[ref. i11500301] Senior Statistical Officer: Trade Production Statistics
Thank you for your interest in joining the Statistics and Data Division in the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). This is a great place to work – people are enabled and supported to perform to their best and the culture is energetic, collaborative, kind and inclusive with excellent flexible working.
We are the UK government department for economic growth. We support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country. The Analysis Group exists to make better policy and to ensure that Ministers and DBT’s leadership can make informed policy and operational decisions, based on the best possible analysis.
The Trade Production Statistics team, within the Trade Statistics Unit, is responsible for producing high quality, trusted, Official Statistics and briefing on trade and investment.
The team are a centre of expertise within DBT for trade statistics. We support colleagues across the department in finding and using suitable data and statistics. We maintain the Trade and investment country factsheets, the UK trade in numbers, and the Trade and Investment Core Statistics Book.These products are established, high-quality, and high-profile statistics that contribute to DBT’s “single version of the truth”.
The team leads on trade and investment statistics briefings for Ministers and senior officials across the department. Producing regular high quality summaries of the latest key statistics releases.
We are a team that’s dedicated to producing high-quality analysis and deploys advanced coding skills in our statistic production processes. There are opportunities to develop different areas of expertise, and you will be exposed to a wide range of colleagues throughout the department and within government.
This role provides ample opportunity for development. The successful candidate will lead on:
- The production of outputs, quality assurance, and publication of our Official Statistics (Trade and Investment Factsheets, UK trade in numbers, and the Trade and Investment Core Statistics book).
- Maintaining and developing the high-quality and rigour of our Official Statistics. This will include implementing improvements to R scripts and the reproducible analytical pipelines, fixing issues and adding new features, as part of the team’s ongoing development work.
- Regular statistics briefings for Ministers and senior officials across the department. Summarising key messages and telling the story from the latest trade and investment statistics; ensuring the figures are communicated in a way that is clear and easy to understand for a non-technical audience.
- Responding to ad-hoc queries related to the Official Statistics, including summarising and presenting trade data for colleagues and ensuring analysis is put into context with all necessary caveats. This can include inputting into ministerial briefings, parliamentary questions, and responding to media queries.
- Working flexibly across different directorates and with non-analytical colleagues that utilise our statistics to support them with any analytical projects and analysis.
- Providing guidance to team members and other colleagues on a range of UK and international trade data sources and their appropriate use. This includes working with the central statistics teams and other analytical DBT teams in promoting the “single version of the truth”, ensuring that data are interpreted and used correctly.
- Line management of a junior analyst, delegating tasks and supporting them to develop their skills and lead on pieces of analytical work.