Head of Advanced Analytics & Intelligence

at  Cabinet Office

JOB SUMMARY

The Infected Blood Compensation Authority seeks an ambitious head of Advanced Analytics & Intelligence, to lead how we use current and emerging techniques so we might make swift payments to victims of infected blood. IBCA is responsible for administering a compensation scheme that will process millions of pages of evidence across medical records, minutes of meetings, and other data, as well as flows of information to and from government departments, health agencies and other bodies. The data landscape is complex and delivering an efficient service will rely on making data work hard on our behalf.
The postholder will lead the development of data solutions to support managing fraud, evidence processing to help speed up decisions as well as developing tools that allow us to better understand and engage with those who should engage with the scheme. The opportunity for the postholder to have an impact on those who deserve compensation is huge, and suits a candidate looking to bring their leadership and experience to bear and make a real impact to real people.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The role offers an unparalleled opportunity to shape and define your position and the benefits that data science can bring to a dynamic team providing a critical, operational assessment function. You’ll pitch project ideas, explore novel collaborations with partners, and foster a team culture of creativity and innovation.
You’ll champion the benefits of data science, AI (including generative) and machine learning to tackle challenges IBCA will face including operational efficiency, forecasting, fraud mitigation & detection, cohort analysis, and more - as well as being capable of conveying the benefits and risks of methods to non-technical audiences.
We are looking for a highly motivated individual with a drive for social impact to join the data directorate leadership team and hit the ground running, quickly getting to grips with challenges that arise from standing up a greenfield department at pace.
You’ll be a visible technical leader, providing both data science and strategic leadership to your team, as well as supporting a deputy director to shape the data operations function. You’ll confidently lead on work areas and be able to actively identify opportunities to create change, weigh up approaches and proactively deliver a vision.
Two significant areas of opportunity include those arising from the development of graph networks, an image processing / beyond OCR of materials; including emerging methods combining image-text and voice-text transformers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Predictive Analysis & Machine Learning
• Business Intelligence & visualisation

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £67,126, Cabinet Office contributes £19,446 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.

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

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RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead Fraud Detection and Evidence Processing Initiatives:
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  Develop demand insight:
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  Champion Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning:
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  Be responsible for the business intelligence / reporting environment:
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  Provide Strategic and Technical Leadership: