Role overview
- Support and shape a new policy and regulatory function within the GLA
- Drive innovation in how licensing supports London’s economic and cultural vibrancy
- Work with senior stakeholders across government, industry, and the city
- Make a visible impact on how London works, plays, and grows
- Using data science techniques to generate insights that support the design and delivery of London’s new Strategic Licensing powers
- Working closely with policy leads, analysts and external partners to translate complex questions into clear, actionable data projects
- Analysing large, complex and multi-source datasets (including time-series data) to understand trends in London’s licensing, cultural and night-time economy
- Developing and maintaining reproducible data pipelines, ensuring high-quality, regularly updated analysis that informs decision-making
- Applying statistical modelling and machine learning techniques to evaluate the impact of the Strategic Licensing pilot
- Exploring and experimenting with new datasets, tools and methods to improve how licensing data is used across the GLA
- Creating compelling data visualisations and communicating findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Collaborating with London boroughs, consultants and industry stakeholders to innovate in the use of data across the licensing system
- Contributing to London’s open data community by publishing datasets, sharing insights and promoting best practice
- Supporting and mentoring colleagues by sharing knowledge on coding, data science tools and analytical techniques
- Participating in cross-functional project teams, helping to shape a high-profile, city-wide policy programme
- Ability to understand business and policy problems and to address them using data characterised by high-volume, high dimensionality and from multiple sources – particularly time-series data.
- Experience using predictive, statistical, or other mathematical techniques including supervised and unsupervised machine learning (including the ability to determine the best technique to solve a particular problem).
- An excellent grasp of standard statistical techniques for data analysis and exploration, such as regression and cluster analysis, and as well as experience using these techniques to solve real-world problems in a work environment.
- Strong proficiency in applying statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms using a variety of software/codebases e.g. R, GIS, Python to build reproducible processes.
- Ability to identify and effectively communicate data stories using data visualisation techniques and software, and quickly research and learn new programming/modelling tools and techniques
- A postgraduate degree in a quantitative field strongly related to data science, i.e. one that involves applied mathematics/statistics and coding or equivalent professional experience.
- Listens to understand requirements without making assumptions
- Demonstrates an enthusiastic and ‘can do attitude’ to all requests
- Provides timely, accurate and personalised responses
- Provides a polite and helpful first point of contact for stakeholders
- Learns from feedback to improve personal service to others
- Prioritises work in line with key team or project deliverables
- Makes contingency plans to account for changing work priorities, deadlines
- and milestones
- Identifies and consults with sponsors or stakeholders in planning work
- Pays close attention to detail, ensuring team’s work is delivered to a high
- standard
- Negotiates realistic timescales for work delivery, ensuring team deliverables can be met
- Processes and distils a variety of information to understand a problem fully
- Proposes options for solutions to presented problems
- Builds on the ideas of others to encourage creative problem solving
- Thinks laterally about own work, considering different ways to approach problems
- Seeks the opinions and experiences of others to understand different approaches to problem solving
- Proactively seeks new information sources to progress research agendas
- and address gaps in knowledge
- Grasps limitations of or assumptions behind data sources, disregarding
- those that lack quality
- Analyses and integrates qualitative and quantitative data to find new insights
- Translates research outcomes into concise, meaningful reports
- Identifies relevant and practical research questions for the future
- Up to date CV
- Personal statement with a maximum of 1500 words. Please ensure you address how you demonstrate the essential criteria outlined above in the advert.
- If the number of applications received is high, we will review based on Research and Analysis Competency.
Benefits
- On a permanent contract or a fixed term contract where the time left on the contract at the point at which you apply for secondment is longer than the secondment period;
- successfully completed your probation period and are performing to the required standard for your current role; and
- at least 18 months service with the GLA
About the company
London is a city recognised as the global capital for arts and culture. Our theatres, music venues, museums and galleries are renowned across the world. Our creative industries are vital to London’s success and the recording studios, rehearsal spaces, artists' workspaces, grassroots music, and LGBTQ+ venues all contribute to this success.
The Culture, Creative Industries and 24-Hour London portfolio at the Greater London Authority focuses on supporting London’s cultural and creative economy, strengthening cultural infrastructure, and ensuring the city functions as a global, inclusive 24‑hour city. This includes overseeing major projects such as Creative Enterprise Zones, London Borough of Culture, the Fourth Plinth commission, and initiatives that support the night‑time economy. Alongside programme delivery, the team is preparing for devolved powers of licensing to the Mayor — working with boroughs, the police, industry and communities to ensure that licensing and regulatory frameworks support vibrancy, safety and economic growth while balancing local impacts.
The Culture, Creative Industries and 24-Hour London Unit, in partnership with teams across the Greater London Authority (GLA), is leading an exciting new government-backed pilot to establish strategic licensing powers for the Mayor of London. This high-profile initiative is a cornerstone of the Government’s and Mayor’s shared growth agenda—unlocking opportunities for London’s hospitality, cultural and nighttime economies.