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Closing Date:
06/09/2024
Group:
Strategy and Research Group
Management Level:
Associate
Job Type:
Permanent
Job Description:
Please note that this role will close at 00:01 on Friday 6th September, and therefore we advise getting your application in no later than midnight on Thursday 5th September.
How to Apply
Please submit your CV, along with a covering letter of no more than one page in length outlining how you meet the essential criteria listed below. Please note, there is not a separate section to upload your cover letter; you should upload both documents when you are prompted for your CV.
About the Team
Ofcom's mission is to make communications work for everyone. Under the 2023 Online Safety Act, we took on duties as the UK's online safety regulator. We also regulate broadband and mobile services, postal services, TV and radio, and the airwaves over which wireless devices operate.
The Research and Intelligence (R&I) team is responsible for providing a deep understanding of market developments and the outcomes for consumers and citizens in the markets we regulate. We collect the evidence base that underpins Ofcom's decisions and informs Ofcom's policy work. The team includes market researchers, industry analysts, and data specialists. R&I has been growing as we build the evidence base for the Online Safety regime, and we are investing in a variety of data sources and combining methodological approaches to build an effective picture of online harms and online safety.
Our culture is clear - we live by Ofcom's values: Empowerment, Excellence, Collaboration, Agility, and Respect. These define how we work to deliver our purpose, now and in the future. The behaviours which support these values set the path for a fully inclusive and innovative culture at Ofcom and in the R&I team.
Purpose of the Role
We are seeking a market intelligence analyst with a good understanding of how to measure and understand large and complex industries. The successful candidate will need excellent data analysis skills, strong communication skills, and a good understanding of the online industry that can be applied to analysing the online safety landscape.
The work will involve the collection and analysis of data from a range of sources - from online services themselves as well as from third-party datasets - to enhance our understanding of risks and safety practices across platforms. The role's focus is on using large datasets to generate up-to-date insights about key online sectors, including social media, search engines, gaming, adult sites, and more.
Key activities will include identifying relevant datasets to inform our knowledge of the online services sector, updating those datasets when needed, designing indicators of risk based on our data, and generating insights to share with policy colleagues on both a regular and ad hoc basis. The post holder will become a data manager for key datasets and will field relevant requests or queries from Ofcom teams.
The role will involve engagement with partners and stakeholders across the online services industry, third-party data providers, and experts. The postholder will also work very closely with Ofcom teams working on online safety including policy colleagues, lawyers, technologists, and economists.
The job is full-time and based at either Ofcom's Manchester, London, or Edinburgh office (the successful applicant's choice). We recognise that not everyone has the same needs, and we strive to offer flexible working arrangements to help manage work and personal commitments. We have family-friendly policies that actively seek to support our colleagues and enable our teams to work in the most effective way.
As the online safety regime is focused on assessing services' systems and processes, rather than adjudicating on individual pieces of content, we do not anticipate that colleagues working in this role will be routinely exposed to harmful or distressing online content. At the same time, due to the nature of the harms covered by the online safety regime, some exposure to distressing content or themes may be unavoidable from time to time. We will offer support to colleagues to manage any such exposure, but candidates should be aware of this aspect of the role.
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