Analyst – Summer Internship Reading, England
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Drop In: You can find out about us and get more information about the role by attending our drop-in session. You will have the opportunity to talk to people doing the job and ask any questions, including about the recruitment process from application to interview through to offer. You can join the session on 14/03/2023 from 12:00-13:00 Click here to join the meeting
The TRA is one of the first public bodies to be set up to meet the new needs of the UK following its departure from the European Union. We play a central part in ensuring that the international trading environment is fair as well as free, by protecting British businesses from unfair trading practices such as dumping, trade-distorting subsidies and unforeseen surges in imports.
We are growing to be an organisation of over 150 people, with our headquarters in central Reading. It is vital to me that we have a friendly, supportive culture, where you will quickly get to know who works here and where you will be helped to realise your full potential. We strive to be an outward-looking organisation, learning from international best practice and looking to add our own distinctive twist, such as developing our digital-first approach to trade remedy investigations. As an arm’s length body that is independent of government, we are passionate about living our values of integrity, expertise, transparency, and inclusion.
We are looking for professionals who bring relevant skills and expertise but who are also eager to learn and develop. Nobody joins the TRA as the finished article. If you believe that you have the experience and qualities to put your stamp on something new and exciting, we very much look forward to hearing from you.
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Blog:Economics in action: what being an Economic Analyst Intern at the TRA entails - Trade Remedies Authority (blog.gov.uk)
The Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) is a non-departmental public body established following Royal Assent of the Trade Act 2021. The TRA is an independent arm’s length body that conducts investigations concerning unfair trading practices including dumped and subsidised imports. Based on its findings, the TRA advises the Secretary of State for the Department of International Trade whether additional import duties or tariff rate quotas should be applied to the goods concerned. The TRA is based in central Reading and has around 150 staff, with its own analysts, corporate support staff and legal specialists, as well as investigators.
This role sits within the analyst team which comprises three units, each reporting to the Chief Economist. Data and evidence are critical to the determinations made by the TRA. Analysts achieve this by setting professional standards, developing tools and techniques and assurance processes. Importantly, analysts lead the economic interest test, which is a novel feature of the UK trade remedies system.
Your role will be at the heart of delivering this crucial function. You will be responsible for championing best practice in qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis techniques and quality assurance processes across the TRA. You will support analysts on conducting the economic interest test on trade remedies cases, which involves interrogating multiple strands of data to draw logical and robust conclusions. You will have the opportunity to work in multi-disciplinary teams. Learning from other qualified professionals and getting involved in all aspects of analysis.
Key Accountabilities:
In this role you will:
- Support analyst colleagues with conducting economic analysis;
- Support the development of data collection tools and techniques, such as designing stakeholder questionnaires;
- Support multi-disciplinary case teams with quantitative and qualitative data analysis and interrogating secondary data sources;
- Support case teams with their approach to stakeholder engagement including capturing the views of businesses and consumers;
- Undertake ad-hoc research-based tasks including secondary data analysis.
Responsibilities may vary depending on the skills and experience of the successful candidate, as well as customer needs.
Person specification
To be successful in this role applicants should demonstrate the following:
- You should be willing to learn and develop knowledge and skills about trade remedy investigations, applying WTO guidance and UK trade remedy policy and legislation to casework;
- You should be collaborative by supporting work across the organisation and developing effective working relationships with stakeholders;
- You should be curious about exploring relationships in data and getting to the heart of issues as part of your analytical projects.
Essential Criteria:
- Must be in their penultimate or final year of working towards the following qualifications:
- A bachelor's degree in economics, or similar analytical field (e.g. Statistics, Econometrics, Mathematics, Data Science) with at least 50% of the units having some economics content.
- Knowledge and/or interest in international trade;
- Ability to apply economic concepts and analytical techniques to real world situations;
- Ability to provide effective and appropriate written and oral communication of economic analysis to technical and non-technical audiences;
- Ability to use or willingness to learn software packages such as MS Excel and R Studio;
- Ability to respond flexibly and rapidly when needed, as well as to take a longer-term perspective about your work and its impact.
Desirable Criteria:
- Ability to analyse and handle data to support policy advice and generate evidence-based conclusions.
Qualifications
A bachelor's degree in economics, or similar analytical field (e.g. Statistics, Econometrics, Mathematics, Data Science) with at least 50% of the units having some economics content.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Working Together
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
Benefits
Our employment package offers a range of benefits including:
- flexible working practices, such as hybrid working, part-time, compressed or annualised hours, to help you strike a balance between home and work life.
- 9 public/privilege holidays and 25 days’ annual leave rising to 30 days after 5 years’.
- access to a market-leading Civil Service Pension Scheme with employer contributions around 27%.
- capability based pay, which means that you have the ability to be paid more as you build your capability with us.
support, tools and techniques for you to manage your health and wellbeing. - access to a range of learning and development opportunities, and talent programmes.
- a reward scheme to recognise your great work or demonstration of our values.
- interest-free loans to spread the cost of season tickets, a new bicycle, or rental deposit.
- a discount scheme providing access to hundreds of discounted offers to help you make significant savings from a range of shops and brands.
- a modern office close to Reading train station with convenient access to local amenities.
- up to 6 days volunteer leave to support your personal development and our wider community.
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Selection process details
To apply, you will need to complete a CV and a personal statement. Your CV (up to two pages) should set out your education as well as any employment history, to demonstrate how you meet the requirement of the role. Your personal statement (maximum 750 words) should provide detailed evidence demonstrating how your experience, skills and attributes meet the requirements for the role. Our guide for candidates provides more useful information (link).
Shortlist: The panel will consider your application against the essential and desirable criteria for the role. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview.
Interview: The interview assessment will consist of a presentation exercise as well as experience, strength and behavioural-based questions and some short data analysis questions. We use Civil Service Success Profiles (link) to interview for our roles. The behaviours that you will be assessed against at interview are Working together, Making effective decisions, and Communicating and influencing. Interviews will be held online on MS Teams.
Expected timeline:
- Application closes 26/03/2023
- Shortlist 27/03/2023
- Interviews 10/04/2023
- Offers 17/04/2023
- Please note that we try and offer as much flexibility as we can, but it may not always be possible to offer alternative interview dates.
Existing Civil Servants and applicants from accredited NDPBs are eligible to apply, but will only be considered on loan basis (Civil Servants) or secondment (accredited NDPBs). Prior agreement to be released on a loan basis must be obtained before commencing the application process. In the case of Civil Servants, the terms of the loan will be agreed between the home and host department and the Civil Servant. This includes grade on return.
If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing [email protected] stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
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A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.
Any move to the Trade Remedies Authority from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
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If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
Contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the ‘Assistance required’ section in the ‘Additional requirements’ page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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