Do you have the passion, values, and ability to help us solve the biggest problems of the justice system?
Cross-System Insights Analyst in the Criminal Justice System Insights Team
Overview
We have 1 role in the Criminal Justice System Insights Team, within the Analysis Directorate.
Roles are open to:
Existing badged analysts from all professions (GORS/GSS/GSR/GES) either on level transfer or on promotion.
Please note: this opportunity is only open to individuals currently employed within the Civil Service.
Specialist allowance
Due to the role(s) being analytical, those successful in recruitment will be eligible for a specialist allowance following an analytical interview based on the following values:
SEO London: £500
SEO National: £1500
Minimum requirements to apply:
Candidates must be able to show the relevant experience and skills and must meet the criteria for entry:
SEO grade:
You have significant work experience evidencing use of data and/or analytical skills. Time spent on an analytical PhD can count towards this.
We welcome applications from candidates based across the UK. Candidates will have the option of being based in the Leeds or London HQ offices (with flexible working arrangements available) or your nearest Justice Collaboration Centre or Justice Satellite Office: see this map for more details.
Alternative locations may be available and will be discussed and agreed on the completion of background checks.
Interviews are likely to take place in August 2026 and will be held via MS Teams. We will keep a merit list for a year for those who successfully pass the interview board but who are not offered a post.
About the Analysis Directorate
We are passionate about improving justice outcomes through innovative research, data and analysis. In the Analysis Directorate, we provide high quality data and analysis helping to ensure strategic, policy, finance, corporate and operational decisions are based on robust evidence.
We create a culture in which people are empowered with the data and information to make excellent decisions; using cutting edge tools, techniques and collaboration; putting evidence at the heart of the justice system.
We are a multi-disciplinary team of around 300 staff that sits at the heart of the Ministry of Justice providing analytical support across a diverse and exciting agenda. We work in a dynamic and fast-paced context and our skills are in heavy demand across the Ministry of Justice. Our collaborations beyond government are seen as ground-breaking. The Analysis community is made up of analysts and specialists including: Social Researchers, Economists, Operational Researchers, Statisticians, Data Engineers, Data Scientists and other data specialists (such as data strategists, data dissemination, generalists and assurance experts).
Why work in the Analysis Directorate?
In the Analysis Directorate, we want all our people to feel valued for who they are and for the work they do. We provide a warm, inclusive place to work and offer a wide range of flexibilities and benefits as part of our people offer to reward our staff.
What we offer
Flexible working arrangements and a focus on equality of opportunity - including welcoming part-time and/or job-share arrangements, compressed hours, working from home or your nearest Justice Collaboration Centres or Justice Satellite Office.
Career development - regular development and promotion opportunities across a wide range of roles, career development support, with a generous individual learning and development budget.
Range of new areas of work and new tools and techniques - we pride ourselves on our excellent deployment of well-established analytical methods, but also our progress to date. Progress such as our ambitious and innovative transformation programme to leverage departmental data and drive evidence-based decision-making using cutting-edge tools and techniques (for example: experimentation, personalisation, artificial intelligence).
Analysis is at the centre of the Department’s decision making - our transformation programme is focused on maximising our impact on departmental outcomes. The Ministry of Justice’s Senior Team and our Ministerial Team want all decisions to be evidence driven - your analysis will be key in influencing decisions and real-world impact.
Vibrant community - part of a multidisciplinary team that has a supportive culture and is looking to further develop the community with the help of everyone.
See the frontline and what your work is influencing - regular opportunities to visit our front-line service providers, including courts, prisons, and probation to better understand the areas your analysis is affecting.
What you’ll do
The successful candidate will support the Cross-System Insights team, within the CJS Insights unit, in the Justice System Modelling division.
The team comprises a G7 and 1 HEO, and provides data-driven insight on emerging trends across the criminal justice system. For example, recent work has included a deep-dive into the change in the crown court receipts and understanding the change in demand across the system, including upstream demand in police and CPS. These products are used to inform a variety of policy teams, senior leaders and high-priority policy decisions such as the planned court reforms.
The team also maintains and produces regular products, including a CJS monitoring pack which goes up to Ministers, and works with several analytical teams within and outside of MoJ (e.g. CPS, Home Office) to pull together coherent insights into cross-system performance.
There is also an opportunity to support the CJS Research and Insights team within the G6 area - this team runs surveys and social research-based deep dives with frontline staff to provide operational insight on the data trends we are seeing.
The job holder will be required to undertake the following duties and responsibilities:
Managing the production of the monthly CJS Insights Monitoring Pack which draws together projection tracking and insights across the MoJ CJS.
