Monitoring and Evaluation lead Product Safety

The Role and Our TeamThis role sits within the OPSS analysis team, an interdisciplinary and collaborative team, with over 40 social researchers, economists, statisticians and data scientists. The team provides analytical support for all the Offices activity, adding value by harnessing our profession-specific expertise. We have a strong commitment to learning and development, maintaining strong links within DBT and HMG, and are not afraid to try new and innovative approaches to deliver our objectives. Are you passionate about using robust analysis to support the delivery of consumer and business benefits? This role provides a great opportunity to work alongside policy and regulatory colleagues to ensure that their work is delivering maximum impact. OPSSs commitment to monitoring and evaluation is set out in the OPSS monitoring and evaluation framework and we have been building up the internal capability to deliver against this framework. This role will be responsible for the delivery and strategic direction of monitoring and evaluation in OPSS, building on the work that has taken place over the last two years. The role is based in a G6 Social Research team, consisting of 11 social researchers and will work closely with the other 30 analysts in our wider team. We have a strong commitment to collaborative working with other parts of OPSS, to ensure that we are delivering robust and useful analysis. We also have the joint head of profession for social research as our deputy director.OPSSs mix of regulatory activity, from policy to enforcement of regulations, makes OPSS an exciting and challenging place to work. OPSS has a strong commitment to development and puts a lot of effort into bringing roughly 500 OPSS colleagues together to learn and share information.Key Responsibilities: The role will be responsible for:Providing strategic and delivery leadership for monitoring and evaluation activity in OPSS. This will include:prioritisation of projects for scoping and delivery;leading the synthesis and communication of learning from monitoring and evaluation projects;activity managing 6 junior researchers who contribute to monitoring and evaluation development and delivery;engagement across OPSS, including at senior level boards, to provide progress updates and seek input to future monitoring and evaluation needs.line managing up to 3 junior researchers.contributing to the wider work of the social research team through working with specific policy or programme teams to provide wider research support as needed.engaging across the analysis team to build relationships, bring in support needed for monitoring and evaluation, and to contribute to wider analysis projects.