Life Events Processing Subject Matter Expert
Office for National Statistics
Apply before 11:55 pm on Tuesday 22nd October 2024
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ONS operates a flexible hybrid working model across the UK, with colleagues linked to one of our contractual locations in Newport, Titchfield (Fareham), or Darlington and working between office and remote throughout the week.
As part of the hybrid working arrangement there is a 40% minimum office attendance requirement. Attendance is typically at your contractual office, with occasional travel to alternative locations. Due to estates constraints, there are currently temporary exceptions to this for colleagues based at Manchester and Darlington who are required to attend the office for a minimum of 20% of their work time.
This post is available for eligible colleagues with greater flexibility on attendance (which includes those on Homeworking contracts) to apply. Candidates will need to discuss their current greater flexibilities with the Hiring Manager to agree an arrangement that meets the needs of the individual circumstances and on-going needs of the business.
About the job
Job summary
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.
Life Events Processing (LEP) are part of the Data and Analysis for Social Care and Health (DASCH) division within ONS. We are responsible for the statistical processing of civil registration data (births, deaths, marriages), which is originally collected by local Registrars countrywide. The data is subsequently used to underpin a wide range of statistics including critical mortality analysis which proved invaluable during the COVID-19 pandemic to aid Government decision making. We also provide services and data to external partners including the NHS and UK Health Security Agency, and smaller organisations within academia and local government.
The Operational Delivery Profession (ODP) is the largest profession in the Civil Service. ODP’s 200,000+ members work in a wide range of operational delivery roles across government, providing essential services that support and protect UK citizens at home and overseas. They help to make ONS a great place to work.
As a member, ODP supports you by providing learning and development opportunities, career pathways, tools and resources to help develop your skills and progress your career. This is an exciting opportunity to join a modern, innovative and inclusive Civil Service profession that sits at the heart of public service delivery.
Job description
Are you interested in data and data processing? Do you like to immerse yourself in the detail? Do you want to work in an area which actively serves both the Government and wider public debate and decision-making process?
We are looking for a self-starting individual, with a passion for data and data processing to develop as a subject matter expert within the area of life events. Working with colleagues across disciplines covering data quality, data coding, extract provision, system development, support and testing you will be involved in both continuous improvement and transformation initiatives as well as investigating live issues, discrepancies and new requirements for internal and external stakeholders. The opportunities will grow as your knowledge and capability develops.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain detailed subject matter expertise covering the end-to-end upstream processes for all aspects of birth and death registrations to include the regulatory framework, relevant bodies and actors, and the full data journey.
- Develop and maintain detailed subject matter expertise covering the end-to-end upstream processes for all aspects of marriages, civil partnerships, and dissolutions to include the regulatory framework, relevant bodies and actors, and the full data journey.
- Develop and maintain an excellent working knowledge of ONS systems and data that support and manage the processing of registration data and subsequent delivery and extract to downstream customers and systems.
- Develop and maintain a good working knowledge of external upstream systems and data, that support the collection, preparation, processing, and supply of registration data to ONS.
- Work collaboratively, within the LEP team, with wider ONS functions, and external bodies as required to enable system and data changes driven by regulatory, technology or continuous improvement drivers (internal and external). Projects and change can be large and small.
- Work collaboratively with the wider LEP team to investigate live data and processing issues supporting more junior colleagues where necessary.
- Produce and maintain relevant presentation and modelling documents to maintain subject area knowledge, providing illustration and explanation to other staff both in LEP and wider across the organisation as required.
- Respond to requests for data extracts and information from our internal and external stakeholder community.
Person specification
Essential criteria:
- Existing knowledge in the extended subject matter area identified within ‘Job Responsibilities’ or demonstrable willingness and capability to develop and maintain breadth of subject matter expertise.
- Demonstrable capability/knowledge of data collection, data preparation and data processing methods used in systems.
- Ability to understand and model business and data processes, and specify and document business processing rules.
- An analytical approach to problem solving, with excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to work collaboratively in small teams within and across organisations, to share knowledge, drive and improve capability and delivery, and enable timely project change.
- Ability to work on your own initiative and be pro-active with your workload.
- Excellent inter-personal and confident stakeholder management skills
Desirable Criteria:
- Experience in business analysis
- Experience of process modelling
- Experience in testing (system, business assurance, user)
- Experience of project management
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Changing and Improving
- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together
Benefits
The Office for National Statistics is part of the Civil Service, and as such we share a number of key benefits with other departments, whilst also having our own unique offerings to support our 5400 valued colleagues across the business.
Whether you are hearing about us for the first time or already know a bit about our organisation, we hope that the benefits pack attached (bottom of page) will give you a great insight into the benefits and facilities available to our colleagues, and our fantastic working culture.
Inclusion & Accessibility
At ONS we are always looking to attract the very best people from the widest possible talent pool, and we are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer. As a member of the Business Disability Forum and a Disability Confident Leader we’re committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance.
If you would like an accessible version of any of the attachments or recruitment documents below or linked to in this advert, please contact the recruitment team who will be happy to assist.
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Selection process details
Applicants may utilise AI resources in their submissions; ensuring all information provided is factually accurate, truthful, and original, avoiding any form of plagiarism to maintain the authenticity and credibility of the application process.
Please note that all campaigns may be subject to withdrawal at any stage if the internal resource position changes.
Security Clearance
The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for 3 consecutive years immediately prior to applying.
A lack of UK residency in itself is not always a bar to security clearance but the Department will need to consider eligibility by exception on a case-by-case basis. You will be asked to provide information regarding your UK residency during your application, and failure to provide this will result in your application being rejected.
If you are unsure that you meet the eligibility above, please read the information available on Gov.uk on this link, or contact the recruitment email on the advert before applying to discuss, as failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected and any offer of employment being withdrawn.
At the point of SC application, you will need to provide or give access to the following evidence:
- Departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and security records)
- UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records
- Your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency
- Security Services records
Assessment at application stage will be based on our job history and personal statement.
Your personal statement should be no longer than 1250 words. You should use this space to provide evidence for each essential criteria within the person specification. As the criteria are scored, we would recommend that you give clear examples for each including the impact of your actions. Success Profiles Behaviour examples are not required at this stage.In cases where there is a high number of applications the sift pass mark may be adjusted and candidates will be invited to interview in merit order, i.e. those scoring the highest.
Should you be invited to interview, you will be assessed using various assessment techniques aligned to the new Civil Service Success Profiles, where you'll be assessed against all the behaviours outlined in the advert.
A presentation or test may be required as part of the interview process. Further information will be provided to successful candidates prior to interview if necessary.
Interviews will be conducted by Video Conference.
Our main locations are Newport (South Wales) and Titchfield.
A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made.
The Sift will be conducted from 23/10/2024
Interviews will be conducted from 05/11/2024
For the full terms and conditions of the post, please see attachment.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Jonny Tinsley
- Email : Jonathan.Tinsley@ons.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : Recruitment.Operations@ons.gov.uk
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