Reducing Re-Offending Pilot Senior Analyst (1 role available)

at  Ministry of Justice

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The national salary range is £39,868 - £43,535. London salary range is £45,824 - £50,039. Your salary will be dependent on your base location
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SEO

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Permanent
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Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share, Flexible Working
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Economics, Operational Research, Statistics, Analytical, Social Research
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Do you have the passion, values, and ability to help us solve the biggest problems of the justice system?

Reducing Reoffending Pilot Senior Analyst (SEO), BOLD Programme, Data & Analysis, Ministry of Justice

• Overview

We have one role in the Reducing Reoffending Pilot team of the BOLD programme, within the Data & Analysis Directorate.

Roles are open to:

• Existing analysts from all professions (GORS/GSS/GSR/GES) either on level transfer or on promotion.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS TO APPLY:

Candidates must be able to show the relevant experience and skills and must meet the criteria for entry:

SEO grade:

• You have significant work experience (usually a minimum of three years) evidencing use of data and/or analytical skills. Time spent on an analytical PhD can count towards this.

We welcome applications from candidates based across the UK. Candidates will have the option of being based in the Leeds or London HQ offices (with flexible working arrangements available) or your nearest Justice Collaboration Centre or Justice Satellite Office. These are based at the following JCCs: Cardiff, Leeds, Nottingham, South Tyneside, Brighton, Ipswich and Liverpool, and the following JSOs: Ashford, Beverley, Haverfordwest, Hull, Merthyr Tydfil, Manchester, Newport, Birmingham, Sheffield, North Shields, Bristol, Wolverhampton, Weston-Super-Mare, Stafford, Truro, Winchester and Leeds.
Alternative locations may be available and will be discussed and agreed on the completion of background checks.

Interviews are likely to take place in late April/early May 2024 and will be held via MS Teams. We will keep a merit list for a year for those who successfully pass the interview board but who are not offered a post.

• About Data & Analysis

We are passionate about improving justice outcomes through innovative research, data and analysis. In Data and Analysis, we provide high quality data and analysis helping to ensure strategic, policy, finance, corporate and operational decisions are based on robust evidence.
We create a culture in which people are empowered with the data and information to make excellent decisions; using cutting edge tools, techniques and collaboration; putting evidence at the heart of the justice system.
We are a multi-disciplinary team of around 650 staff that sits at the heart of the Ministry of Justice providing analytical support across a diverse and exciting agenda. We work in a dynamic and fast-paced context and our skills are in heavy demand across the Ministry of Justice. Our collaborations beyond government are seen as ground-breaking. The Data and Analysis community is made up of analysts and specialists including: Social Researchers, Economists, Operational Researchers, Statisticians, Data Engineers, Data Scientists and other data specialists (such as data strategists, data dissemination, generalists and assurance experts).

THE BOLD PROGRAMME

The Better Outcomes through Linked Data (BOLD) programme is a cross-government initiative delivered in partnership between the MoJ, the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC), Public Health Wales (PHW)/Welsh Government (WG) and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC) and this role offers the opportunity to deliver impact across a broad range of public services.
Public services collect a large amount of data which is used to improve the quality of services offered to the public, but it is often not shared between organisations, making it difficult to understand whether certain services have been effective.
The BOLD Programme, backed by investment from HM Treasury, will improve the connectedness of government data so that policymakers and those working on the frontline of UK public services have better quality evidence on what works in supporting victims, reducing homelessness and substance misuse and helping offenders turn their backs on crime. Understanding what services best help prison leavers into work could help to prevent thousands of people becoming victims each year and save some of the £18 billion annual cost of repeat crimes.
The programme has four demonstrator pilot projects focusing on substance misuse, homelessness, victims of crime and reducing reoffending. The demonstrator projects are so named because they are pilots for the ethos behind BOLD, striving to
demonstrate the value of linking data across departmental boundaries, in this first iteration, to support adults who interact in different ways with the Criminal Justice System.
The post being offered sits within the Reduce Reoffending pilot of the BOLD programme, which uses linked data to help tackle the underlying causes of offending and promote rehabilitation and reform.

Following the end of the BOLD programme at the end of March 2025, the successful applicant will have the opportunity to move to an analyst role within Data and Analysis in the MoJ.

• What you’ll do

We are looking for a Senior Analyst (SEO level) to lead on the development of the Families and Intergenerational Offending project within BOLD’s Reducing Reoffending pilot. The postholder will lead statistical analysis, drawing on linked data, to develop estimates on the number of children impacted by parental imprisonment; this will include using innovative methods to draw out early insights on associated outcomes for those children.
The successful applicant will work collaboratively with analytical, policy and operational colleagues within the MoJ and cross government to produce robust, quality assured analysis which meets stakeholder needs and fills critical evidence gaps. Analytical outputs from this project are intended for publication and so the postholder will also be expected to manage the dissemination process.

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to gain experience in the development of a high-profile project in a fast-paced and challenging role.

• Who you are

The job holder will be required to undertake the following duties and responsibilities:

• Act as the analytical lead for the BOLD Families and Intergenerational Offending project and develop thorough understanding of research in this area.
• Conduct analysis of linked administrative data to further develop estimates of children of prisoners.
• Conduct statistical analysis of local level data sources to understand impact of parental imprisonment on children.
• Work closely within our cross-disciplinary team of policy, operational and data science colleagues; producing and disseminating statistical evidence to meet stakeholder requirements.
• Build relationships with a range of stakeholders to define research questions and evidence gaps.
• Work collaboratively across MoJ to explore new and alternative data sources and data linking with other data sources.
• Effectively communicate complex analysis to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Work flexibly to support the wider analytical team within BOLD: promote and champion BOLD at conferences and stakeholder events.

The following experience and skills will be required:

• Strong analytical ability, in particular quantitative skills and confidence manipulating large data sets.
• 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.
• Have effective 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.
• Experience in writing clear and concise code in R.

The following experience and skills are desirable:

• Experience using quality assurance in analytical work, including producing robust and reproducible analysis using modern version control software.
• Experience with R, Python, SQL, git.
• Understanding of the Official Statistics Code of Practice.
• Experience of longitudinal data analysis and regression models.
• How to apply

You’ll need to submit an anonymised CV and Statement of Suitability as part of your application. You will not be considered if you do not provide both.
Your CV should be no more than 2 pages long and should show us your work history and previous experience. It should be well structured, succinct and written in clear language.
Your Statement of Suitability should be no more than 750 words and should give us examples of how your skills and experience match those needed for this role. Consider giving examples that cover all the requirements in the ‘Who you are’ section and use work you have completed to demonstrate how you meet each one.

Roles are open to:

• Existing analysts from all professions (GORS/GSS/GSR/GES) either on level transfer or on promotion

The job holder will be required to undertake the following duties and responsibilities:

• Act as the analytical lead for the BOLD Families and Intergenerational Offending project and develop thorough understanding of research in this area.
• Conduct analysis of linked administrative data to further develop estimates of children of prisoners.
• Conduct statistical analysis of local level data sources to understand impact of parental imprisonment on children.
• Work closely within our cross-disciplinary team of policy, operational and data science colleagues; producing and disseminating statistical evidence to meet stakeholder requirements.
• Build relationships with a range of stakeholders to define research questions and evidence gaps.
• Work collaboratively across MoJ to explore new and alternative data sources and data linking with other data sources.
• Effectively communicate complex analysis to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Work flexibly to support the wider analytical team within BOLD: promote and champion BOLD at conferences and stakeholder events