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Short summary

Buildings are everywhere from the dwellings we live in, to the environment we work in. We need them to be both safe to inhabit and environmentally friendly, avoiding tragedies such as Grenfell Tower in 2017.    

The Safer and Greener Buildings Analysis division is a multi-disciplinary division of analysts. This division specialises in data and analysis of building safety and performance, particularly high-rise residential buildings’ (fire) safety, quality and sustainability. The statistics team works to improve the evidence base on these buildings and uses the evidence to develop policy solutions alongside our policy and operational colleagues.  

All analysts in DLUHC are based within Analysis and Data Directorate. The Directorate is made up of a number of multi-disciplinary teams responsible for delivering evidence across the range of core Departmental priorities, for example on levelling Up, housing, planning, local government finance and local economic growth. The services we provide are always in high demand, including from senior officials, ministers, and their special advisers, both here and in other government departments (most notably Number 10, HM Treasury and the Cabinet Office) and are highly influential in shaping and designing policy.  

The role is based in a statistics team of c.15 statisticians, with a sister team of economists to shape high-rise residential building policy.   

Job description -

These roles are an exciting opportunity to build the extremely important evidence base of residential buildings by collaborating with other organisations and thinking innovatively about data visualisation. Your analysis will draw conclusions about the buildings and the people living in them to work with building safety policy colleagues to design effective policy. With a huge analytically driven reform programme on building safety, including a major new Bill, this is a fantastic opportunity to play a major role in developing the safety of the homes we all live in.  

The post offers a great opportunity for those looking for experience of processing, analysing and disseminating data in a high-profile area, and working closely with policy and operational teams to make the best decisions through high quality data use. Your analysis and conclusions will be influential and shared frequently with Ministers and Directors.   

You will build this important evidence base by scoping, processing, analysing and reporting on data being produced as part of a multi-billion pound funding scheme for remediating unsafe high-rise residential buildings. There will be opportunities to add value and understanding to data using innovative data matching and data visualisation. You’ll then use this evidence to work with policy and operational colleagues to design the best policies and processes in the area of building safety.  

The work of the division is fast-paced, as we provide a variety of evidence to our policy and operational colleagues working on current building safety issues including monitoring remediation of high-rise residential buildings. The Building Safety Programme also has a future looking role to design a new building safety system and you’ll need to make sure our data and evidence are future-proof and fit for the purpose of the new regulator.  

The division aims to respond rapidly to Secretary of State and Building Safety Programme steers and priorities, and projects will be prioritised based on those. The main responsibilities for this post are:  

• Contribute to the building of a robust, accessible, flexible SQL database solution for multi-billion pound funding programmes – ensuring the data pipelines from a variety of sources are received to the quality required;

   

• Build flexible reports and run ad-hoc analysis to report on progress of buildings undergoing remediation work via government funding programmes, and put early warning systems in place to alert if progress is not as expected; 

• Conduct deep dive analysis as required to answer new questions, particularly around evidence to make policy and operational decisions; 

• Contribute to the department’s external reporting in the form of statistical releases. 

Responsibilities

Person specification and essential criteria

• Ability to interrogate and analyse large datasets to provide appropriate insights 

• Ability to choose and implement the most appropriate data visualisations, presentation techniques, and reporting tools for a variety of audiences and purposes 

• Comfortable working with incomplete data to provide advice 

• Working collaboratively with analysts, as well as operational, policy and strategy teams 

• Strong data management skills – preferably with experience of SQL databases 

Offered benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role

• An environment with flexible working options

• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Selection process details

We are for everyone 

At DLUHC we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. We promote equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment and a working environment free from discrimination, harassment, bullying and victimisation. 

We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.  

We are for everyone 

DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.  

Our application system is designed to remove as much bias as possible from the recruitment system – this means that a hiring manager does not know your name, your details, see your whole application in one go (or have your CV at review stage unless stated otherwise).  

Your answers are randomised and chunked up. This means that each assessor views sets of responses to questions for example all candidates’ responses to ‘Seeing the Big Picture’ rather than seeing a candidate’s full application. The science behind this is that recruitment can be subject to ordering and fatigue effects and we want to reduce this as much as possible.  

Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors. 

When writing your application, remember: 

• The assessor won’t be reading your answers sequentially.  

