Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG.)

LOCATION: Bristol, Darlington, London, Manchester, Wolverhampton.

NUMBER OF PLACEMENTS: 5

SALARY:  National: £27,116 (pro rata),  London: £30,840 (pro rata)

About the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)

MHCLG aims to help create great places to live and work across the country and to back communities to come together and thrive. Our priorities are:   

• Levelling up all parts of the country to create more opportunities, better jobs and boosting living standards 

• Delivering more, better quality, more affordable, safer and greener homes. 

• Ending rough sleeping and reducing homelessness 

• Introducing the biggest changes in building safety for a generation 

• Supporting the sustainability of the local government sector that delivers priority services and empowers communities 

MHCLG employs over 300 analysts providing high quality analytical advice to Ministers, the Executive Team and policy and corporate colleagues across all aspects of the Department’s business, including levelling up, housing and planning, building safety and climate change, and homelessness and vulnerable groups.  Our analysts are responsible for economic advice, modelling and analysis, statistical analysis, data collection, data analysis and science, research, evaluation and thought leadership across all MHCLG policy areas.

Economic roles 

As a summer student with MHCLG you can expect to work with experienced government analysts on high priority projects.  You will have the opportunity to use your technical skills on the job and will be able to acquire new skills as part of the internship role.  Working in MHCLG will give you the chance to work alongside experienced policy makers and give you a real insight into policy making today. 

You will be responsible for a variety of unique and interesting pieces of analytical work supporting our policies.  These roles vary across different business areas, but frequently involve liaising with other government departments and external stakeholders, working collaboratively across teams within MHCLG to deliver research outputs, and provide analytical solutions for customers. 

The precise nature of the role will be agreed when we have been allocated a successful candidate.   We will agree the precise nature of your work with us nearer the time depending on the skills and interests of candidates but opportunities include: 

• Providing analysis to inform high priority policy issues including

• Levelling Up agenda and local economic growth  

• the housing market, planning policy and key policies such as Right to Buy. 

• building safety interventions and departmental climate change policies. 

• local public service reform, local government funding and sustainability and public sector efficiency; and  homelessness and the high-profile Troubled Families programme.

• Gaining experience of working in an analytical team in government, including working closely with analysts across government.

• Working in a multi-disciplinary environment with analysts of different specialisms to build the evidence base and develop innovative new tools and techniques for analysing data and sharing results.

• Assisting with the production of innovative mapping and data visualisation outputs to support briefing for Ministers and outputs for our stakeholders and partners.

• Feeding new insights and ideas into our shared information blog

For further information please contact Analytical.Recruitment@communities.gov.uk or Steve Smith (Head of Profession for Economists) stephen.smith@communities.gov.uk

Eligibility Requirements:

Candidates will need to hold the right to work in the UK and meet Civil Service Nationality Rules.

For roles in Bristol, Darlington, Manchester and Wolverhampton BPSS clearance is required.

For our London based roles CTC clearance is required – you must have been living in the United Kingdom continuously for the last three years to obtain CTC clearance.