Assistant Statistician

Job description

Do you want to use your analytical skills to help shape Scotland's future?

The Scottish Government works to make Scotland a more successful country and a better place to live. Having the right people producing and communicating powerful analysis is vital to helping us achieve this.

Our statistical roles are ideal for motivated, creative people who want to use their skills to make a real difference to the lives of people in Scotland. You’ll have the opportunity to work across a wide range of policy areas including Health, Education and the Economy contributing high‑profile analysis from the outset and being supported to develop your expertise.

Statisticians are involved in designing, collecting, analysing and publishing statistics. Roles within the Scottish Government are varied and require strong data skills, technical ability and analytical thinking to identify patterns and trends. We’re looking for people who can clearly communicate what statistics show to a wide range of audiences, and who have strong people skills to build effective relationships with policy colleagues and data users to improve our statistics.

The posts we are recruiting for in this campaign are within Scottish Government agencies and non-ministerial offices in the Scottish administration such as National Records of Scotland and Social Security Scotland. Dependent on changes to recruitment controls in Scottish Government core, we may use this competition to fill roles in Scottish Government. In line with our current ways of working, we follow a hybrid working approach, where colleagues use a mix of office based and home working. Hybrid policies may differ depending if you are allocated to a role in Scottish Government core or agencies.

Further information about Statistics group can be found at on the Statistics Group Sharepoint page [https://scotsconnect.sharepoint.com/sites/StatisticsGroup-Org-SG] or the Statistics profession - Scottish Government Jobs site [https://www.jobs.gov.scot/statistics-profession].

Responsibilities Typical duties are as follows: (individual posts may differ)

• Collect and acquire data that provides evidence for Government policy and decision making. 
• Use technical abilities to clean, process and manage the data for analysis. 
• Make sense of what the data is saying using data management and statistical techniques to provide insights. 
• Communicate the messages from the data to a range of audiences via statistical publications. 
• Work with users to ensure statistics and data produced meet their requirements. 
• Use innovative approaches to improve processes in the production of statistics. 
• Work in a collective and collaborative environment across individual teams and the Statistics Group as a whole.