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About the job
Are you interested in a role where you have flexibility in your working hours, you get to meet new people from diverse communities and have a positive impact on your local community?
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.
The Operational Delivery Profession (ODP) is the largest profession in the Civil Service. ODP’s 200,000 members work in a wide range of operational delivery roles across government, providing essential services that support and protect UK citizens at home and overseas. They help to make ONS a great place to work.
As a member, ODP supports you by providing learning and development opportunities, career pathways, tools and resources to help develop your skills and progress your career. This is an exciting opportunity to join a modern, innovative and inclusive Civil Service profession that sits at the heart of public service delivery.
This is a great opportunity to join our team as a Field Interviewer working for the Office for National Statistics. As a Field Interviewer carrying out official surveys you will be helping to inform Government about the state of the nation.
This role will be a mix of visiting sampled addresses to encourage them to complete surveys as well as interviewing respondents in their homes.
We have vacancies in the following locations; Blackburn / Burnley, Warrington, Buxton; you must select one location preference. Roles will be offered in merit order, if you are the highest scorer then you will be offered a role in your selected location preference. If you’re not the highest scorer you will be placed onto a reserve list.
This role is not office based. You are required to work within a 40 mile radius (approx) of allocated location.Your work will be allocated to ensure that you can travel and complete your work within your contracted hours in this area. Therefore you need to consider how you will be able to achieve this based on your home location in comparison to your chosen location preference. If you are unable to achieve this your offer will be withdrawn.
This role comes with flexible working hours that we hope will meet your needs as well as ours. You will be employed on a 1144 hours annualised contract which is broadly equivalent to 22 hours work per week.
To ensure that we reach respondents, interviews will need to be conducted between the hours of 09:00 – 20:00 and there is a potential for admin and travel time outside of these hours.
Interviewers will need to work across mornings, afternoons, and evenings and are contracted to work Monday to Saturday, working on Saturdays if required.
What we are we looking for?
We are looking for individuals who have a friendly, outgoing personality and the confidence to approach and converse with a wide selection of people. You will need to have excellent communication skills to be the face of ONS and, where needed, to persuade any reluctant member of the public to take part in our surveys and to be interviewed.
You will also be responsible for planning, organising and managing your own work loads, we will provide full training and support to help you with this.
Including requirements of the role:
Essential Requirements
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Benefits
The Office for National Statistics is part of the Civil Service, and as such we share a number of key benefits with other departments, whilst also having our own unique offerings to support our 5400 valued colleagues across the business.
Whether you are hearing about us for the first time or already know a bit about our organisation, we hope that the benefits pack attached (bottom of page) will give you a great insight into the benefits and facilities available to our colleagues, and our fantastic working culture.
Inclusion & Accessibility
At ONS we are always looking to attract the very best people from the widest possible talent pool, and we are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer. As a Disability Confident Leader we’re committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance.
If you would like an accessible version of any of the attachments or recruitment documents below or linked to in this advert, please contact the recruitment team who will be happy to assist.
Things you need to know
On the Civil Service Success Profiles please see level 1 - AA and AO or equivalent.
Assessment at application stage will be based on your work history, skills and experience and personal statement. Your application should be tailored to demonstrate any skills, knowledge and experience that are relevant to the content of the role.
In your personal statement you are required to answer the question below using up to 250 words.
In cases where there is a high number of applications the sift pass mark may be adjusted and candidates will be invited to interview in merit order, i.e., those scoring the highest.
If your application is successful, you will be invited to attend a video interview lasting between 30 - 45 minutes.
At interview, you will be assessed on your suitability for the role by providing us with evidence in the interview to support what you have included in your application. You should make time to familiarise yourself with the required behaviours before interview and have any questions that you may wish to ask prepared.
As part of the application process you will need to select one location preference. The highest scoring candidate will be offered their location preference. Any further offers will be made in merit order. On some occasions there may be more than one role offered per location.
A reserve list may be held for period of up to 12 months from which further appointments can be made. Candidates should note this is a multi-location campaign and therefore the reserve list is recorded by location in merit order.
Candidates offered a post in any of their preferred locations and who then decline will not be offered any further roles as part of this campaign. Should candidates score the same we will use the lead competency to determine merit order.
If you are applying for more than one currently advertised vacancy as a Field Interviewer, if you are selected to be interviewed, you will only be interviewed for the Field Interviewer role once.
The Sift will be conducted from 11/12/2024
Interviews will be conducted from 06/01/2025
For the full terms and conditions of the post, please see attachment.
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
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