UKRI - Place Policy Analyst

Research England

Salary: £45,272 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time or Part Time (Minimum 0.8 FTE)
Contract Type: Open Ended (Permanent)
Location: Westward House, Bristol /Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire (Hybrid)
Grade: UKRI Band E
Closing Date: 11 Mar 25

Context

The importance of evidence, analysis, insight and data for place has risen substantially in the last year, and the reality of the place work is that it takes much more than the current resources allocated to this.

A core part of the analytical need is for UKRI to demonstrate its impact and its support for government priorities. This includes the development of timely forecasts, geographic distribution of spend data to enable UKRI to support the government agenda, as well as insight to support decision making on achieving the organisation’s place based outcomes. For these analytical objectives, there is a need to liaise across the organisation with strategy, finance, comms and data colleagues in order to provide a UKRI wide picture reflective of the organisation’s place-based activity.

You will be an analyst that produces the data on the geographic distribution of UKRI funding on a timely and robust basis, including analysing and synthesising input from across UKRI. You will also use that data to derive insight and evidence. You will have access to senior and executive leaders providing both regular and ad hoc analysis and dashboarding as appropriate to support their decisions, and support policy teams with statistical analysis from a range of sources. The nature of the role and the analytical responsibilities of the role holder will be agile and the tasks will evolve as the strategic direction of UKRI’s place strategy develops, in line with the essential skills as outlined below.

The role holder will have direct linkages into the UKRI Policy Analysis team, who will be leading task management and the roleholder’s projects to ensure alignment and synergy with broader place-related analysis. We are committed to supporting each other’s personal and professional development and will support your learning and development ambitions in this role.

Key Areas of Accountability

• Build and regularly maintain an analytical model that enables the reporting of UKRI’s forecasted geographic distribution of spend, including testing different scenarios and incorporating new data as spending trajectories evolve.
• Deliver ad-hoc pieces of analysis relating to place investment responding to the place function needs (including understanding regional leverage), supporting Monitoring and Evaluation of UKRI’s place interventions.
• Work in an integrated way with the Place analysis team and investment strategy team, as well as with colleagues in other directorates across UKRI (for example those within the data teams of the organisation).
• Assist with quality assurance checks when required; ensuring that the team Quality Assurance process is followed at all times and making sure that QA approvals are escalated as necessary.
• Provide support to stakeholders, responding to queries and providing advice:
  • By addressing internal and external queries as required, including liaison with the investment strategy, place function group and engagement colleagues’ ask for place-based evidence.
• Liaising across teams to identify suitable evidence and datasets to support place analysis.

About You

S – Assessed at shortlisting
I – Assessed at interview
S & I – Assessed at both

Essential skills, qualifications and experience:

• Degree in mathematics or another subject with significant numerical content or equivalent professional experience (S).
• Familiarity (or appetite to learn) R (S).
• Significant experience of analysing data and presenting findings in an understandable way for non-technical audiences (S&I).
• Communicating and influencing (S&I).
• Working together (S&I).
• Managing a quality service (S&I).
• Delivering at pace (S&I).

Desirable skills and experience:

• Able to lead established work areas, with responsibility for sizable or high-profile analytical processes or projects (I).

CONTACT

Hiring Manager: Lyuba Dimitrova ( )

APPLICATIONS

Online applications only for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter to the attachments section (ignore free textbox for cover letter under ‘Experience’ section) which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered. Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the ‘Experience’ section of the application process.

About UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

UKRI launched in April 2018, UKRI is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).

Our organisation brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England, which is responsible for supporting research and knowledge exchange at higher education institutions in England, and the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK. Together we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision to ensure the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation. More information can be found at .

Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlement, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. For more details, visit Benefits of working for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

The role holder will be required to have the appropriate level of security screening/vetting required for the role. UKRI reserves the right to run or re-run security clearance as required during the course of employment.

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How to apply

Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered. Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the ‘experience’ section of the application.

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