The Office for Equality and Opportunity (OEO) sits at the heart of the Cabinet Office, leading on some of the government's top priorities.
The OEO consists of the Women & Equality Unit, LGBT Policy, the Disability Unit and the Race Equality Unit, which look after different portfolios working to the Minister for Women & Equalities, the Minister of State for Women & Equalities and the Minister For Social Security and Disability. These policy teams are supported by the Equality Data and Analysis Division, within which this post sits. The Social Mobility Commission secretariat also sits within the OEO and reports to the Social Mobility Commissioners.
Amongst the OEO’s current priorities are:
* Ensuring that equalities are at centre of the cross- government work to develop and deliver all the Government’s Missions including the Opportunity Mission led by Minister Phillipson as both SoS Education and Minister for Women & Equalities;
* Leading work across government to tackle race inequality;
* Extending gender pay gap reporting requirements, introducing ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting and extending the right to equal pay to ethnic minorities and disabled people;
* Championing the rights of disabled people and working with them, so that their views and voices are at the heart of all that government does;
* Ensuring all LGBT+ people are safe, included, and protected from discrimination including by delivering a full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices and modernising, simplifying and reforming the legal gender recognition process to remove indignities for trans people;
* Improving the evidence base about equalities.
This is an exciting analyst post in the award-winning Equality Data and Analysis Division (EDAD). You will lead the Disability Evidence and Analysis Team of researchers and other analysts. You will develop programmes of analytical work - both quantitative and qualitative - to improve the evidence base about disabled people in the UK.
You will provide analytical support to disability policy colleagues. You will be helping to champion the rights of disabled people and working with them, so that their views and voices are at the heart of all that the government does.
Responsibilities
Subject to Ministers’ priorities the post holder will lead - steer, coordinate and oversee - the development of:
* a programme of data collection, analysis and research to inform policy formulation and monitoring - in particular progressing a new disability survey and increasing the amount of lived experience research;
* a consolidated evidence base of quantitative indicators and lived experience research to measure how effective policies and services are for disabled people. This might include developing a dashboard to present the information and will involve leading work with Digital Colleagues in the Equality Hub;
* a plan to improve the quality of disability and impairment data and evidence across government. This plan will involve working with data quality experts, methodologists and other analysts in departments to make changes in the way that disability and impairment data are collected and analysed across government
* research to assist in progressing the pay gap and equal pay legislation.
As a Grade 6 leader, you will also need to develop a team of three analysts also working on disability data. This includes ensuring that appropriate support arrangements are in place, and the team is fully inclusive and that accessibility is ensured.
You will also contribute to the leadership of the Equality Data and Analysis Division and the overall leadership of OEO.