The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the UK government department responsible for safeguarding our natural environment, supporting our world-leading food and farming industry, and sustaining a thriving rural economy. Our broad remit means we play a major role in people's day-to-day life, from the food we eat, and the air we breathe, to the water we drink.
Chief Data Officer Directorate
The role will be based in Defra’s central and multidisciplinary team, the Analysis and Insight Directorate (AID). AID has a key, strategic role to play in leading on cross cutting issues and ensuring that high quality analysis is driving Defra’s strategy, policy and ways of delivering.
The team delivers value in numerous key ways:
* Promotes and assures analytical quality across Defra policy areas –supporting the Chief Analyst to ensure the department has robust social science evidence bases and businesses cases, and challenges and supports the Department to promote VFM and accountability
* Leads, co-ordinates and contributes to high quality, impactful analysis to support Defra’s strategies, ministerial priorities and cross cutting areas; including representing Defra analytical thinking on cross cutting issues in cross-Whitehall forums and with OGDs
* Leads on Defra’s Economic Growth Strategy
* Provides specialist analytical expertise to support teams across Defra and represent Defra on cross government expert forum (including for example behavioural insights, evaluation and operational research)
* Develops and improves capability in both the Analytical and Policy profession including providing learning and development, running professional communities, and budgetary management of professions budgets.
Encouraging diverse applicants
We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups.
As a Ministerial department Defra is statutorily required by the Public Records Act to have in place a systematic approach to managing its records, and for appraising, identifying and transferring historical public records to The National Archives (TNA) for permanent preservation in line with the 20 Year Rule.
As part of Defra’s Data and Information Lifecycle function, the Information Appraisal team is looking for a File Processing and Preparation Administrator to join the team based at their Lion House office, in Alnwick NE66 2PF.
The successful candidate will provide administrative support to the Information Appraisal team.
Please be aware that manual handling – movement of boxes and files and trolleys - and working at height are key parts of the role.
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