GES Sandwich Student Placement 2025-2026

Government Economic Service & Social Research Profession

Apply before 1:55 pm on Friday 18th October 2024

 
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Details

Reference number

373014

Salary

£22,699
Minimum of £22,699 national locations / minimum of £26,500 in London. Please see attached job description pack for specific departmental salary information.

Job grade

Administrative Assistant
Executive Officer

Contract type

Fixed term

Length of employment

12 months

Business area

Economics

Type of role

Analytical
Economist

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time

Number of jobs available

87

Contents

Birmingham, Bristol, Buxton, Croydon, Darlington, East Kilbride, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newport (Gwent), York

Job summary

Successful candidates will be working with government economists to produce economic analysis and briefings for use across government. Please see the job descriptions document below for more details.

 

Job description

Q&A Session

There will also be a Q&A session with the GES Recruitment Team and current economists, to chat about the application process and the experience of working as an economist in government. 

Date: Thursday 10th October 2024

Time: 12:30am-14:30pm

Place: Virtual, on Microsoft Teams. 

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDY2MWRjYWUtYTVkOC00MGM3LWI2OWUtYjM3Y2E4ZTQzNzkw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22ed1644c5-05e0-49e6-bc39-fcf7ac51c18c%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22d58dd644-e478-4506-b44f-57c2e5e98f20%22%7d

Qualifications

This scheme is open to students in their penultimate year of undergraduate study and who are on course for a 2:1 or 1st class degree, as indicated by exam results from previous years.

Applicants must be studying for:
• A degree in economics or, if it is a joint degree, economics must comprise at least 50% of the total course studied so far (year 1 and 2),
• A joint honours undergraduate degree at a Scottish university, where at least 50% of the modules studied/to be studied during the final two years of the course must be in economics,
• Philosophy Politics and Economics (PPE) degree where at least 50% of the modules studied/to be studied during the final two years of the course must be in economics.

All degrees must include Macro and Microeconomics.


Person specification

The successful candidate will demonstrate these key strengths:
• Able to conduct data analysis using MS Excel and other statistical software
• Able to contribute to economic briefings
• Able to contribute to economic analysis
• Able to conduct economic data gathering
• Able to communicate complex analysis in non-technical language to colleagues with different professional backgrounds

Qualifications

This scheme is open to economic undergraduate students in their penultimate year (i.e. year before the final year of undergraduate study) who are on course for a 2:1 or 1st class degree, as demonstrated by their first year exam results.

Applicants must be studying for:

• A degree in economics or, if it is a joint economics degree, economics must comprise at least 50% of the total course studied so far (year 1 and 2), or

• A joint economics honours undergraduate degree at a Scottish university, where at least 50% of the modules studied/to be studied during the final two years of the course must be in economics, or

• Philosophy Politics and Economics (PPE) degree where at least 50% of the modules studied/to be studied during the final two years of the course must be in economics.

All degrees must include Macro and Microeconomics.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together
  • Managing a Quality Service

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • Macroeconomics
  • Microeconomics
  • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible working options
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Ability, Experience and Technical skills.

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together


Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

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).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : GESR Recruitment team
  • Email : gesrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk

Recruitment team

  • Email : GESRRecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please contact gesrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk in the first instance.

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you may contact the Civil Service Commission, please see link to their website:
https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/recruitment-complaints/

Attachments

Final Application Guidance Notes 2025-26 Opens in new window (docx, 59kB)
Final JD GES Sandwich student placement Opens in new window (docx, 79kB)

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