• Do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.  

• If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on!) 

At sift, we will be assessing 

Technical (Lead Criteria): Experience in Government Statistical Service competence of Presenting and Disseminating Data Effectively 

Technical: Experience in Government Statistical Service competence of Acquiring Data and Understanding Customer Needs 

Technical: Experience in Government Statistical Service competence of Data Analysis 

Behaviour: Managing a Quality Service

Behaviour: Delivering at Pace

There is a 250 word limit per question. 

In the event that we receive a large number of applications, we may conduct an initial sift using the lead behaviour listed in the advert. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview 

The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of behaviour and technical based questions as listed in the advert. The strength based questions will require natural responses from the candidates.

In full the campaign will test the below Success Profile Elements: 

Behaviours: Managing a Quality Service, Delivering at Pace

Technical: Yes

We do not consider direct CV applications to our Recruitment mailbox – you must apply for this role via the application link on Civil Service Jobs 

Please note that near miss offers may be made at the lower grade to candidates who do not meet the grade criteria for this campaign 

HEO salary 

• The salary for this role is £30,188 (National). 

• For existing civil servants, the usual policy on level transfer and promotion will apply and is non-negotiable. 

• Our pay award for this year is being negotiated and will be revised upwards - if you have any questions, please email the recruitment team. 

BENEFITS: 

Transfers across the Civil Service on or after 4 October 2018: 

Any move to DLUHC from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk 

For further information about the benefits available to DLUHC employees, please see the attached Candidate Pack. 

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION: 

• Wolverhampton 

• Darlington* 

• Birkenhead

• Birmingham

• Bristol

• Cambridge

• Exeter

• Hastings

• Hemel Hempstead

• Leeds

• Manchester

• Newcastle Upon Tyne

• Nottingham

• Plymouth

• Sheffield

• Truro

• Warrington

There may be opportunities for candidates to work flexibly depending on the business needs. This will be discussed with the vacancy manager on a case-by-case basis if you are successful for the role. 

*Please note: The Darlington Economic Campus (DEC) is a pioneering new cross-government hub which will bring together people across departments and public organisations to play an active role in the most important economic issues of the day. The work of the Campus will make a real difference to people both across the UK and internationally. There will be substantial career opportunities and exciting prospects - a career at the Campus means you will be working at the heart of Government, with access to the benefits and fantastic opportunities offered by the civil service. This role is based at DLUHC and we will be joined on the campus by: 

• HM Treasury  

• Department for International Trade

• Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy  

• Office for National Statistics  

• Department for Education 

For further information on the DEC, please take a look at the attached DEC candidate pack. 

SIFT AND INTERVIEW DATES: 

Sifting is envisaged to take place W/C 24th October 2022 with interview dates to be confirmed. All interviews are currently being held remotely via videocall. 

RESERVE LIST: 

 
In the event that we identify more appointable candidates than we currently have posts available, we will hold applicant details on a reserve list for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. This may include roles at a lower grade. Candidates placed on a reserve list will be informed of this. Due to the length of time CTC checks can take, our HR Shared Services team will contact reserve list candidates for London based roles to commence CTC checks. Those candidates who do not wish to remain on the reserve list should contact recruitment@levellingup.gov.uk to be removed from the reserve list. 

Before starting your application it’s very important to make sure that you are eligible to apply and meet the Civil Service nationality requirements. All candidates are expected to read the information provided in the DLUHC candidate pack regarding nationality requirements and rules 

Candidate Pack Information 

Please see attached Candidate pack for further information. 

Internal Fraud Database 

The Internal Fraud function of the Fraud, Error, Debt and Grants Function at the Cabinet Office processes details of civil servants who have been dismissed for committing internal fraud, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned. The Cabinet Office receives the details from participating government organisations of civil servants who have been dismissed, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned, for internal fraud. In instances such as this, civil servants are then banned for 5 years from further employment in the civil service. The Cabinet Office then processes this data and discloses a limited dataset back to DLUHC as a participating government organisations. DLUHC then carry out the pre employment checks so as to detect instances where known fraudsters are attempting to reapply for roles in the civil service. In this way, the policy is ensured and the repetition of internal fraud is prevented.  

For more information please see- Internal Fraud Register