Head of Performance Analysis

About the Government Legal Department

From healthcare to artificial intelligence, energy to national security, we provide legal advice to government departments on nation-changing subjects.

At Government Legal Department we have a vital, single-minded purpose: to help the Government govern well within the rule of law. This is complemented by our exciting vision to be an outstanding legal organisation, committed to the highest standards of service and professionalism and a brilliant place to work where we can all thrive and fulfill our potential.

Our work touches almost every aspect of public life. We are the largest provider of legal services across government, working on high profile matters.

Our respected professionals are involved in everything from regulation and litigation to advice on drafting legislation. They provide expertise to the full range of government departments. We are at the heart of delivering the governments priorities and our success depends on our people.

GLD is a non-ministerial government department headed by the Treasury Solicitor, our Permanent Secretary, and employs nearly 4000 people, including nearly 3000 legal professionals. We have offices nationwide, in Bristol, Leeds, inner and outer London and Manchester. Our lawyers can also be located within other departments and overseas.

GLD also depends on a range of cross-functional professionals to provide our corporate services. There are nearly 1000 colleagues playing an essential part in helping GLD to achieve its purpose and truly deliver much more than law.

This is an exciting time to join GLD, with cutting edge legal work on global issues and a transformation agenda which is ensuring the Department exemplifies the Modern Civil Service .

To find out more about what we do you can view our introductory film . On our website y ou can hear from team members, find out how to apply and learn about the benefits of working for GLD. You can also read more about the future vision for GLD in our GLD Strategy 2024 2027 .

About the Chief Operating Officer Group

The Chief Operating Officer Group (COO Group) is led by a DG level Chief Operating Officer who, along with two other COO Group Directors are members of GLDs Executive Team. The Group enables GLD to deliver excellent legal services by providing high quality, efficient and user centred corporate services.

These cover a wide breadth of professions and functions, including Finance, Commercial, HR, Digital, Communications, Policy, Legal Operations, Knowledge and Information Management, Security, Project Delivery and many more. It operates in partnership with the rest of GLD to enable the department to succeed.

The COO Group is committed to ensuring that GLD is using the most modern corporate and operational service approaches from the Civil Service and wider legal sector to maximise their impact and value for GLD, and ultimately the departmental clients it supports. As such the very essence of the COO Group is a commitment to continuous improvement and evolution; thinking differently about how we can integrate and automate the delivery of our services, providing the best user experience for users whilst ensuring the best career offer for those delivering those services.

The Group is around 450 strong and comprises three directorates with staff spread across all of GLDs national locations:

• Finance, Operations and Digital (Executive Team member)
• Strategy, People and Culture (Executive Team member)
• Legal Operations

The COO Group is embarking on a new and ambitious approach to the development and delivery of performance analysis across GLD, driving excellence and integration in everything it does.

If you are excited about the opportunity to work at the heart of a Government Department that is helping every department enable the delivery of the Governments reform agenda, then this is somewhere you will thrive and grow. We look forward to hearing from you and welcoming you into our teams.

About the Role

Like many organisations the building a high-performance culture is at the heart of the Government Legal Departments (GLD) transformation. We know that this high-performance culture requires outstanding analysis and data professionals to communicate and assure the data and insight GLD uses to help it understand and drive our performance across both our legal and corporate services.

This post the opportunity to shape the performance and analysis landscape in a department that is critical to everything that the Government wants to deliver and is committed to being a role model for Civil Service reform.

This is an exciting role with the scope to really shape it. We are seeking a dynamic and ambitious data or analysis professional to build a new performance and analytics capability for GLD. This will be positioned in our central strategy team in the first instance; but your reach and impact will be GLD wide.

You will act as the senior performance and data analysis professional across the Department and forge new relationships and understanding between the power of analytics and the business, whilst building a new team of great data and analytical specialists.

You will be at the heart of shaping and leading a new community of practice, forging our data analysis and performance system and ensuring that best practice analytical and analysis tools are deployed consistently and efficiently across the Department. In doing so you will lead across the GLD system to shape and support our high-performance culture through great analysis.

Building best in class performance and analytics capablity is a vital part of our organisational transformation plans, GLD 2030. As such you will work closely with the Departments Executive Team and other key stakeholders to set the

strategic direction for performance analysis & data insights, ensuring that our performance framework reflects the GLDs performance goals and strategic priorities.

You will embed robust measurement frameworks, performance governance, and high-quality analytical practices across the organisation, using the modern tools and techniques.

In doing so you will help to simplify an inconsistent landscape and bring innovation to a refreshed system for developing and delivering performance analysis services and products which help to create a strengthened relationship between GLDs risk and performance systems, ensuring that these compliment each other in a dynamic way.

You will identify the rich picture of data which exists across GLDs legal and corporate service activities and work closely with the wider digital and data function to ensure that data is stored in a consistent, secure and accessible way to support the work of our new performance analysis capability.

Your ongoing professional leadership across GLD will also include working closely with, and providing direct support to, the Attorney Generals Office to support their performance and data requirements.

You will have responsibility for the delivery of high-quality performance and risk reports to GLDs Advisory Board, chaired by ...