The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) brings together business expertise and world-class trade negotiators under the vision of making the UK the best place to start and grow a business – driving growth, increasing jobs, and raising wages and living standards.
The Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) brings together operational and policy expertise from DBT with advisory teams from the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office. ECJU regulate military and other sensitive exports such as dual-use items. This is done through a licensing system, ensuring UK exports are consistent with our national and international obligations and standards. ECJU is based in DBT, where it is a part of the Export Control & Sanctions Directorate (EC&S). EC&S also own the policy on international trade sanctions. This role is located within this Export control data and statistics team, which sits within Trade Defence, Controls and Global Trade Analysis.
EC&S is presently undergoing a digital transformation programme, which brings with it significant potential business benefits, however it is a complicated and challenging area. As part of this programme, we are currently transitioning from the existing export control licencing platform (SPIRE) to a new platform (LITE), with both platforms currently in a period of dual running.
As the senior export control analyst, you will be responsible for leading on managing any data and analysis related impact of dual running through working closely with the LITE project team. The role offers a great opportunity for those looking for experience of analysing and disseminating data in a high-profile policy area by working closely with policy and operational teams to maximise our ability to use data to support evidence-based policy development and operational service delivery, whilst ensuring we can continue to operate one of the most transparent licensing regimes in the world.
You will need to be a proactive self-starter, well organised and work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders. It is a challenging role that offers an opportunity to learn new skills.
Reporting directly to the Grade 7 Head of Data, you will lead on managing any data and analysis related impact within EC&S resulting from transitioning from the legacy licencing system (SPIRE) to the new platform (LITE).
Key responsibilities include:
* Working with the LITE project to identify, support and manage any data and analysis related impacts, ensuring dual running of the two systems alongside one another.
* Supporting the LITE data architect to review existing LITE data, ensuring LITE data aligns with DBT’s standards, i.e., is readily available, robust, fit for purpose and documented.
* Capturing data and analytical requirements from the team and wider policy and operational colleagues within EC&S and providing these to the LITE project, ensuring they are prioritised, developed and delivered to specification.
* Identify the data and analytical requirements that can be delivered within the team using existing LITE data and functionality and then delivering these by using innovative technologies and techniques (e.g., data dash-boarding tools).
* Represent EC&S data interests on LITE Data and MI working group and the LITE project board.
* Providing analytical support to the LITE project.
* Working with policy and operational colleagues to use data to underpin performance and service improvements by identifying and understanding how the operation of the unit could be made more efficient.
* Modernising the production processes for internal data related commissions to ensure we can seamlessly provide an overview of the entire licensing system, irrespective of the platform.
* Modernising the production processes for our transparency products (e.g., quarterly official statistics) to ensure we can seamlessly publish in a consistent, comparable format across the 2 platforms, ensuring we can continue to operate one of the most transparent licensing regimes in the world.
* Cleansing and analysing large datasets using analytical software packages (Excel, R, SQL).
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