You can influence a huge range of areas with your thinking when you’re working for the Government Statistical Service (GSS).
The UK’s largest employer of statisticians, with over 1,000 professional statisticians spread across more than 30 government departments and agencies, the GSS collect, analyse and publish official UK statistics on all aspects of national life. The statistics it produces are reported daily and nationally on TV and radio and in the press.
Join the GSS as a Fast Stream Statistician, and you will have the chance to develop your expertise through postings in a range of government departments or agencies, and sometimes even overseas.
In the long term, your progress will depend on your performance, although we would expect you to advance to full Statistician status within three to five years.
What are we looking for?
To apply, you need to hold a numerate degree, at least at 2.1, which has included training in statistical theory and methods. Alternatively, you could have a postgraduate degree containing a large amount of statistics.
We’re looking for people who understand the problems associated with data collection and how quality problems and inherent variability in samples may lead to misinterpretation or misleading results. For more information about the Government Statistical Service, please visit www.statistics.gov.uk/gssjobs
The GSS scheme opened on Monday 19 September 2011 and closed on Monday 17 October 2011. The GSS scheme within the Analytical Fast Stream will be running a second round in 2012 which will open from Monday 5 March 2012 to Tuesday 10 April 2012.