AI Impact and Evaluation Lead

locations

Bristol, Glasgow, London, Manchester, York

salary

£53,400 - £66,875

National £53,400 - £58,850. London £58,800 - £66,875 - Offers above the band minimum are subject to our assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview. Salaries over the band minimum will be paid as a non-pensionable allowance.

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

About the team

The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI) - is an AI for public good programme to harness the opportunities presented by AI to improve the lives of citizens. It focuses on a number of priority projects in home affairs, health, education and government efficiency projects. The i.AI team uses ethical and secure methods at all times to help deliver better public services.

Building on the work of No10 Data Science Team (10DS) and other leading technology teams across the civil service, i.AI will experiment and prove what is possible in improving the use of AI across the government. It was recently announced that i.AI will expand a further 40 roles to build a scale up function, which will take successful incubated projects into production.

You can see more about our work on ai.gov.uk

i.AI’s Impact and Evaluation team will build their work into each stage of product development, from scoping, to incubation, and onwards to scaling. Team members will embed into product development teams, designing and delivering of randomised control trials, impact evaluations, and qualitative studies primarily into the efficiency and quality impacts of our AI products.

Job description

Role Responsibilities

• Embedding impact and evaluation into products from the very start and throughout the development cycle
• We will teach you to apply your skills to deliver wider AI evaluation throughout the development cycle. These are new and emerging methods that you would be key in forging practical delivery of: safety assessment, algorithmic transparency reporting, red teaming to assess AI bias and safety
• Building evidence-led and data-driven cases for i.AI funding bids in processes such as Budgets or Spending Reviews
• Conducting data analysis, drawing insights and recommendations and presenting them stakeholders

Person specification

• Experience of designing, leading and delivering research, from a relevant discipline such as an economist, behavioural scientist, or a social scientist
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to synthesise complex information and draw insights from data
• Ability to engage and influence others at various levels of seniority to maximise the impact of research studies
• Knowledge of either quantitative and/or qualitative research design, methods and analysis
• Ability to work collaboratively and across disciplines, and maintain strong working relationships with a broad range of individuals
• Ability to communicate research for varied audiences, using different media/formats e.g. technical reports; presentations; web-based tools
• Non-essential but beneficial: experience of leading on cost-benefit analysis and policy appraisal in line with the Green Book

Technical Skills:

• Needs to be/become DDAT/badged Economist/Social Researcher/Statistician/Operational Researcher
• In-depth expertise of a number of commonly used evaluation methods
• Experimental and quasi-experimental methods are particularly desirable
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to communicate technical information on evaluations to non-specialists in ways that are easily understood
• Strong ability to articulate the value of evaluating products to a broad range of stakeholders
• Coding ability in python or similar languages are not essential but would be beneficial

We welcome a broad range of applicants and encourage you to apply. Strong candidates come from many different backgrounds. Studies show that talented people, especially those from groups underrepresented in their field, are more likely to doubt themselves and feel like an "imposter". Unique perspectives enrich teams, so we urge you to have confidence in your potential contributions. If aspects of this role resonate with you, please apply. We look forward to your application highlighting your skills and experiences.

Additional information:

A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace. Although 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:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions

Technical skills

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

• Technical assessment at interview will be based on the listed essential criteria and will be confirmed to successful candidates at shortlisting stage.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £53,400, Cabinet Office contributes £14,418 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• 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 average employer contributions of 27%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.