Monitoring and Evaluation lead analyst – Advanced Manufacturing

The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) was established to drive good growth, good jobs and opportunity across the UK. We support businesses to invest, innovate, export and grow, powered by science and technology.

This is a high profile, influential role to lead and deliver monitoring and evaluation of multi-billion-pound programmes in the Advanced Manufacturing sector.

Advanced Manufacturing is central to economic growth and productivity in the UK. It is one of the eight priority sectors in the industrial strategy and is at the heart of BIST’s role as the department for economic growth.

In this policy-facing role, you will lead a team of social researchers and analysts to design and deliver high profile evaluations of Advanced Manufacturing programmes and to conduct and commission research. You will work directly with policy colleagues, as well as with other analysts, academics and industry partners.

The Sectors Analysis team is a busy and lively team of analysts. The team is the analytical foundation behind the UK government’s Advanced Manufacturing policy, providing robust data, analysis and strategic insight to inform government decisions.

Our mission is to ensure that public policy is informed by the best evidence and evaluation and analytical tools available and that public investment decisions deliver the best value for money, fostering genuine economic growth and supporting the UK’s industrial competitiveness. We work closely with policy as an embedded analytical team acting as a critical friend and a source of challenge.

The team’s work includes:

• Work on the Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan that was published in 2025 and included over £4billion of investment into the sector.
• Work on high profile UK investment decisions in the manufacturing sector
• Value for money assessments of grant applications and sector support programmes and work to continually improve assessment techniques.
• Monitoring of the Advanced Manufacturing sector and of the impact of our programmes
• Multiple evaluations of large funds to support the sector.
• The team are at the forefront of thinking about what current economic shocks and geo-political factors mean for our major companies and sectors.

This grade 7 post will be in the Advanced Manufacturing and Evaluation team; a multi-disciplinary and supportive team of analysts. The team provides evidence and analysis (economic appraisal, strategic analysis, evaluation, modelling, statistics and briefing) on the Advanced Manufacturing sector. The post holder will work directly with the Advanced Manufacturing policy teams.

• Lead the development and management of the programme of high-quality monitoring and evaluation (m&e) to build the Advanced Manufacturing evidence base, including the procurement and delivery of evaluations of Advanced Manufacturing programmes.
• Lead the procurement and contract management of external process and impact evaluations.
• Provide quality assurance of M&E projects to ensure they deliver robust, impactful findings and achieve value for money.
• Lead the promotion and dissemination of evaluation findings outside the immediate team to ensure learning feeds into ongoing and new policy development, and products have maximum impact.
• Manage a team of social researcher and other analysts. Support their professional development and wellbeing.
• Provide analytical and social research support across the Advanced Manufacturing analysis team delivering insights and analysis on policy questions such as battery policy development, or the Advanced Manufacturing Sector plan.
• Build relationships with advanced manufacturing policy colleagues to understand analytical and social research needs.
• Develop and support a culture of research and monitoring and evaluation in directorate and wider department, including offering advice on monitoring and evaluation to other teams across the Group.
• We work flexibly across the team and wider department to respond to changing priorities. The role may involve supporting work in the wider team. There are also opportunities to vary the responsibilities to support your development.
• We will support you to developed professional expertise in monitoring and evaluation and sector knowledge.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Interviews for this vacancy will be conducted virtually. We will, however, consider in-person interviews by exception.

Please ensure that you check your emails regularly as all updates from us will be sent to you this way.

To apply for this post, you will be asked to complete the following as part of the online application:

• A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Provide employment history that relates to the essential criteria, and that any gaps in employment history within the last 2 years are explained. The CV should not exceed more than 2 x A4 pages.
• A Personal Statement of up to 750 words, explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role in reference to the essential criteria.

Your application will be sifted against the Experience criteria of the Civil Service Success Profiles.

It is likely that the sift will take place 1-2 weeks after the closing date and interviews 3-5 weeks after the closing date, though this is subject to change.

In the event of a large number of applicants, an initial short sift will be conducted on the CV. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to assessment/interview. As part of your interview, you will be asked to deliver a short oral presentation, details will be provided prior to your interview.

Candidates who pass the sift will be invited to interview, where we will assess you on the Success Profiles elements of Behaviours and Technical skills.

Please note, following a recent change to the Machinery of Government, the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) will be renamed to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) as of 20th July 2026. BIST will connect the UK’s world-class science and technology base directly to the businesses, places and workers that will drive good growth across the country. Such changes will not affect the selection process for this campaign; however, we wanted to take this opportunity to advise you of the recent changes to our department.

You can find further information here regarding recent governmental changes Machinery of Government changes: Fact Sheet - GOV.UK.

Reasonable Adjustments

We are committed to supporting candidates so they can perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. This includes making reasonable adjustments to our process. In order to request an adjustment:

Complete the ‘Assistance required’ section on the ‘Additional requirements’ page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process.

Alternatively contact the Government Recruitment Service at DBTrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

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Please see attached Candidate Pack for further information on: Diversity and Inclusion; Benefits; Learning and Development; Working Patterns and what we deliver as a department.

Further Information:

• A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made. Reserve Lists will be for each location and appointments made in merit order based on location preferences.
• Any move to the Department for Business and Trade from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments.
• The Department will not consider sponsoring a visa or issuing a Certificate of Sponsorship. We are unable to offer advice on any Visa and Immigration cases.
• New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
• Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty. Any applicant who has details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
• A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
• Terms and Conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.
• Please note – the successful candidate will be expected to remain in post for a minimum of 18 months before being released for another role.
• Candidates that do not quite meet the standard for this role may be offered a position at a lower grade.

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Vetting

The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected.

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