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Broaden your career horizons

Across the Government Analysis Function there are many opportunities to help broaden your career horizons. This could be building your network of peers through volunteering, participating in a function activity or developing your skills and career by applying for a loan or secondment.

The Analysis Function (AF) is committed to creating an inclusive analytical community where all our members have the chance to thrive, with access to a breadth of career and development opportunities. This page is updated to bring you the latest

loan, secondment, volunteering, shadowing and vacancies from across government ensuring you have a clear view of opportunities available to build your skills and contribute more widely and ensuring equal and transparent access to opportunities.

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What opportunities are available?

Loans and secondments

Loans and secondments are types of placements which can last for varying periods of time. They are a great way to experience a new role, develop skills in a new area or department and can span both inside and outside the Civil Service.

Loans and secondments are usually advertised on Civil Service Jobs, please subscribe to our Opportunities page to receive notifications for any specific opportunities promoted across the AF.

Our professions arrange annual external secondment programmes including the annual Government Statistical Service (GSS) BBC secondment. 2022 will be the sixth year that the GSS has collaborated with the BBC to offer professional development secondments to experienced analysts with four exciting opportunities starting in January next year.

Read Danielle’s account of her experience of working for the BBC on a secondment.

Understand more about the different types of roles available across the Government Analysis Function

Careers in analysis are broad and varied, contributing to decision making at the heart of government. Our Career Framework is a great resource to consider typical analytical roles at various levels across government and to understand more about the skills and experience needed. Interested in applying for a role? Why not visit our careers pages to find out more about careers in government analysis.

Analysis Function (AF) Coffee Connect

An informal networking opportunity, AF Coffee Connect is a great way to meet analysts and build your network to broaden your understanding of working as an analyst across government. Each month participants are matched randomly and conversations held over coffee. Email analysis.function@ons.gov.uk to sign up.

Volunteering, shadowing and exchange programmes

• The Government Statistical Service offer an analytical volunteer programme, visit the GSS website to find out more including annual details.
• The Office for National Statistics and Data Science Campus programme with Statistics Rwanda

Current opportunities (shown in order of closing date)

Senior Statistical Officer, Youth Justice Board. Closing date 20 December 2021.

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) is the only public body with oversight of the whole youth justice system. Evidence and research are key to understanding the youth justice landscape.

This role represents an excellent opportunity to support aligning analysis, research and reporting capability to YJB’s vision for a child first youth justice system. A system that sees children as children, treats them fairly and helps them to build on their strengths so they can make a constructive contribution to society.

This role is open to:

• Existing Government Statistician Group (GSG) members either on level transfer or on promotion.
• Other candidates who would like to join GSG on level transfer through the interview process must meet the minimum criteria for this profession, joining details on the GSS website: Joining us.

Further information and application details on Civil Service Jobs - Senior Statistical Officer, Youth Justice Board.

Grade 7 x 2, Delivery and Analysis Directorate, Team Leader - International Comparators Joint Unit, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Open on Temporary Promotion). Closing 4 January 2022.

The International Comparators Joint Unit (ICJU) is recruiting for two exciting and high impact analytical roles. The ICJU’s role is to analyse what other countries are doing on a range of domestic and foreign policy issues and identify lessons for UK policymakers. If you are keen for a mix of international and cross-Government experience, working at the cutting edge of analysis in government, this role is perfect for you.

The unique model of the unit combines diplomatic reporting from across the overseas network, with open source and propriety datasets, polling and more to produce the robust, evidence-based insights that seniors and Ministers need. The team take pride in how they communicate work as well as the quality of analysis, and have established a strong reputation and name recognition across Whitehall for their impact.

If you have any questions about this role or about working in ICJU, please email iain.gill@fcdo.gov.uk (hiring manager Team Leader roles).

Further information and application details on Civil Service Jobs - Grade 7 x 2, Delivery and Analysis Directorate, Team Leader - International Comparators Joint Unit, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Director of Analysis and Chief Economist, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Closing date 16 January 2022.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is looking for an exceptional candidate to be Director of Analysis and Chief Economist.

This high-profile and exciting role sits at the strategic heart of the core department and the wider DEFRA group. The post-holder will have responsibility for ensuring policy development and major delivery programmes are underpinned by data, analysis and evidence that commands confidence.

Further information and application details on Civil Service Jobs - Director of Analysis and Chief Economist, DEFRA.

Delegated Grades Cross Government Expression of Interest - Supply Chains Unit, Cabinet Office, six month loan.

The Supply Chains Unit is a new and high-performing unit, set up within the Cabinet Office and focused on a key Government priority. It will focus on immediate challenges facing supply chains as well as the medium-term work to make the UK’s supply chains more resilient.

The Unit is made up of teams spanning the secretariat for a Ministerial committee, cross-Whitehall coordination, policy, strategy, private office and business support, analysis, data acquisition and visualisation, and business intelligence.

This unit is doing top priority work on a political priority. It is fast-paced and high-profile, and will require you to get up to speed quickly on emerging and longer-term issues in order to provide quality advice to Ministers at pace.

Log in to Civil Service Jobs to find out more about the 60 loan positions available - Delegated Grades Cross Government Expression of Interest - Supply Chains Unit.

Supply Chains Unit Cell, Department for Transport

The Supply Chain Cell require three Grade 7 analytical leads in Statistics, Economics and Modelling for six to nine months posts.

You will work with the National Economic Recovery Taskforce - Logistics secretariat, co-ordinating the Department’s contribution across all transport modes to address issues facing the UK’s supply chain. The opportunity is open for temporary promotion or level transfer.

To request a role profile and to apply, please email Laura.Marquis@dft.gov.uk as soon as possible.