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, the Disability Unit and the Race Equality Unit, which look after different portfolios working to Equalities Ministers based in various Departments led by Bridget Phillipson as Minister for Women & Equalities. 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 also taking wider steps to improve trans equality;
* Improving the evidence base about equalities.
OEO’s digital team is a multidisciplinary team that consists of a deputy director, senior product manager, researchers, interaction and content designers. The team works in sprints and is agile. We also work closely with analysts and policy colleagues to define the scope and intentions of a given product.
The team are responsible for the iteration and maintenance of the following digital products:
* Gender Pay Gap reporting
* Ethnicity facts and figures
* Social Mobility Commission’s State of the Nation Data Explorer
* Several bespoke data dashboards
Future work will include: the development of a pay gap platform; integration of Reproducible Analytical Pipelines into the Ethnicity facts and figures website and evaluating the potential uses of AI with our data dashboards.
The digital team works to GOV.UK standards and uses the respective design system aligned to user needs.
Working in the digital team and with colleagues across OEO, the successful candidate will iterate and maintain the following products:
* Gender Pay Gap Reporting
* Ethnicity facts and figures
* Social Mobility Commission’s State of the Nation Data Explorer
* Several bespoke data dashboards
In the coming months the team will be building pay gap action plans and a reporting platform to include disability and ethnicity alongside gender.
Working with analysts in the Race Equality Unit, there is a work stream to integrate Reproducible Analytical Pipelines into the Ethnicity facts and figures website.
We are also looking at the potential artificial intelligence can bring to our data products, specifically with regards to querying existing datasets to describe trends over time.
Understanding the needs of users keeping them at the forefront when taking actions or making decisions.
Ensuring the skills of developers in our team are sufficient for the needs of the products and services being developed, including providing coaching, pairing and mentoring to colleagues, or recommending learning and training areas.
OEO is fully supportive of people who wish to work flexibly and offer a variety of working arrangements including part-time, job-share, compressed hours. Following a job offer the successful applicant will be able to discuss their preferred working arrangement and hours.
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