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Performance, Assurance and Evidence team

The purpose of the Performance, Assurance and Evidence (PAE) team is to oversee the performance of ministerial departments and public bodies in understanding and reducing the impact of fraud.

The team does this by monitoring the performance of public sector organisations, maintaining the evidence base for counter fraud and undertaking a range of assurance and review activities on behalf of the Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA).

This is an outward facing role working closely with a range of partners, both across the PSFA and in ministerial departments and public bodies.

Job description

In this role, you will develop performance measurement frameworks and analyse performance against these, adapting your approach and framework appropriately and in line with any changes.

As senior performance analyst you will look to delegate, automate or upskill others in analysis where possible and appropriate, provide leadership within your team and proactively use analysis to improve services.

At this role level, you will:

• be skilled and experienced at carrying out the day-to-day activities of a performance analyst, including setting up performance measurement frameworks.
• have excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to deliver complex data in a clear and succinct manner.
• carry out complex analysis, working with other teams where necessary.
• actively contribute to the performance analysis community across government, while forging links with other analytical disciplines.
• manage one or more performance analysts and ensure the team is equipped with the required skills

This is a wide-ranging post where the senior leaders will be looking for you to use your expertise and experience to drive forward our work and develop the thinking for the future. You will support the Heads of Performance, Assurance and Evidence on a number of key deliverables, including:

• Developing a process to understand performance across the system, which can be communicated with Ministers and senior officials. This will include understanding fraud performance in welfare and tax, alongside the work conducted by PSFA to push the rest of the system to perform more.
• Improving the understanding and insight of departments’ group performance through the analysis of the evidence base.
• Drafting the Fraud Landscape Report, using analysis and insights from the evidence base.
• Leading and optimising the analysis related to Financial Metrics (including counter fraud performance target setting and monitoring), by ensuring excellent analysis.

Your focus will depend upon the priority of the team at different times of the year.

Key deliverables and responsibilities

• Act as a performance lead for government departments and public bodies, working with their counter fraud leads to ensure performance metrics are in place and standards are being met to enhance the response to tackling fraud.
• Support senior leads in the team to deliver against the Performance, Assurance and Evidence commitments in the PSFA mandate, encouraging others to comply, providing high quality accurate reporting on outcomes. This includes drafting reports, submissions and presentations.
• Lead on short-term projects to improve counter fraud performance measurement, risk, assurance and the evidence base, learning from others (both in the UK and abroad). You will often be responsible for the development and delivery to an agreed timeline and quality of a project with the support of other team members.
• Support the preparation of high quality, informative updates to PSFA and PAE leadership, the Perm Sec and Ministers setting out progress and identifying areas for increased delivery.
• Contribute to the wider PSFA and/or Cabinet Office as part of a corporate objective.

Technical skills

• Analysis and insight: understand and help teams to apply a range of techniques to analyse data and provide insight, be proactive and present compelling findings that inform wider decisions, apply innovative approaches to resolve problems
• Communicating analysis and insight: turn complex data into compelling, clear and actionable stories, share data communication skills with the team and across government, present analysis and visualisations in clear ways to communicate complex messages, communicate negative and positive information to stakeholders, give tactical and strategic recommendations
• Performance measurement: lead the development of performance measurement frameworks, demonstrate a deep understanding of business goals and can turn these into tangible performance measures
• Quality assurance of data and analysis: set up a system to get data ready for use, specify how data should be cleansed and prepared, bring data together from different sources, communicate the limitations of data
• Technical understanding: show a deep understanding of the technical concepts required for the role and understand how they fit into the wider technical landscape, understand the limitations of digital technology
• Working within constraints: work with and challenge senior stakeholders, prioritise and mitigate constraints and can turn them into an advantage, adapt the approach according to constraints, demonstrate a good knowledge of security and data privacy.

Person specification

Essential criteria

• Strong technical skills (see above ‘technical skills’ section)
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills, able to communicate complex information succinctly
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills and experience; able to command confidence of peers and stakeholders
• Prioritisation, planning and delivery skills in steering multiple pieces of work to a successful conclusion
• Comfortable working at pace and able to set clear plans whilst managing competing priorities

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in a role requiring knowledge of counter fraud, risk management/ audit, economic crime or anti-corruption
• Experience of working across or with different organisations to negotiate the delivery of activities and hold them to account for delivery using performance management information

Additional information:

Cabinet Office policy is that a minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace. For some roles, due to their nature and the business need, this may be up to 100%. Requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving
• Leadership

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Presentation

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £57,204, Cabinet Office contributes £16,571 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• An environment with flexible working options.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and employer contributions of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Ability, Experience and Technical skills.

Application process

After submission of the first stage of your application you will be invited to complete a Civil Service Numerical Test and Civil Service Judgement Test. If you successfully pass the test, you will be invited to complete the final stage of the application.

Please complete the online tests as soon as possible (within 24-48 hours is recommended), the closing date for the tests is 23:55 on 6th August 2026. If you fail to complete the online test before the deadline your application will be withdrawn. Guidance for the test will be available when you are invited to take the test. The tests are administered online and accessed via the CS Jobs website.

You will be directed to the Talogy - True Talent – Scheduled Maintenance Window Webpage for online tests during an outage.

Our online test supplier will be performing scheduled maintenance between 3 p.m. and Midnight on 2nd August 2026. You will be unable to access tests during this period.

If you are in the middle of a test when the maintenance begins, your progress will be paused. You will be able to resume your test from where you left off via your application centre once the downtime has ended. Please note that you will not be able to launch any new tests while the system is offline.

For the application stage you will be required to complete a CV and a 1000 word personal statement linked to the essential criteria.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Selection process

At the interview stage you will be required to answer behaviour and strength-based questions. You will also be required to deliver a presentation.

1. Making Effective Decisions
2. Communicating and Influencing
3. Changing and Improving
4. Leadership

Expected timeline

Expected sift date – TBD

Expected interview date/s – TBD

Interview location - Your interview will either be conducted face to face or by video. You will be notified of the location if you are selected for interview.

Reasonable Adjustment

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 Cabinetofficerecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk 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 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.

Further Information

A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.

Any move to Cabinet Office 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; for further information visit the Childcare Choices website.

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service/Disclosure Scotland 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 Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email Info@disclosurescotland.co.uk

Please note that this role requires SC clearance, which would normally need 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years. This is not an absolute requirement, but supplementary checks may be needed where individuals have not lived in the UK for that period. This may mean your security clearance (and therefore your appointment) will take longer or, in some cases, not be possible.

For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the Demystifying Vetting website.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.

This role is full time only. Applicants who wish to work an alternative pattern are welcome to apply however your preferred working pattern may not be available and you should discuss this with the vacancy holder before applying.

Feedback

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Ricky Reed-Killick
• Email : ricky.reed-killick1@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : cabinetofficerecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and wish to make a complaint, then in the first instance you should contact Government Recruitment Service by email at : cabinetofficerecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission at info@csc.gov.uk. For further information on the Recruitment Principles and bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission, please visit their website at: https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/.

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