Lead Quantitative Analyst

About the role

The Lead Quantitative Analyst is a newly introduced role at Crest Advisory, created to support the growth of our data analytics services for clients in the justice, policing, and public safety sectors. This position will work closely with the Head of Analytics to build capacity, capability, and resilience within the analytics team, ensuring Crest consistently delivers clear, actionable insights based on quantitative data. As a specialist role, the Lead Quantitative Analyst is focussed on two key areas - a substantial internal focus on strengthening team capabilities and processes, and an external focus on client delivery work that involves presenting findings to clients and addressing their questions to clarify and deepen the impact of our work.

You will take the lead on quantitative elements within client projects, line-manage quantitative analysts, and drive the professional development of the wider team, while also contributing to Crest’s business development initiatives. This role requires in-office presence three days a week, allowing for close collaboration to maintain the high standards that Crest is known for.

Salary: £47,500 - £53,000 p/a

Key responsibilities include:

• Project Leadership: Lead the quantitative aspects of client projects, ensuring statistical rigour and actionable insights. Present findings to clients and provide clear answers to their queries.
• Team Development: Train and mentor analysts in advanced statistical methods, helping the team build confidence and technical skills in quantitative analysis.
• Process Efficiency: Streamline workflows, automate reporting, and create efficient data processes to maximise the team’s productivity.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure all quantitative work meets Crest’s standards for reliability and credibility, providing guidance and oversight on project methodologies.
• Business Development: Shape proposals and write bids, ensuring robust quantitative methods are designed within project budgets and timeframes.

Essential skills:

• Advanced quantitative analysis skills with a deep understanding of statistical modelling. An understanding of criminal justice and public policy data.
• Proficiency in R and experience training team members in statistical techniques.
• Strong communication skills for explaining complex concepts to senior stakeholders in a clear, accessible way.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines, with a talent for supporting and developing junior team members.

Who we are

We’re a purpose-driven team of experts dedicated to improving justice, policing and public safety. We do this through:

• Our in-house think tank which does the hard thinking on crime and justice reform, publishing robust and independent research in timely, accessible reports.
• Our consulting practice which quantifies complex problems, devises strategies and transforms services for clients across policing, the criminal justice system, and local or central government.
• Our inquiries and reviews practice which provides specialist support to public inquiries and independent reviews examining incidents and issues across justice, public safety, health and social care, sport and other sectors.

Our team identifies and helps solve complex problems arising from crime, vulnerability and other social harms. We’re subject matter experts, and many of us have previously worked at the organisations and in the sectors we now serve. We bring expertise, real-world experience and a powerful sense of purpose to our mission - to make communities safer.

Why work for us

• You’ll work in a stimulating environment, across a wide range of projects and policy areas for high profile clients from the public and private sectors, who seek advice from our specialist team
• You’ll be joining a friendly, sociable team of experts in their fields
• We have a diverse and inclusive culture: you’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs
• A competitive salary with a bonus scheme, 25 days annual leave, travelcard loan scheme, cycle to work scheme
• Learning and development opportunities including training courses to build technical and business skills
• Sometimes we like to be social and do things outside of the office - lunch club, rounders, board games, netball… and always on the lookout for new ideas

Benefits

• Hybrid working 
• Core hours
• Enhanced maternity cover
• Enhanced paternity cover
• Breakfast supplies
• Time off between Christmas and New Year separate from annual leave entitlement

How to apply

Please submit a CV and covering letter setting out your suitability for the role to workwithus@crestadvisory.com. Please note applications will be sifted without names. 

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and require any adjustments during the application process, please mention this in your initial email cover letter. We are committed to offering an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job. This initiative is part of our dedication to encouraging positive action and ensuring that disabled people have the opportunity to demonstrate their skills, talent, and abilities at the interview stage.

Please contact oli.hutt@crestadvisory.com for more information.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Crest Advisory is committed to the development of positive policies to promote equal opportunity in employment. Crest therefore encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, trade union membership or non-membership, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, gender identity and expression, marriage/civil partnership, age, record of arrest or conviction, or family responsibility. We particularly invite those individuals with lived experience of crime or the criminal justice system to apply. 

Equal opportunity monitoring

To ensure that our equal opportunity policy is effective, we carry out monitoring of job applicants. Monitoring is recommended by the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Confederation of British Industry. The selection process for our positions focuses only on your ability and potential for the job. Any equal opportunity monitoring information provided will be kept completely separate from your role application and will be used to compile anonymous statistical information only. 

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