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Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to be part of a high performing, multi-disciplinary team, working across the highest priorities in DfT?
Would you like to be part high profile projects such as Heathrow 3rd runway and AI adoption?
Do you have the enthusiasm and drive to understand users transport needs and experiences?
Job description
The Department’s Priority Projects Team (PPT) tackles urgent and high-profile challenges across the department, including new, strategic and cross-cutting work. You will be working on emerging political or departmental priorities through focussed, three-month projects, identified through a quarterly bidding process.
The PPT as a whole works on several cross-cutting priority and strategic issues in parallel. We are looking for analysts with a strong background in shaping and delivering high quality analysis for policy. You will be proactive and resilient with strong communication skills, enabling you to get up to speed quickly on new areas of work, working collaboratively with business-as-usual teams. You will work closely with other members of the PPT, delivering projects working collaboratively with other analysts and with policy teams. You will be the liaison with embedded analytical units across DfT ensuring timely engagement where further analytical support is required.
The PPT is a highly collaborative team, with an integral focus on learning and development and supporting each other to achieve. It is an ideal springboard for high performing staff who wish to develop their leadership capabilities and progress their careers. Our identity is committed to inclusivity and delivery - we believe that high performance is best achieved by empowering team members and encouraging them to bring their whole self to work. We embrace different working patterns and styles of working.
The PPT seeks proactive and adaptable analysts skilled in scoping and delivering high-quality policy analysis. You’ll collaborate across teams, supporting projects and liaising with embedded units. The team values inclusivity, development, and empowering members, offering opportunities for growth and leadership advancement.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Lead analytical support in complex and often ill-defined areas; rapidly understanding the problem and designing bespoke analysis approaches. Ensure that the analytical outputs produced create the understanding and evidence needed to ensure good decisions
- Support effective decisions through your advice, even where the evidence is uncertain. Produce evidence, through a combination of identifying and filling gaps and drawing together existing evidence from multiple sources. Communicate with impact to senior policy colleagues and senior analysts, so they are able to use it well. Promote and champion the use of evidence and analysis in policy, as a visible analytical leader.
- Rapidly build effective relationships. Work with relevant teams to scope and understand the problem space. Build relationships with the relevant analytical area to bring out their data / expertise/ insights and ensure clarity of each team’s responsibilities.
Analysts at DfT
There is an active Analytical Community in DfT which includes economists, statisticians, social researchers, transport modellers and operational researchers and holds regular events and training. We encourage continual professional development, with a mixture of internal and external training being supported.
Person specification
To be successful in this role, you will lead analytical workstreams, including defining the problem and defining the scope, methodology design, creating high quality outputs and communicating results. You will have the ability to quickly build an understanding of a new problem area and identify where analysis can add value.
You can design analysis which is fit for purpose in situations where time and data is often limited, ensuring that analytical outputs are used appropriately.
You are versatile as an analyst, being comfortable drawing upon a range of analytical approaches, both quantitative and qualitative, and cross-cutting analytical professional skills. You build relationships with stakeholders including other analysts and policy colleagues rapidly to build trust and understanding.
You will have the ability to highlight risks to delivery and opportunities for innovative thinking. You can communicate complex analysis in a clear, accessible and compelling way to a non-technical audience.
Qualifications
- Have a first or upper second-class honours degree in economics (or international equivalent), or a postgraduate degree in economics. If it is a joint degree, at least 50% of the course modules must be in economics.
- Have studied both macroeconomics and microeconomics.
Apply before 11:55 pm on Friday 18th July 2025
