Overview
Can you turn complex data into clear insights that influence decisions and improve policy outcomes? Do you build strong stakeholder relationships while ensuring high-quality analysis, data practices, and effective communication?
If so, we'd love to hear from you!
The Department for Transport (DfT) is committed to putting passengers back at the heart of the railways and introducing new measures to protect their interests. Our railways play an essential role in enabling people to travel, connecting people and communities, and seizing economic opportunities.
This post is within the Transport Statistics community, which has a strong identity and impact within DfT, producing a broad range of statistics and embracing innovation and improvement in areas such as data visualisation and coding techniques. We develop and deliver high quality analysis and statistics that underpin evidence-based policy and decision making, and which meet the needs of users.
Benefits
* Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
* 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
* Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
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Role
As Higher Statistical Officer, you will use official statistics, management information and big data to steer and develop policy and operational activities. You will directly influence key decisions, tackle real-world challenges, and play a pivotal part in shaping the future of our organisation.
You will also develop and maintain data tools for various customers, working with multiple teams across the Department, other public sector rail entities both internally and externally, and the Office of Rail and Road and Great British Railways.
Responsibilities
* Deliver high quality statistical advice including supporting drafting of ministerial briefings and statistical advice to Ministers, telling the story of the data in plain language to aid understanding.
* Extract and manipulate data from multiple existing data sources to enable complex new analysis, advising other analysts on suitability of data and best practice usage.
* Producing the rail passenger crowding statistical release (includes analysis, preparation of key facts, commentary, quality report, charts and tables, and layout work).
* Perform and document quality checks on familiar and new data sources and innovate new quality assurance processes to improve the quality of the team's data sources. Evaluate whether a data source is fit for purpose by making professional judgments on its suitability and relevance, ensuring quality issues and their implications are communicated to end users.
* Build and maintain working relationships with train operating companies (TOCs) to encourage the submission of high-quality data to the Department. Actively engage with TOCs to understand data collection processes and challenges, using influence to improve data quality by advocating best practice and empowering them to take ownership of data quality improvements.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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