Proactively identifying trends and questions to investigate and completing deep dives into recent trends to explain deviations from projections
Communicating emerging and existing trends to policy and analytical audiences, including G7s and above; many outputs go up to Ministers
Responding to ad-hoc data asks on the CJS. Providing ad hoc analysis for Ministers, DGs, Operational stakeholders, and OGDs such as No. 10 and HMT, proactively ensuring that the right processes are followed and that figures are accurate and QA’d
Supporting the development of the Department’s short- and long-term prison population projections by providing ad-hoc support on projection improvement projects and by tracking how projections perform through time
Working flexibly to support other areas of the team where needed, to understand emerging trends in prisons and to complete social research analysis on surveys with and deep dives with frontline staff
Who you are
The following experience and skills will be required:
Collating, reviewing and analysing multiple datasets
Independently conducting analysis within quantitative analytical projects - in particular strong quantitative data and analysis judgement and skills
Identifying approaches to adapt analysis to suit stakeholders’ needs and actioning these
Managing partners’ expectations over time, dealing constructively with challenges and where appropriate adapting the analytical or data programme when requirements and circumstances change
Strong ability to plan, prioritise and lead an analytical project with challenging and competing timelines, including surfacing risks to delivery to managers and ensuring that QA processes are completed properly at pace
Strong Excel skills; experience with coding e.g. in R or Python
The following experience and skills are desirable:
Task management of HEO’s work
Experience feeding into submissions
Experience with running and analysing surveys and social research deep dives
How to apply
You’ll need to submit an anonymised work history and Statement of Suitability as part of your application. You will not be considered if you do not provide both.
Your work history should meet the following criteria: well structured, succinct, and written in clear language.
Your Statement of Suitability should be no more than 750 words and should give us examples of how your skills and experience match those needed for this role. Consider giving examples that cover all the requirements in the ‘Who you are’ section and use work you have completed to demonstrate how you meet each one.
You will be asked to supply evidence of your badged membership (GORS/GSS/GSR/GES) at application stage, this can consist of confirmation of passing the GORS/GSS/GSR/GES badging board or an email from your current line manager confirming your GORS/GSS/GSR/GES badged status. Applicants who do not provide this will be rejected.
5a. Selection Process
There will be an initial sift of applicants through comparing submitted evidence against the ‘Who you are’ bullets. This usually takes two weeks, depending on the number of applications.
Those who make it through the initial sift will be invited to a Civil Service Success Profile interview. In the Civil Service we use Success Profiles to help us find the right person for the job. We will be using a mixture of methods to assess your abilities, strengths, experience, technical skills, and behaviours. We highly recommend learning about Success Profiles and using the Situation, Task, Action, Result and Reflection (STARR) framework when structuring your answers.
The highest scoring candidates that pass the interview will be offered the roles. The whole process can take up to a month.
5b. Interview Process
Behaviours
You will be assessed against the Civil service success profiles framework at interview stage:
Communicating and Influencing
Delivering at Pace
Making effective decisions
Please also refer to the CS Behaviours framework for more details at this grade.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/717275/CS_Behaviours_2018.pdf
For existing analysts from all professions, as well as the three civil service behaviours stated above, you will be assessed on two sets of professional competencies at interview.
Professional Competencies
Professional Competency (1) Knowledge & Skills
GSS - Data Analysis.
GORS - Knowledge and application of OR Skills and Techniques.
GES - Analysis of Data.
GSR - Knowledge and application of GSR technical skills
Professional Competency (2) Influence & Impact
GSS - Presenting and disseminating data effectively.
GORS - Achieving impact with analysis.
GES - Effective communication.
GSR - using and promoting social research
For more information regarding Professional Competency (2) please refer to the analytical profession internet links below. Please note that some aspect of the professional competency may overlap with the MoJ competencies listed above. We therefore recommend that in providing evidence for the professional competency, candidates focus on the technical and methodology aspects of the competencies that are specific to the profession. We will use evidence presented for the MoJ competencies in assessing the wider skills candidates have.
Government Statistician Group (GSG): Further information, including a user guide, can be found within the link below:
GSG-competency-framework-2021-reviewed-february-2023
Government Social Research Service (GSR): Further information can be found within the link below:
GSR Competency Framework 2022
Government Operational Research Service (GORS): Further information can be found within the link below:
GORS Competencies
Government Economic Service (GES): Further information can be found within the link below:
GES Professional Standards 2022
6. Applicants invited for Interview
You will be required to give a 5-minute presentation at interview. Details of this will be sent to those candidates who are invited for interview.
7. Further Information
If you require any additional information about the role, please contact:
Hannah.corless@justice.gov.uk and amruta.patel1@justice.gov.uk