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Duration: 3 years
Starting salary: From £27k (£45k to £55k after successful completion of the scheme and promotion)
Get on the Fast Stream and you’ll be encouraged, enabled and empowered to become a Civil Service leader, tackling the issues that matter to you and UK life. Whatever you want to achieve, whatever your degree subject or background, there’s something here for you.
What could I be involved in as a Government Social Research (GSR) Fast Streamer?
As a GSR Fast Streamer, you’ll work to put people at the heart of government decision-making. You’ll learn how to provide the analytical insight, evidence and evaluation that helps to improve the quality and implementation of government strategy and policy decisions.
Government Social Research (GSR) is the analytical profession generating and providing the social and behavioural research data that enables government to fully understand social issues and challenges. Supporting policy debate and decision-making through a variety of research methods, advice and evidence, GSR colleagues come from a wide range of professional backgrounds and disciplines.
On this scheme, you’ll develop professional and leadership experience across a broad range of responsibilities and tasks. This will include contributing to the reporting of social trends, the development of government policy and evaluation of how policies make a difference to public services. Your work might involve developing surveys, analysing data, producing statistics, reviewing existing research evidence and working with other analysts in government to provide briefings for policy colleagues and ministers.
Growing your knowledge, skills and experience
Making a valuable contribution to GSR work from the start, you’ll develop essential research skills and learn how social research is applied across government as well as how it supports the work of each department you’re based in during your postings.
As well as gaining social research knowledge and experience, you’ll benefit from a specific Learning & Development curriculum designed to develop your leadership skills and wider understanding of the UK Civil Service. In addition to on-the-job learning and coaching, development opportunities include social research-specific technical training, seminars and other courses. These can be tailored from our annual programmes to your specific learning needs.
To apply, you’ll need
- Eligibility to work in the UK.
- A 2:1 or higher (or be expecting to achieve this) in your undergraduate degree, or a 2:2 with a postgraduate degree.
- A qualifying degree subject is one which contains substantial social research methods training (comprising around one third of modules taken in the course) including quantitative research methods and three of the following: systematic/literature reviews; qualitative methods; interpretation of data and presentation of results; study design and hypothesis testing; and application of ethics to research.
We support applicants with health conditions, learning difficulties and disabilities, with their applications and through their Civil Service careers. We operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you have a disability and meet the minimum qualifying criteria for your chosen scheme, you may choose to skip part of the first stage of the assessment process.
More benefits of being on the Fast Stream
Join us and you’ll be a valued member of the wider Civil Service community, where people genuinely matter and where you can confidently bring your true self to work each day. As well as the reward that comes from work with a strong social purpose, you’ll enjoy a variety of benefits. These include membership of the Civil Service Pension scheme, season ticket loan, flexible working arrangements, childcare assistance and more.
