Senior Research And Statistical Analyst

Are you passionate about using data and analysis to improve the lives of those that live, work, and visit London?
Are you driven to improve the safety and wellbeing of London’s communities?
If so, this may be the role for you!
The GLA are seeking to appoint a permanent Senior Research and Statistical Analyst to join the Strategic Crime Analysis Team based within their City Intelligence Unit.
The City Intelligence Unit is a multidisciplinary team responsible for providing the Mayor and the GLA with world-class evidence and analysis. Our work covers a wide range of topics including demography, economics, social policy, crime, and spatial analysis. We employ a growing number of data professionals, including data scientists, analysts, data engineers, and data visualisation specialists.
In this post, you’ll help the Strategic Crime Analysis team deliver on several high-profile data-sharing projects. These projects concentrate on community safety issues and were introduced to help reduce crime and disorder within London. The role will focus mainly on the preparation of analytical products to inform the Mayoral priorities and increase the corporate understanding of crime and disorder issues within London.
Key responsibilities of the role include: the completion of multi-agency data analysis to help inform the provision of strategic reports to the London-based Community Safety Partnerships; the creation of regular reporting outputs in collaboration with the Information Sharing to Tackle Violence (ISTV) programme and the Mayor's Office for Policing And Crime (MOPAC); the completion of strategic analysis in support of the wider work of the City Intelligence Unit, the GLA policy teams, the Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) and the Police and Crime Plan; and working to both maintain and expand upon the SafeStats service data provision.
The work undertaken in this role will contribute to making London a safer place to live, work and visit, through supporting the Mayor’s priorities around crime, public safety, and public health.
Principal accountabilities
Work with a range of policy stakeholders across the GLA to understand their community safety evidence requirements and develop and undertake a series of Research and analysis projects to meet these.
Undertake both solo and collaborative data analysis and deliver relevant presentations to major stakeholders (including the GLA functional bodies, Local Authorities, and the London-based Violence Reduction Unit).
Work collaboratively with both the Information Sharing to Tackle Violence (ISTV) Team and MOPAC’s Evidence and Insight Unit on crime and disorder-related issues – complementing their analytical programmes of work as and when deemed necessary and appropriate.
Disseminate evidence to a wide variety of internal and external audiences via a range of high-quality published reports, oral presentations, and written briefings to encourage robust strategy and policy development.
Provide resilience across the Strategic Crime Analysis Team to ensure continuity of service, in terms of both SafeStats data provision and regular Team outputs.
Contribute expertise and support to the wider work of the Demography and Policy Analysis (DPA) team and the City Intelligence Unit (CIU) as required.
Represent the GLA at external meetings with professional organisations and other bodies in your specific area of analytical expertise.
Deputise, as required, for the Head of Strategic Crime Analysis.
Manage staff and resources as allocated to the job in accordance with the Authority’s policies and Code of Ethics and Standards
Realise the benefits of London’s diversity by promoting and enabling equality of opportunities and promoting the diverse needs and aspirations of London’s communities.
If you would like to informally discuss any aspects of this job role, please email Sophie Deakin (Sophie.deakin@london.gov.uk.)
Please note all applications for this vacancy must be submitted via our online recruitment system. We do not accept CVs alone for this role.
Please upload a supporting statement with a maximum of 1500 words to the ‘Additional Documents’ section of the form, ensuring you address the following technical requirements and competencies in your supporting statement. Word or PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images.
Please ensure your CV and supporting statement documents are saved with the job reference number as part of the naming convention (E.g. “CV – applicant name - 012345).
The GLA Competency Framework Guidelines further detailing each competency and the different level indicators can be found here: GLA competency framework
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Technical requirements/experience/qualifications
A high level of numeracy, as evidenced by a good degree in a subject with a high statistical and analytical content as well as significant and substantial professional experience.
Post-academic experience managing projects in statistics / analysis / research in a relevant and comparable environment, including skills in the analysis and interpretation of large complex datasets.
Evidence of successful building and maintaining working relationships across professional and operational boundaries within an organisation, and with external organisations.
The ability to convey complex technical information to a range of audiences via published reports, data tools, technical and instructional materials, and oral presentations.
Evidence of significant and substantial experience using Excel (or a similar software program) for data entry, collation, and manipulation purposes.
Behavioural competencies
Research and analysis … is gathering intelligence (information, opinion and data) from varied sources, making sense of it, testing its validity and drawing conclusions that can lead to practical benefits.
Level 2 indicators of effective performance:
Proactively seeks new information sources to progress research agendas and address gaps in knowledge
Grasps limitations of or assumptions behind data sources, disregarding those that lack quality
Analyses and integrates qualitative and quantitative data to find new insights
Translates research outcomes into concise, meaningful reports
Identifies relevant and practical research questions for the future.
Communicating and influencing … is presenting information and arguments clearly and convincingly so that others see us as credible and articulate and engage with us.
Level 2 indicators of effective performance:
Communicates openly and inclusively with internal and external stakeholders
Clearly articulates the key points of an argument, both in verbal and written communication
Persuades others, using evidence-based knowledge, modifying approach to deliver message effectively
Challenges the views of others in an open and constructive way
Presents a credible and positive image both internally and externally.
Stakeholder focus… is consulting with, listening to, and understanding the needs of those our work impacts and using this knowledge to shape what we do and manage others’ expectations.
Level 2 indicators of effective performance:
Seeks to understand requirements, gathering extra information when needs are not clear
Presents the GLA positively by interacting effectively with stakeholders
Delivers a timely and accurate service
Understands the differing needs of stakeholders and adapts own service accordingly
Seeks and uses feedback from a variety of sources to improve the GLA’s service to Londoners.
This role is based at the London Fire Brigade’s Head Office (Union Street SE1 0LL).
GLA staff are hybrid working up to 3 days a week in our offices and remotely depending on their role. As part of this, you will need to split your time between home working and coming into the office.
London's diversity is its biggest asset, and we strive to ensure our workforce reflects London's diversity at all levels. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith, or disability.
We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We would welcome applications from candidates who are seeking part time work as this role is open to job share.
In addition to a good salary package, we offer an attractive range of benefits including 30 days’ annual leave, interest free season ticket loan, interest free bicycle loan and a career average pension scheme.
Application closing date: 7th January 2024 at 23:59
We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.