This is an exciting, part-time job-share opportunity for between 0.5 and 0.8 FTE, jointly leading the KAI Personal Taxes team. The role involves setting the team’s direction and ensuring it produces high quality analysis and research that meets customer needs. ​

You will provide analytical leadership of the team’s work, ensuring that the right combination of skills and analytical methods are being used, that quality assurance is carried out appropriately, and that there is a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.​​

Alongside the job-share partner, the key responsibilities and accountabilities are: ​

• Providing HM Treasury/ministers, HMRC and the Office for Budget Responsibility with analysis (such as receipts monitoring and forecasting, and analysis of the fiscal impacts of changes to policy) relating to personal taxes including income tax, National Insurance, Capital Gains and Inheritance taxes. ​
• Working closely with the Scottish and Welsh Governments on analysis for devolved income tax issues. ​
• To continue to strengthen the quality of HMRC’s official statistics, building on HMRC’s response to the Office of Statistics Review of this in 2020, for example Reproducible Analytical Pipelines, and reviewing the quality and number of statistical products. 
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with other teams in KAI, Other Government Departments such as HM Treasury and wider organisations (such as but not limited to the Office for Budget Responsibility, Office for National Statistics, Office for Statistics Regulation and the National Audit Office) at both a strategic/planning and working level. ​
• Ensuring analysis relating to Personal Tax is fit for purpose,  for example by ensuring the right combination of skills and analytical methods are being used, and quality assurance applied. ​
• Signing off several statistical releases and estimates used in HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts. This will vary over time. ​
• Contribute to the wider leadership of KAI as a member of the KAI Senior Leadership Team (SLT), including leading on specific cross-KAI initiatives as appropriate. ​
• The exact split of responsibilities will be decided based on the skills and experience of the incumbent and the successful applicant. 

Management of People:​

The post holder will, alongside their job-share partner, line manage 5 colleagues at Grade 6 level, whose work includes;​

1. Data production​
2. Income tax and National Insurance Contribution receipts and modelling​
3. Income tax and National Insurance Contributions research​
4. Inheritance, International and Devolved taxes​
5. Specialist Personal Tax such as Capital Gains Tax, Employee Share Schemes and charities.​

The team in total has around 80 FTE spread across several locations, with most colleagues being based in London (100 Parliament Street) and Manchester. 

Key Performance Indicators​

• Regular monitoring of progress against the team’s key deliverables, including feedback from stakeholders on their accuracy, timeliness, and helpfulness, as well as performance against Parliamentary Questions and Freedom of Information targets. ​
• Effective stakeholder relationships evidenced through feedback.  ​
• Management metrics relating to Personal Taxes, including GDPR compliance, IT issues escalated, expenditure against budget and the number of issues arising in relation to statistics publications.    ​
• Monitoring of staff engagement and well-being, measured through the staff survey and regular temperature checks. ​

The successful applicant will need to demonstrate relevant experience and effective delivery of the following essential criteria.​

Essential Criteria:​

• Analytical experience: ​Knowledge of a wide range of analytical techniques and practical application of these techniques to solve business problems. Additionally;​
• You must be a member of one of the Civil Service analytical professions (Economist, Statistician, Social Researcher, Operational Researcher, or Digital Data and Technology professions) and must state which profession you are aligned to in your application ​

OR; ​​

• have strong, demonstrable and recent experience of working as a leader in analysis and be willing to work towards membership of an analytical profession whilst in post.

• Seeing the bigger picture: The ability to understand and interpret the bigger picture, using this to create a forward-looking vision. The ability to work through a complex nature of analytical work and produce creative and pragmatic solutions that deliver against key objectives. ​
• Leadership: Experience of providing visible leadership to deliver team and organisational wide objectives at times of pressure. Leading analytical teams with a wide range of professional skills, and showing a genuine focus on wellbeing, diversity and inclusion. ​​
• Building and maintaining relationships: Evidence of an ability to build and maintain relationships and collaboration with senior leaders, internal and external stakeholders and colleagues in a large, complex organisation. Able to quickly establish credibility, build trust and with an ability to positively influence at all levels to deliver results.​ Ability to collaborate with others is also important in the context of the role being a job-share opportunity.​
• Communicating and Influencing: Demonstrable experience of being an excellent communicator, actively ensuring a motivated, engaged and high performing team ethos and inclusive working environment, which supports team members of diverse backgrounds.​ An ability to communicate complex and technical matters clearly and concisely to senior leaders, being persuasive in your views but also solution focussed to find a way through that best meets everyone's needs.