Job summary
Please note: This is not a job vacancy.
This is an opportunity for existing staff to become a member of the Government Statistical Group (GSG), a part of the Government Statistician Service (GSS) at their substantive grade.
This advert enables individuals to take the online GSS test, a requirement for the badging assessment.
Job description
This exercise is only open to applicants who are a substantive EO - G6 within one of the government departments listed below.
All other applications will be rejected.
1. Cabinet office � CO�
2. Department for Energy Security and Net Zero - DESNZ (HEO and G7 only)
3. Department for Culture, Media and Sport - DCMS
4. Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs - DEFRA�
5. Department for Business and Trade - DBT (HEO and SEO only)
6. Department for Transport - DFT
7. Department for Health and Social Care - DHSC
8. Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities - DLUHC�(EO, HEO, SEO and G7 only)
9. Food Standards Agency - FSA (HEO only)
10. Department for Science Innovation and Technology - DSIT (HEO, SEO, G7 and G6 only)
11. Health and Safety executive - HSE (HEO only)
12. His Majesty�s Revenue and Customs - HMRC (EO and G7 only)�
13. Home Office - HO�
14. Ministry of Defence - MOD
15. Ministry of Justice - MOJ
16. NHS Business Services Authority - NHSBSA
17. Office for National Statistics - ONS
18. OFSTED�
19. Welsh Government - WG
20. Planning Inspectorate - PI (HEO only)�
21. UK Health Security Agency - UKHSA (HEO, SEO and G7 only)�
Please note that this is not a promotion. Successful candidates will be badged into the GSG and will remain in their existing post/department.
Please disregard the number of posts/ contract type/ salary indicated on the advert as the information is not applicable to this exercise.
Person specification
What to Expect:
You will join the Government Statistician Group (GSG) within the GSS. The GSG is the professional community for all civil servants working in the collection, production and communication of official statistics. The community is spread across most UK government departments and the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
The benefits of being in the GSG include:
- Shaping the future of statisticians with a network of statistically minded individuals who are excited about contributing to analysis across Government. The network includes Methodologists, Data Scientists and Statisticians
- Bespoke training which introduces you to the GSG (Induction training) and covers the structure and governance of the GSS, the UK Code of Practice, the UK Statistics Authority Strategy and career management
- Attendance of a two day course which covers aspects of data collection, analysis and dissemination
- Opportunities to maintain your Continuous Professional Development (CPD) through a statistical learning and development programme
- The opportunity to work across a range of government departments, agencies and other public bodies playing a pivotal role in government decision making.
Qualifications
You should have one of the following:
� A first or second class honours degree (2:2 minimum for Statistical Officer) or equivalent in a subject containing formal statistical training ( Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Sciences, Business Studies, Psychology, Geography, Data Science or similar); or
� A higher degree, an MSc or PhD, in a subject containing formal statistical training ( Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Sciences, Business Studies, Data Science, Psychology, Geography or similar).
� Have worked in a statistical or data science field for a minimum of two years and are able to demonstrate Continuous Professional Development (via a logbook) in applying statistics or data science at the same level as a foundation degree or Higher National Diploma (level five), which demonstrates the expected skills as outlined in the GSG Competency framework.
� Have achieved a level 4 apprenticeship including at least 2 years in a statistical/data analysis field in government and are able to demonstrate continuous professional development in statistics/data analysis (via a CPD log book signed off by a manager or mentor who are members of the statistical profession).
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
22. Disseminating and Presenting Data
23. Acquiring Data / Understanding Customer Needs
24. Data Analysis
Benefits
Badging exercise only.