Location: Westminster – London/Home

Closing Date: 24/10/2025

Salary: £46,089 per annum (including London Weighting)

Employment Type: Fixed-term (until 31 March 2026), full-time  

Department: Strategy & Policy, LGA and Partners in Care and Health

Hours per week: 35

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About us

The Local Government Association (LGA) is the national voice of local government. We work with councils to support, promote and improve local government.

The Local Government Association (LGA) and Association of Directors of Adult Social Services are Partners in Care and Health (PCH) working with well-respected organisations. PCH helps councils to improve the way they deliver adult social care and public health services and helps Government understand the challenges faced by the sector.

We are a politically-led, cross-party organisation which works on behalf of councils to ensure local government has a strong, credible voice with national government. We aim to influence and set the political agenda on the issues that matter to councils, so they are able to deliver local solutions to national problems; as well as support local authorities with their own self-improvement.

The Local Government Association (LGA) is undergoing an ambitious transformation programme to ensure we remain a strong, effective and sustainable voice for local government. This is an exciting time to work for us.

About the role

We are recruiting to two roles – one in the core LGA Research and Information Team working across local government services, and one in the Partners in Care and Health (PCH) programme with a specific focus on adult social care.

We are looking for team players with data analysis skills who can write and communicate well, have good organisational abilities, and who can design and deliver surveys and conduct data analysis and to draw out and communicate key insights. You will have exceptional data visualisation skills, attention to detail and experience of using analysis software such as Excel to create engaging data visualisations to answer specific questions.

The successful candidates can expect to take on a varied portfolio of work that supports and promotes local authorities.

About you

The successful candidates in both roles will design and deliver surveys and conduct data analysis; commission research; provide data and analytic services for the LGA; and plan and manage the delivery of workstreams or portfolios of research and data work. The two posts are in either:

Research and Information Team

The Research and Data Analyst in this team will deliver evidence for the LGA’s policy development and lobbying work, evaluate and provide information for sector support and deliver our LG Inform data service to authorities. The team’s work is varied, widely used within the organisation and often features in the media.

PCH Team

We are looking for someone with experience and knowledge of adult social care and a keen interest in helping to shape and support a programme of work for effective use of data and intelligence across Partners in Care and Health’s offer of sector-led improvement for adult social care and public health. You will help to develop new reports, tools and visual representations of data, and intelligence for adult social care and carry out day-to-day ad-hoc requests to meet reporting and other data requirements.

You will be responsible for developing and managing our insight and impact evaluation surveys, ensuring that robust data quality arrangements are in place for any surveys, collections and resulting analysis and outputs.

For either post, it’s essential that you have both research (particularly survey) skills and data analysis skills and can write and communicate well. We are looking for team players with good organisational abilities, and ideally experience of commissioning research and managing staff and/or contractors to deliver projects successfully.

The successful candidate can expect to take on a range of work that supports and promotes local authorities and helps them to improve.

Job descriptions for both posts are below. To find out more information about what it’s like to work at the LGA, please visit 'Benefits and working for the LGA'; and for information on equality and diversity at the LGA, please visit 'Equality and diversity at the LGA'.

You must have the right to work in the UK, the LGA are unfortunately unable to offer sponsorship visas. Evidence for the right to work in the UK will be requested at the interview stage. 

To apply

If you would like to be considered for either or both of these roles, please provide a statement detailing why you are interested, and the demonstrable skills and competencies you would bring to the role against the following headings:

1. Survey research skills

2. Data analysis skills

3. Writing and communication skills

4. Delivering projects through others (staff or contractors)

5. Other relevant skills/experience

If you are applying for the role in PCH, we would also like to know about your knowledge and experience of working with data and intelligence for adult social care.

This statement should be no more than two sides of A4.You may upload your CV in support, but please remove your name from the CV, since the LGA undertakes ‘blind’ shortlisting.

Please note whether you are interested in the Research and Information Team post, the CDT Programme post or both.

To help us anonymise applications efficiently, please ensure your CV meets the following formatting requirements:

• Please use standard fonts such as Arial, Times New Roman, or Calibri

• Avoid complex graphics, logos, or images where possible

• Keep formatting simple – use basic bullet points and standard paragraph formatting

• Save your CV as a standard PDF file

• Ensure the file size is under 5MB

• Avoid unusual page layouts or multi-column designs

• Use standard text colours (e.g., black, or dark grey)

CVs that do not meet these guidelines may not be processed correctly by our system.

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Research & Data Analyst - PCH - Job Description

Research & Data Analyst - Research and Information- Job Description

Closing Date: 5pm, 27 October 2025 

Assessment Date : 3 November 2025

Interview Date:  7 November 2025

We use anonymous recruitment, which is the practice of hiding candidates’ identities. This process involves removing any identifying information from candidates’ applications which includes names.

At the LGA we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. Our recruitment decisions are based on fair, open competition, with appointment on merit.  

The LGA are proud to be awarded a “Disability Confident Leader”.  Please contact us via Recruitment@local.gov.uk if you require a reasonable adjustment, which is a change to the format or conditions of the recruitment process to accommodate any disability-related needs you may have.

Our benefits

• LGA annual leave entitlement is 29 days, rising to 31 days after three years’ service and to 33 days after five years’ service, plus all UK public holidays (pro rata for fixed term and part time contracts).*

• Flexible & agile working – office-based staff are required to work in the LGA’s London office two days per week as a minimum, subject to business need and this may vary significantly between different roles and from week to week.

• Future development – face-to-face and virtual courses are scheduled in line with developmental goals

• The LGA offers 24/7 access to a free, confidential employee assistance programme managed by Health Assured. This service is also available for Dependants.

• Family friendly policies

For more of LGA’s benefits and working with us, please view our webpage https://www.local.gov.uk/benefits-and-working-lga

Our values & behaviours

Our Values and Behaviours are there to give us an understanding of who we are as an organisation and who we want to be. They are a framework to help us understand:

• how we work with each other

• how we work with our members and stakeholders

• our expectations for ourselves and each other

Our values are:

Collaboration – We value collaboration, to pursue shared goals by encouraging and utilising diverse perspectives and working with internal and external colleagues across the organisation.

Inclusion – We value inclusion, where everyone feels valued, understood, and supported to contribute meaningfully.

Ambition – We value ambition, reflecting our desire to achieve best possible outcomes for local government, communities, and individuals.

Respect – We value respect, to ensure fairness, recognition, and shared accountability.