Senior Economic Research Specialist (C0107N)
Homes England
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 13th October 2024
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The Senior Economic Research Specialist role is part of an ambitious team of 12 economists, researchers, market analysts, and geospatial experts, delivering high quality research and analysis to help the agency deliver social and economic impact.
Job description
Playing a crucial part in supporting this wider analytical function, the Senior Economic Research Specialist will be focused on embedding economic analysis within Homes England decision making and strategy development, including through:
Leading the team’s economic and housing market forecasting capabilities, and efforts to embed these within the Agency, thus providing the Agency with the ability to conduct scenario planning across its portfolio.
Leading delivery of the Agency’s regular programme of market intelligence, analysing the latest data on the housing market and economy, and translating this into actionable insight for colleagues.
Leading delivery of major bespoke research and analysis studies on specific housing market and economic topics, to inform delivery and strategy development. This will include working directly to a range of clients – from delivery teams to government officials.
Leading delivery of the Agency’s Evaluation Programme, including the full range of research and analysis needed to complete this work (document/literature reviews, data analysis, consultations/surveys, report writing and dissemination of findings), using a wide range of methods, and ensuring that the evaluations are completed as robustly as possible to provide high quality evidence to HM Government.
Line managing junior members of the Research and Analysis team and support the wider team to complete their outputs to the highest standard, working collaboratively and supportively across the REA function, as a critical friend to strategic research and analysis.
Leading the procurement and contract management of major research and analysis studies that require independent and/or expert inputs.
Person specification
You'll be interested in regeneration and housing and ambitious in delivering high quality research and analysis that can help the agency to deliver real impact for the housing market and communities we serve.
You'll be comfortable working on a range of projects as well as helping the team to implement our varied and exciting research programme - all to ensure the agency's decision making is based on robust evidence and delivers maximum value for money for society.
Existing knowledge of the housing sector is desirable, but we are looking for transferable communication, research and analytical skills and a real desire to help find new innovative ways to improve our service to Homes England colleagues and wider stakeholders.
As the role will be will be line managing junior members of the Research and Analysis team you'll be able to demonstrate a good track record in managing / supporting the development of junior colleagues.
Benefits
Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:
Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.
Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.
Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.
Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.
We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.
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Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
Selection process details
For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.
Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.
Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.
Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter
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Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.
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Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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- Name : Recruitment team
- Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
