Leadership Diversity and Corporate Reporting SEO Analyst

Are you interested in working on issues that support economic growth, strengthen corporate transparency, and promote greater diversity in business leadership? Do you want the opportunity to work with a wide variety of stakeholders, including policy officials, analysts across government, and business leaders? 

The Company Law and Governance Directorate (CLG) is responsible for maintaining world-class standards of company law, corporate governance and corporate reporting that support UK businesses and economic growth. Our work helps support investment in the UK, promotes responsible and transparent corporate conduct, and strengthens public trust in business. 

CLG is recruiting a Senior Executive Officer (SEO) analyst to support priority areas of the Directorate's work: leadership diversity analysis and corporate reporting analysis. 

The CLG Analysis Team is a Grade 6-led embedded, multi-disciplinary team. We support the full breadth of CLG's portfolio, including corporate transparency, corporate reporting, corporate governance and boardroom diversity. We work collaboratively and flexibly across workstreams, providing opportunities to develop a broad range of analytical skills and experience in supporting policy development, implementation and evaluation. 

We work closely with partners across government and beyond. This includes collaboration with organisations such as Companies House, the Financial Reporting Council, HM Treasury, HMRC, leadership diversity reviews, business representatives and other government departments. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to deliver impactful analysis that directly informs Ministerial decision-making and shapes the future direction of UK business policy.

This role will provide analytical advice and evidence to support the Government's work on leadership diversity and corporate reporting reform. 

You will lead analytical work across two high-profile BIST portfolios: the UK's flagship leadership diversity reviews (the Parker Review and the Women Business Leaders Review), and major reforms to modernise UK corporate reporting framework. You will oversee the collection and analysis of large-scale datasets, provide analytical advice on corporate reporting, transparency and anti-corruption policies, and work closely with policy teams, diversity review leadership teams and external stakeholders to strengthen the evidence base underpinning future reforms. Through thiswork, you will help monitor diversity in senior leadership positions across UK businesses and support the delivery of the Government's wider growth and regulatory reform objectives. 

We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive analyst who can lead analytical projects across a diverse portfolio of work. You will be expected to apply appropriate analytical methods to policy questions, working with a wide range of stakeholders to generate evidence that informs decision-making. 

You will be comfortable managing competing priorities, delivering high-quality analysis to challenging deadlines, and communicating findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. You will work collaboratively with policy colleagues, analysts, external stakeholders and senior leaders to ensure that evidence is used effectively in the development, delivery and evaluation of government policy. 

The below is a list of characteristics which may be helpful in this role. These will not be assessed throughout the recruitment process, but are laid out to help candidates understand more about the role.

This role would generally suit someone who; 

• Lead the delivery of analytical projects across the leadership diversity and corporate reporting portfolios, ensuring high-quality evidence informs policy development, implementation and evaluation. 

• Own the analytical delivery timetable for key analytical outputs and publications, coordinating data collection, quality assurance, analysis and publication activities to meet agreed deadlines. 

• Draft impact assessments, contribute to Post-Implementation Reviews, develop evaluation strategies, and provide analytical input to consultation responses, ministerial submissions and other policy products. 

• Design and lead primary research and evidence-gathering projects, selecting and applying appropriate analytical and research methods. 

• Apply and maintain robust analytical processes, research methodologies and quality assurance procedures to support the production of high-quality analytical outputs, publications and statistical releases. 

• Produce high-quality briefings and presentations for review chairs, steering groups, senior officials and Ministers. 

• Work closely with policy teams, review leadership teams, regulators, other government departments and external stakeholders, including businesses, to identify analytical priorities, strengthen the evidence base and inform decision-making. 

• Promote the effective use of evidence and analysis to support the Government's objectives on economic growth, regulatory reform, corporate transparency, diversity and business leadership. 

Essential Criteria 

The criteria below are essential and will be assessed at application stage: 

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively with policy teams, senior leaders, external stakeholders and analytical colleagues. 

• Demonstrable experience of applying economics, social research, statistical, operational research or mixed-method analytical techniques to generate evidence and inform decision-making. 

• Experience of managing analytical projects independently, balancing competing priorities and delivering high-quality outputs to demanding timescales. 

• Ability to interpret complex evidence, identify key insights and communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. 

• Understanding of, or willingness to develop expertise in, analytical governance and evaluation frameworks, including the Green Book, Magenta Book, and Better Regulation Framework. 

Desirable Criteria 

The below criteria are desirable only. These will not be assessed throughout the recruitment process, but will be used in the event of tied scores between candidates;

• Experience of managing externally commissioned research projects or research contracts. 

• Experience of working with business-related datasets, such as company registers, financial disclosures, business demographics or survey data. 

• Experience of supporting policy development, consultations, impact assessments or legislation through the provision of analytical evidence. 

• Experience of using R for data management, data cleaning, statistical analysis, data visualisation and the production of reproducible analytical workflows.