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Full Job Description
We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
Would you like to lead evaluation that improves how transport infrastructure and policies are delivered for people?
Do you enjoy using technical evaluation skills to deliver impactful analysis?
Do you enjoy working collaboratively with other analysts, policy teams and stakeholders to ensure that policies are informed by the best available evidence?
If so, then we would love for you to apply!, Evaluation at DfT is about applying established and innovative methods to high-profile, national policy challenges. This includes improving transport for all, enabling economic growth across the UK and protecting the environment. This is an exciting time to join DfT as we have a challenging and innovative agenda to deliver.
DfT has a well-developed portfolio of evaluation projects. Its Evaluation Programme was established in 2013, and the latest version of our Evaluation Strategy and Programme was published in June 2022.
We are looking for an exceptional evaluation analyst to play a leading role in delivering DfT's Evaluation Programme and supporting our growing network of evaluation specialists. The role is located in our Evaluation Centre of Excellence, and entails working collaboratively with policy teams and analysts in a wide range of policy areas, from high-speed rail to cycling and walking, to develop and support effective evaluation research.
The post holder will identify, scope and design evaluation projects to address DfT's evidence priorities, including both embedding evaluation in the delivery of new interventions and designing retrospective evaluations of past interventions. There may also be opportunities for the post holder to undertake in-house data analysis to support evaluation.
Other key priorities which the post holder will contribute towards include enhancing DfT's evaluation guidance, exploring innovative methods and data sources (e.g. mobile network data), developing our approach to value-for-money evaluation and strengthening the use of evaluation evidence in policy development.
The role is located in DfT's Evaluation Centre of Excellence, in our Analysis Directorate, and reports to the Head of Evaluation Programme. The team also includes one other Grade 7 evaluation specialist and two Senior Research Officers.
You will also play a leading role in a multi-disciplinary 'evaluation network' of 25 analysts across DfT and maintain close links with a range of other specialists including social researchers in the wider Social and Behavioural Research division, economists engaged with appraisal and modelling, data scientists and science and engineering professionals., + Draw on a strong understanding of evaluation approaches and methods to make the case for, scope and develop cross-cutting evaluation solutions to ensure DfT learns about the effectiveness of its principal policies and projects;
+ Gain and deploy a thorough understanding of the evidence base from transport evaluations to ensure this informs evaluation planning, appraisal and policy development;
+ Provide technical leadership to advise policy teams and analysts on specific evaluation projects, influencing their specification, commissioning and delivery to maximise the robustness of the research and the value of the resulting evidence, focusing on areas where evaluation can have the most impact;
+ Provide analytical scrutiny and challenge for evaluation outputs to ensure findings are robust, defensible and policy-relevant;
+ Build trusted relationships and communicate effectively with wider stakeholders for transport evaluation evidence, including DfT evaluation leads, transport appraisal specialists and policy colleagues, as well as stakeholders in other government departments, delivery bodies, local authorities or academia;
+ Champion the role of evaluation in the delivery of DfT's programmes and help build capability by supporting dissemination and promoting best practice, including through delivery of training to other analysts.
For an in-depth insight into the role please refer to the Role Profile., We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Communicating and Influencing
+ Seeing the Big Picture
+ Delivering at Pace
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
+ Technical skill 1 - will be aligned to the relative profession, please refer to the Role Profile for details on technical skills that may be assessed, The sift is due to take place from 10th June 2025.
Interviews/assessments are likely to be held w/c 30th June 2025.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
+ An interview
+ A presentation
This interview could be conducted online via Teams or face to face at one of our offices. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
You're encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.
Reasonable Adjustments
As a Disability Confident Leader employer, DfT is committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes., A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
Feedback
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.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
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).
Apply and further information
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
This role is suitable for an experienced analyst who is keen to use and develop their technical evaluation skills. You will need to be confident in your understanding of a range of evaluation methods, and be good at developing new evaluation solutions to meet evidence needs.
You will have extensive experience of working as a professional social researcher, statistician, economist or other analyst. This will include experience of scoping, design, conduct and analysis of monitoring and evaluation projects, covering a range of impact evaluation approaches such as experimental, quasi-experimental and theory-based evaluation, value-for-money evaluation and process evaluation.
You are able to build effective working relationships with both colleagues and stakeholders, tailoring your support to meet their needs, giving trusted technical advice and providing constructive challenge where appropriate, to support the achievement of business objectives.
You will have excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing, with the ability to adapt your delivery to suit a wide variety of audiences, maximising both impact and understanding.
You will have confidence in your ability to make a real impact within our team and across the Department's evaluation projects, leading from the front and driving those around you to achieve shared objectives. You will have excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple and often conflicting priorities to time while delivering to a high standard.
Experience of working in transport is not a requirement of this role; this can be learned by candidates who have the forms of experience set out above.
We welcome applications from all analytical professions; Statisticians, Operational Research, Economists and Social Researchers. As part of the selection process you be tested against the technical framework for your profession. Please highlight clearly in your application form which profession you are affiliated with as you will be assessed against the professional standards framework aligned to chosen profession., + Experience of scoping, design, conduct and analysis of monitoring and evaluation projects, covering a range of impact evaluation approaches (such as experimental, quasi-experimental and theory-based impact evaluation), value-for-money evaluation and process evaluation.
+ Excellent technical evaluation skills and the ability to apply these to design, deliver or quality-assure high-quality counterfactual analysis.
+ Experience of working with a diverse range of stakeholders, including building effective relationships, tailoring support to meet their needs, providing technical advice, and communicating analytical findings to non-technical audiences.
Alongside your salary of £54,857, Department for Transport contributes £15,892 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Please note, the above example is based on the National minimum salary. The employer pension contribution will be 28.97% of your specific salary.
