analysts. Our branch seeks to improve our understanding of policy impacts on different groups in society. We support policy development across HMT by leading on poverty, cost-of-living, general living standards-related analysis as well as equalities and disparities analysis.

We work jointly with the Distributional Analysis branch, which is made up of around seven analysts, who advise Ministers on how tax and spending decisions impact on households. We also work closely with Macroeconomic Coordination & Strategy in Economics Group on the Cost of Living, and with the Equalities Policy Branch in Public Spending Group on equalities analysis.

The post holder would potentially have the privilege of contributing to the Darlington office expansion, working closely with members of the team also based in Darlington, including one of the Directors of the Personal Tax, Welfare and Pensions group.

About the Job

In this role, you will:

• Develop and maintain ELSA’s poverty model on R
• Feed into advices where policy poverty impacts are required
• Lead engagement with relevant HMT policy colleagues and DWP analysts on poverty analysis and impacts of policies considered
• Support the development an expansion of beyond income Living Standards analysis (ex: Living Standards Index).
• Lead wider external engagement: you will lead on relevant debates, Freedom of Information requests, correspondence and parliamentary questions relating to poverty and living standards to answer the public questions.
• Influencing policy: you will lead ad-hoc analytical projects on different policy areas, ensuring that living standards and equalities considerations are fed into policy development and ministerial advice.
• Building strong relationships: you will build positive relationships across Treasury, other departments and beyond. This will help ensure our evidence and analysis is up-to-date and relevant to policy development.  

About You

The successful candidate will have the ability to analyse data and communicate analysis with impact. You will be able to communicate complex analysis powerfully to senior, non-technical customers who are interested in our work. You’ll build effective partnerships and relationships with a range of customers within the department and beyond to achieve tangible outcomes. Lastly you have the ability to deliver products and projects on time and to the highest analytical standards, whilst managing risks and balancing competing priorities.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28.97% Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at .uk.