Job type: Permanent
Salary: The national salary range is £41,463 - £45,276, London salary range is £47,657 - £52,040. Your salary will be dependent on your base location
Region: National
Working Pattern: Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share, Flexible Working
Closing Date: 19 Feb 2025
The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) have a SEO role available in the Counter Terrorism Assessment and Rehabilitation Centre (CT-ARC), research team. The Research Team sits within the wider MOJ Analysis Directorate but is bedded into CT-ARC which sits in Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), Intervention Services.
They 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. These are in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Ipswich, Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Stafford, South Tyneside, Weston-Supermare and Wolverhampton. This will be discussed and agreed on the completion of background checks.
Roles are open to:
- Existing analysts from the Government Statistical Service (GSS), Government Social Research (GSR), Government Economics Service (GES), Government Operational Research Service (GORS), Data Science or either on level transfer or on promotion, and
- Other analysts or researchers that are not members of the professions listed above but possess and can demonstrate similar experience at the appropriate level. Badging opportunities will be available once in post for those who wish to apply.
Interviews are likely to take place in February 2025 and will be held via MS Teams. A merit list will be kept for a year for those who successfully pass the interview board but who are not offered a post.
About the role
We have an CT Interventions Analytical lead role within the Counter Terrorism Assessment and Rehabilitation centre (CT-ARC) research team. This role will help ensure that CT-ARC are developing interventions, assessments and supporting processes that incorporate and are informed by the evidence. The work will include evaluation, including short-term evaluations and process evaluation, of interventions designed to help people serving sentences in prison and probation to desist from terrorist offending as well as evaluation of assessment tools. There is a need to build on this evidence in response to ongoing development of our assessments and interventions and to build capability to measure long-term outcomes. This role will involve working closely with wider CT-ARC national specialist leads who develop the interventions and assessments as well as the Quality Assurance team who consider how well our products are being implemented. You will also help carry out analysis to support meetings we have with our Correctional Services Accreditation and Advice Panel as well as other primary research.
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What you’ll do
You will lead on the research and evaluation, producing evaluation plans, managing and coordinating the fieldwork and analysis to inform the product development. This is a fast paced and high-profile role which involves working closely with analytical and operational colleagues across MoJ/HMPPS. We are looking for someone who is proactive and confident in scoping and developing evaluations and analytical projects and driving them forwards. This includes quickly grasping key evaluation questions, methodological challenges and driving forward innovation to ensure that we develop the evidence base.
The role will involve developing our current data capability to produce analytically driven assessment practice in the counter terrorism space. The role will be based in a team of five analysts, a team leader and four analysts who are responsible for the day-to-day delivery of research. This will include opportunities to work across the team on key research into the terrorist cohort across the HMPPS custody and probation spaces, as well as Home Office and Counter Terrorism Police.
Specifically, this post will include:
- Working with a wide range of senior stakeholders, to develop an agreed evaluation plan for the Healthy Identity Intervention. This will include reviewing existing data sources and developing a data strategy to exploit this, including recommendations for improvements.
- Producing actionable findings for operational and policy development. This will include analysis to improve our understanding the effectiveness of HII, it’s alignment with risk assessment tools, to provide insight into whether the intervention is delivering on rehabilitative aims.
- Documenting analysis and learning, to improve current data documentation and guidance on the appropriate use of imperfect or incomplete data, so that the maximum value is extracted, and inappropriate use is avoided.
- Support wider evaluation work into what works for whom, when and how, in terms of current Counter Terrorism risk management and assessment practices used in HMPPS context.
- Identifying relevant conferences to attend and present research publications (subject to approval for funding), to ensure that work benefits from external academic engagement.