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Position Summary:
We have 16 SEO analyst roles available across Analytical Priority Projects, Criminal Justice Business Partnering, Better Outcomes through Linked Data (BOLD) programme and Tribunals and Civil Business Partnering.
We have provided descriptions of the current SEO analytical roles available, however we are not asking you to select which role you are interested in at this stage. Should you be successful following an interview we will provide an opportunity to select which roles you are and are not interested in. You will then be allocated a role accordingly.
Key Responsibilities:
- The Analytical Priority Projects unit undertakes analytical projects that support the department to respond to complex problems and emerging issues. The post holder will work on a variety of high-profile, fast-paced analytical projects, with exposure to senior stakeholders. Projects are varied and involve a range of different analytical methods, giving opportunity to apply existing expertise, build new skills and test innovative approaches. Current projects relate to the Deputy Prime Minister’s priorities, and involve statistical analysis, coding, survey design and evaluation (2 role).
- The Prison Estate Strategy and Contingencies team (1 role) works closely with Future Prison Policy and HMPPS to understand the short-term pressure on the estate, contingency options and longer-term strategy and needs of the prison estate. The team is responsible for a quarterly prison place projection which supports the departmental priority of capacity planning. You will work closely with modelling and data science colleagues to develop effective approaches to communicate implications to HMT and senior stakeholders.
- Within this role you will have the opportunity to work strategically with a range of stakeholders to inform options; develop existing models and build new ones to deliver the prison estate capacity projection and related scenarios; and take a lead in working collaboratively with other analysts and with stakeholders to understand assumptions and communicate analysis effectively.
- Justice Data Lab (2 roles) helps provide evidence on what works to achieve reducing reoffending, a key priority of the MoJ. You’ll lead evaluations of rehabilitative interventions to assess whether they significantly reduce reoffending among participants, in comparison to a control group. You will undertake a lead analytical role, developing methods to produce high quality impact evaluations to assess the effectiveness, or otherwise, of the interventions provided to offenders, including a suite of accredited offender behaviour programmes.
- You will be expected to include liaising directly with operational colleagues and external providers on all aspects of data collection and interpretation of results to a non-technical audience.
- The Offender Health Projects team (1 role) provides the opportunity to work closely with Health and Justice stakeholders across Government to lead the delivery of a programme of analytical work. This is an important analytical role to support the monitoring of Community Sentence Treatment Requirements (CSTRs). CSTRs aim to address underlying health needs (alcohol, drugs or mental health) related to offending behaviour, supporting a governmental priority to reduce reoffending. This role involves data manipulation and maintenance of a dashboard, as well as ensuring findings from data are communicated effectively. By assisting with data requests from a range of stakeholders, including operational and policy colleagues across Health and Justice, this role will provide valuable analytical insight to improve treatment delivery and outcomes.
- The Prison Safety and Environmental Surveillance (PSES) team (2 roles) works on projects that build understanding of issues around violence and self-harm, and recently also focusing on COVID-19. We focus on the key questions raised by our stakeholders across MoJ and HMPPS and use innovative analysis to answer them. Key responsibilities include innovative analytical project work to inform improvements to safety and security in prisons and innovative analytical work to aid HMPPS operational decisions on COVID. Past projects include Analytical deep dives focussed on violence in prisons and Development of a monitoring system to track observed incidence of COVID-19 and provide an early indication of possible outbreaks, using a reproducible analytical approach to update reports daily.
Required Education & Experience:
- Knowledge of the evidence around the Criminal Justice System.
- Knowledge and experience of evaluation techniques
- Have strong written and oral communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to explain complex technical data and analytical concepts and practices to non-technical stakeholders, including senior leaders and ministers.
- Strong analytical ability – in particular robust data skills and good working knowledge of the main quantitative, qualitative and/or evaluative research methodologies of relevance in their field of expertise.
- Knowledge and experience using excel
- Strong ability to plan, prioritise and lead an analytical project with challenging and competing timelines.
- Manage partners’ expectations over time, dealing constructively with challenges and where appropriate adapting the analytical or data programme when requirements and circumstances change.
- Confident in using, or willing to learn, R, Python and Power BI.