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.
Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport
Would you like to lead evaluation that improves how transport infrastructure and policies are delivered for people?
Do you enjoy using technical evaluation skills to deliver impactful analysis?
Do you enjoy working collaboratively with other analysts, policy teams and stakeholders to ensure that policies are informed by the best available evidence?
If so, then we would love for you to apply!, Evaluation at DfT is about applying established and innovative methods to high-profile, national policy challenges. This includes improving transport for all, enabling economic growth across the UK and protecting the environment. This is an exciting time to join DfT as we have a challenging and innovative agenda to deliver.
DfT has a well-developed portfolio of evaluation projects. Its Evaluation Programme was established in 2013, and the latest version of our Evaluation Strategy and Programme was published in June 2022.
We are looking for an exceptional evaluation analyst to play a leading role in delivering DfT's Evaluation Programme and supporting our growing network of evaluation specialists. The role is located in our Evaluation Centre of Excellence, and entails working collaboratively with policy teams and analysts in a wide range of policy areas, from high-speed rail to cycling and walking, to develop and support effective evaluation research.
The post holder will identify, scope and design evaluation projects to address DfT's evidence priorities, including both embedding evaluation in the delivery of new interventions and designing retrospective evaluations of past interventions. There may also be opportunities for the post holder to undertake in-house data analysis to support evaluation.
Other key priorities which the post holder will contribute towards include enhancing DfT's evaluation guidance, exploring innovative methods and data sources (e.g. mobile network data), developing our approach to value-for-money evaluation and strengthening the use of evaluation evidence in policy development.
The role is located in DfT's Evaluation Centre of Excellence, in our Analysis Directorate, and reports to the Head of Evaluation Programme. The team also includes one other Grade 7 evaluation specialist and two Senior Research Officers.
You will also play a leading role in a multi-disciplinary 'evaluation network' of 25 analysts across DfT and maintain close links with a range of other specialists including social researchers in the wider Social and Behavioural Research division, economists engaged with appraisal and modelling, data scientists and science and engineering professionals., + Draw on a strong understanding of evaluation approaches and methods to make the case for, scope and develop cross-cutting evaluation solutions to ensure DfT learns about the effectiveness of its principal policies and projects;
+ Gain and deploy a thorough understanding of the evidence base from transport evaluations to ensure this informs evaluation planning, appraisal and policy development;
+ Provide technical leadership to advise policy teams and analysts on specific evaluation projects, influencing their specification, commissioning and delivery to maximise the robustness of the research and the value of the resulting evidence, focusing on areas where evaluation can have the most impact;
+ Provide analytical scrutiny and challenge for evaluation outputs to ensure findings are robust, defensible and policy-relevant;
+ Build trusted relationships and communicate effectively with wider stakeholders for transport evaluation evidence, including DfT evaluation leads, transport appraisal specialists and policy colleagues, as well as stakeholders in other government departments, delivery bodies, local authorities or academia;
+ Champion the role of evaluation in the delivery of DfT's programmes and help build capability by supporting dissemination and promoting best practice, including through delivery of training to other analysts.
For an in-depth insight into the role please refer to the Role Profile., We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Communicating and Influencing
+ Seeing the Big Picture
+ Delivering at Pace
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
+ Technical skill 1 - will be aligned to the relative profession, please refer to the Role Profile for details on technical skills that may be assessed, The sift is due to take place from 10th June 2025.
Interviews/assessments are likely to be held w/c 30th June 2025.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
+ An interview
+ A presentation
This interview could be conducted online via Teams or face to face at one of our offices. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
You're encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.
Reasonable Adjustments
As a Disability Confident Leader employer, DfT is committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes., A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
Feedback
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.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
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).
Apply and further information
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
This role is suitable for an experienced analyst who is keen to use and develop their technical evaluation skills. You will need to be confident in your understanding of a range of evaluation methods, and be good at developing new evaluation solutions to meet evidence needs.
You will have extensive experience of working as a professional social researcher, statistician, economist or other analyst. This will include experience of scoping, design, conduct and analysis of monitoring and evaluation projects, covering a range of impact evaluation approaches such as experimental, quasi-experimental and theory-based evaluation, value-for-money evaluation and process evaluation.
You are able to build effective working relationships with both colleagues and stakeholders, tailoring your support to meet their needs, giving trusted technical advice and providing constructive challenge where appropriate, to support the achievement of business objectives.
You will have excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing, with the ability to adapt your delivery to suit a wide variety of audiences, maximising both impact and understanding.
You will have confidence in your ability to make a real impact within our team and across the Department's evaluation projects, leading from the front and driving those around you to achieve shared objectives. You will have excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple and often conflicting priorities to time while delivering to a high standard.
Experience of working in transport is not a requirement of this role; this can be learned by candidates who have the forms of experience set out above.
We welcome applications from all analytical professions; Statisticians, Operational Research, Economists and Social Researchers. As part of the selection process you be tested against the technical framework for your profession. Please highlight clearly in your application form which profession you are affiliated with as you will be assessed against the professional standards framework aligned to chosen profession., + Experience of scoping, design, conduct and analysis of monitoring and evaluation projects, covering a range of impact evaluation approaches (such as experimental, quasi-experimental and theory-based impact evaluation), value-for-money evaluation and process evaluation.
+ Excellent technical evaluation skills and the ability to apply these to design, deliver or quality-assure high-quality counterfactual analysis.
+ Experience of working with a diverse range of stakeholders, including building effective relationships, tailoring support to meet their needs, providing technical advice, and communicating analytical findings to non-technical audiences.
Alongside your salary of £54,857, Department for Transport contributes £15,892 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Please note, the above example is based on the National minimum salary. The employer pension contribution will be 28.97% of your specific salary.
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.
Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport
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