Associate Advisor/Advisor - Home Affairs and International Programmes

The Behavioural Insights Team

Location London
Salary Advisor - £33,915 - £45,885 per annum, plus benefits & Associate Advisor - £25,840 - £34,960 per annum, plus benefits
Team Home Affairs and International Programmes
  • Closing: 12:00pm, 2nd Jul 2018 BST

Job Description

Associate Advisor/Advisor for Home Affairs and International programmes

Permanent: 39 hours per week

Salary range: Advisor - £33,915 - £45,885 per annum, plus benefits Salary range: Associate - £25,840 - £34,960 per annum, plus benefits

Based in Central London

The Behavioural Insights Team

The then Prime Minister created BIT in 2010 to apply behavioural science to public policy in the UK. In 2014 we became a social purpose company, owned by the Cabinet Office, Nesta (an innovation charity) and our employees.

The Behavioural Insights Team works with governments around the world in almost every policy area. Whilst the subject and output of our projects varies considerably, there are common threads: we try to understand the contexts in which people make decisions; we notice small details; we find out what has and hasn’t worked before; and we measure everything we do as robustly as we can.

BIT selects staff on the basis of our organisation’s values: always prioritising social impact; empiricism and humility; fresh thinking, collaboration; and public service.

Roles and Responsibilities

The Home Affairs and Security team currently works closely with the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice and several Police forces. You will work on a range of projects across these policy domains looking at ways in which behavioural insights can be applied to policy problems. For example, can you find a way to reduce re-offending by examining the potential for ‘teachable moments’ within an offender’s journey through the criminal justice system? Can you design a scalable intervention that helps to increase trust between communities?

Whilst much project work is focussed on operational or public policy matters, such as crime prevention or social cohesion, BIT also supports partners in organisational behaviour matters too. For this reason, the successful candidate may also be someone with expertise in Organisational Behaviour. For example, how can you increase morale and staff engagement among Prison Officers? How can we help public sector bodies successfully recruit staff who proportionately represent the communities they serve?

You must be confident in your ability to apply behavioural science to come up with interesting and practical policy interventions. You will think on your feet in meetings with senior officials and suggest workable solutions to complex policy challenges. You can also spot potential issues with public policy interventions and identify how behavioural science can address them.

This role will support a range of projects, providing advice and project management. You will lead aspects of projects, working to a Senior or Principal Advisor. You will also undertake discrete pieces of work (such as literature reviews, quantitative analysis or qualitative field work). Broadly speaking, you will work on two types of projects: field trials, where you will support the design and implementation of large-scale randomised controlled trials with partners across the criminal justice system in the UK predominantly but potentially overseas too; and policy advice at a more strategic level where you will not lead on the implementation of an impact evaluation.

Essential
  • An understanding of the behavioural science literature, particularly how it can be applied to public policy issues relating to Home Affairs;
  • Strong project management skills;
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication, for example the ability to write concisely for government ministers or senior officials;
  • Strong experience of working in a team
  • Strategic thinking, challenging existing assumptions and thinking of creative solutions to problems;
Desirable

Finally, it would be desirable if you have: *A good knowledge of wider research findings relating to Crime, Justice and Home Affairs;

  • Competent analytical skills and an understanding of mixed methods of research and evaluation
  • Experience working on the development or delivery of policy in government, academia, industry, or for a consulting firm or a design agency;
  • A Masters in a relevant subject area (including, but not limited to behavioural economics, psychology, design thinking, evaluation methods, criminology) or work experience in a relevant field.
Please note:
  • If you do not already hold the right to work in the UK and/or require sponsorship in order to continue working here, you should think carefully before applying. This is because we will be unable to sponsor you unless there is no other suitably qualified settled worker available to fill the role or your current immigration status means that the resident labour market test will not apply in your case.

  • To find out more about the organisation and the type of people who work in the team visit: http://www.behaviouralinsights.co.uk

  • The Behavioural Insights Team is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

  • Some of the personal data you provide to Applied when you apply for a role with The Behavioural Insights Team will be passed on to The Behavioural Insights Team for the purposes of (a) reviewing your application; (b) inviting you for interview; and/or (c) offering you a job and getting you set up as an employee/contractor.

  • If your application is not successful, any personal data provided to us by Applied (including any personal data relating to equal opportunities monitoring as set out above) will be retained by The Behavioural Insights Team for no longer than 6 months after the application deadline has passed (other than in exceptional circumstances where we may need to retain your personal data for longer), at which point your personal data will be securely deleted. We only keep your information for that period in order to allow us to comply with relevant legal obligations. We're looking for

Removing bias from the hiring process

Applications closed Mon 2nd Jul 2018

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Removing bias from the hiring process

  • Your application will be anonymously reviewed by our hiring team to ensure fairness
  • You’ll need a CV/résumé, but it’ll only be considered if you score well on the anonymous review

Applications closed Mon 2nd Jul 2018