About The Job
Job summary
The Deputy Director (DD) for AI Analysis will drive DSIT’s critical response to the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI), working with policy colleagues in the AI policy team and the AI Safety Institute to rapidly build evidence-based bases and ensure that policymakers have the best-emerging evidence to make the right policy actions.
The rapid advancements in AI capabilities have the potential to be a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver long-term changes to the UK – in the economy, society and public services. This role will help understand and deliver on that transformation by ensuring that policy in this rapidly evolving market is made on the best possible evidence; and that policy changes are evaluated to provide insights into the future policy landscape.
As the analyst DD, you will be part of the AI Directorate leadership team, ensuring that decision-making by DSIT and other Departments around AI is informed by the best available supporting evidence and analysis. You will steer the development of the evidence base in a way that informs AI strategy and regulation, as well as the development of the institutions and infrastructure that enable the UK to position ourselves to take advantage of technological developments.
You will also oversee the analytical input to the AI Safety Institute, which is the world’s first state-backed organisation focused on advanced AI safety for the public benefit and is working towards this by bringing together world-class experts to understand the risks of advanced AI and enable its governance. AISI’s first milestone is to build an evaluation process for assessing the capabilities of the next generation of advanced AI systems.
Whilst this role works directly with the policy teams, you will work closely with the Director of Analysis, Alison Kilburn; and will manage on supporting her in her role in building the cross-government evidence base for AI.
Finally, AI forms one of the Government’s five critical technologies; and this role will work closely with analysts across DSIT to support, as necessary, the development of the evidence base across the critical technologies.
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Benefits
Alongside your salary of £75,000, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology contributes £21,750 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
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Selection process details
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To apply for this post please follow the instructions on the CS Jobs website by no later than 23:55 1 st April 2024 . As part of the application process, you are asked to complete the following:
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This role has a minimum assignment duration of 18 months. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.
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The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
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