Policy Analyst

Are you an experienced analyst looking to stretch your analytical capability and policy skill, while working on high-profile issues close to the centre of Government? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

The Equalities & Living Standards Analysis (ELSA) branch is made up of six analysts. We support policy development across HMT by leading on both poverty, cost-of-living and general living standards-related analysis as well as equalities and disparities analysis. We analyse how economic shocks and public policy affect living standards, and whether any changes to these are felt evenly across diverse groups in society. We also work across HM Treasury to track and proactively support the department in responding to Cost-of-Living issues, working closely with policy teams, private offices and the parliamentary branch.

About the role

We are looking for a Policy Analyst to join us in working on the Living Standards and Poverty analysis side of the branch. Our work provides an attractive blend of high-profile cross-cutting policy thinking and detailed analytical challenges and is ideally suited to someone who is interested in using their analytical skills to dynamically craft narrative and strategy. However, you'll have many opportunities for flexible working with the Equalities and Disparities Analysis side of the branch, as well as with our partner Distributional Analysis branch.

Key accountabilities:

• Building the evidence base on living standards: you will work to provide ministers with the best possible evidence on living standards
• Developing the Living Standards narrative: working with the Senior Analyst, you will lead HM Treasury Living Standards briefing, communicating evidence on living standards to relevant teams in the department. This will include feeding in the Living Standards narrative analysis and narrative to fiscal events as the need arises.
• Influencing policy: you will lead ad-hoc analytical projects on different areas of policy, ensuring that advice on living standards, distributional impacts and equalities considerations are fed into policy development.
• Coordinating across the Treasury: you will ensure policy work relevant to Living Standards across the department is joined up, contributing to the regular internal Living Standards Board.
• Developing the evidence base: you will attend relevant forums and external events to keep up to date on topical policy issues and the latest evidence.
• Supporting the department: prepare and respond on relevant debates, Freedom of Information requests, correspondence and Parliamentary Questions relating to living standards to answer the public questions on the topic.
• 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

Our successful candidate will hold a numerate degree, in Economics, Statistics or similar. You'll also hold membership (or be eligible for membership) of the badged analytical professions (GES, GSS, GORS, GSR) or analytical professions covered by the Government Analysis Function. You'll be skilled at communicating complex analysis clearly and succinctly to a mixed audience, as well as building positive and productive working relationships to achieve tangible outcomes. Lastly, you'll be comfortable delivering projects on time, using your initiative while managing risks and balancing competing priorities. If this sounds like you, get in touch!

About us

HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We know that having a range of experiences, ways of working and thinking makes us a stronger organisation, better at developing policy that is reflective of the communities we serve. We embrace different views and experiences and value the fresh perspective that people from a variety of circumstances bring to the work we do. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.

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 27%
• 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 (e.g. women in the Treasury, ethnic minority network, LGBT network, faith and belief network) For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.

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