Are you looking to join a high-profile team working on a range of interesting, influential and challenging analytical projects.? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
About the Team
The Labour Markets and Distributional Analysis team is a friendly and diverse team of outstanding analysts and policy makers. We seek to bring together an understanding of households’ living standards and position in the labour market, with key labour market policies, such as DWP’s unemployment regime and tax-free childcare.
The advertised roles sit within the Distributional Analysis branch of the team. We analyse how tax, welfare and public service spending decisions will affect households’ living standards and advise Ministers accordingly. Whilst our approach on tax and welfare closely mirrors respected think tanks such as the Institute of Fiscal Studies, we also model the impacts of public services, such as NHS, schools and social care spending. This broader approach means we can consider a much wider range of ways to provide support to the poorest and most vulnerable households. This means we are involved in policy discussions in areas including social care, childcare, Universal Credit, personal tax, and many more!
About the Job
In this role, you will:
* Build expertise in running the team’s microsimulation models, including our tax and welfare model (IGOTM) and public service spending (RDEL) model. This will also involve contributing to the continuous development of these models, ensuring the team’s continued capability to answer critical questions for policy making.
* Contribute to the provision of distributional analysis at fiscal events (Budgets and Statements), feeding into ministerial advice on the distributional impact of policies under consideration and producing analysis for the “Impact on Households” document published alongside each fiscal event (the most recent publication can be found here: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67e31bdadcd2d93561195bbb/Impact_on_households_-_SS25_FINAL.pdf
* Produce high quality and accurate modelling of the impact of tax, welfare and public spending policy on households throughout the year, developing strong working relationships with analysts within and outside HM Treasury, sharing knowledge and ensuring that our analysis is robust and able to continue to inform and influence policy development. Recent work by the branch has included Distributional analysis of the Spending Review and analysis of cost-of-living support measures.
The responsibilities of the role will be varied, to reflect the wider needs across the team. There is scope for this role to involve significant technical content, for example, including development and maintenance of the team’s microsimulation models, as well as deploying analysis for policy development.
About You
The successful candidate will:
Experience in delivering robust quantitative analysis that influences decision making. (Technical Skill)
Evidence of using a range of relevant, credible information from internal and external sources to support decisions, inviting challenge and where appropriate involve others in decision making (Making Effective Decisions)
Evidence of the ability to prioritise and adapt in order to deliver and support the team, often under short deadlines, while maintaining progress against longer term aims (Delivering at Pace)
Form effective partnerships and relationships with people both internally and externally, from a range of diverse backgrounds, sharing information, resources and support (Working Together).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 28.97%
* 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
For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.
If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection
process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk
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