There are three posts being advertised in DBT’s Employment Rights Analysis team. This is a multi-disciplinary team of 40 plus analysts, who undertake analytical work to support the breadth of the department's labour market policy.
Employment rights is a top priority for the Government who have set out an ambitious, wide ranging and long-term reform plan for workers’ rights in their manifesto, the Plan to Make Work Pay. Our work will ensure that the UK has a labour market that encourages high levels of employment participation across all groups; quality, well-paid work; and better working conditions.
Employment Rights analysts operate in an embedded model supporting specific policy areas, such as the minimum wage, trade union policy, family-friendly rights, state enforcement and individual employment rights. However, there is potential to work flexibly across areas, and to work on cross-cutting issues such as inactivity, skill shortages, the gig economy, and the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the labour market. The area is data and evidence-rich and there is a strong culture of collaboration to shape decision-making at key stages of policy development.
The three G7 economist posts being advertised are:
* Employment Rights Bill analyst : The post-holder will be responsible for steering the programme of analytical work that is supporting the passage of the Employment Rights Bill through Parliament and then its delivery through secondary legislation. This will include Parliamentary facing work (e.g., supporting debates and producing briefing for Ministers), the communication of our analysis to stakeholders (think tanks, trade unions, business representative organisations, and the media), as well as producing cross-cutting impact analysis on the Bill.
* Strategy (Migration and International) analyst. The post-holder will be responsible for coordinating migration analysis in DBT, bringing together analysis from across the Department to inform internal and cross Whitehall discussions. In addition, the post-holder will be responsible for providing evidence on the role of labour standards in the Government’s trade strategy and contribute to other strategic projects on labour market issues (e.g., assessing progress towards our “labour market vision”). This will be a stretching and diverse role, with the opportunity to advise senior decision-makers, Ministers and No10 on what businesses need from UK labour market policy.
* Pay analyst : The post-holder will be responsible for supporting a range of policies that impact workers’ take-home pay, including around working time, unauthorised wage deductions, holiday pay, sick pay and limitation periods for making claims. The post-holder will also be expected to work closely with policy, legal and other stakeholders (e.g., think tanks, academics, other departments) to ensure the analysis reflects the latest evidence to support policy design and development work, as well as considering how to effectively enforce these policies. The work will involve developing an evidence base, considering novel analysis techniques, delivering option, cost-benefit, impact assessments, monitoring and evaluation. The role will be varied and fast-paced, with strong interest from Ministers, senior officials and other departments.
Key responsibilities will include:
* Analysing and presenting complex issues to communicate findings to senior officials, Ministers, other teams within the department and across Government.
* Ownership and autonomy of a stretching portfolio.
* Work with a range of internal and external partners to define the problem, capture and understand evidence and suggest practical policy and analytical solutions.
* Maintaining close relationships with policy leads, legal, comms, and Private Office.
* Undertaking wider strategic evidence building on issues like how employment regulations affect UK competitiveness and how cross-Whitehall labour market policy works together.
* Build expertise and capability across your portfolio, so that you can support key customers, including Ministers.
* Each role will require you to coordinate evidence building activity across the Department develop the ‘DBT-view’ on policy issues.
* Each role comes with line management responsibility of at least one junior analyst.
Analysts in the team gain strong insight into the policy design process and make a real-world impact on millions of workers and employers. They will have the opportunity to undertake appraisal, monitoring and evaluation techniques and develop cross-disciplinary skills. They will be expected to work closely with policy and analytical colleagues from within DBT, across Government as well as academics and research stakeholders to build the evidence base and communicate findings. This is a great opportunity for an analyst to work at the heart of legislative change in a high profile, fast-paced environment and develop soft skills such as leadership and communicating and influencing.
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