Skills & Capabilities Analyst


Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Salary:	£35,663 to £35,663 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Leeds
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	21 Sept 2026
Closing date:	5 Oct 2026

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Summary

Can you turn workforce data into meaningful insights that shape future talent and capability strategies?

Have you worked with stakeholders to identify skills gaps, support workforce planning, and drive organisational improvement?

Are you a collaborative and forward-thinking professional who can champion innovation, influence decision-making, and help build a workforce ready for the future?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

The team plays a key role in ensuring the organisation has the skills, capability, and workforce capacity needed to deliver its current and future priorities. Working closely with business areas, HR, Talent, and Learning & Development colleagues, the team uses data-driven insights to identify workforce trends, capability gaps, and emerging skills requirements. Through workforce planning, capability mapping, and stakeholder engagement, the team supports evidence-based decision-making and helps shape talent and development strategies. The team is committed to continuous improvement, collaboration, and innovation, ensuring the organisation is equipped with a skilled, agile, and future-ready workforce that can successfully respond to changing business needs and strategic challenges.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

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This role will work within the Strategic Workforce Planning Team of the People and Places Directorate.

The Skills and Capabilities analyst will provide strategic insight into workforce capability by analysing skills data, mapping organisational needs, and supporting the development of a future-ready workforce.

The role holder will enable evidence-based talent planning, inform learning and development strategies, and support the implementation of a shared skills framework aligned with organisational goals and government-wide initiatives.

They will work with key stakeholders to understand evolving capabilities to inform future requirements.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

1. Analyse workforce skills and capability data to identify strengths, gaps, risks, and future workforce needs.

2. Develop, maintain, and continuously improve the organisation's skills and capability framework.

3. Provide evidence-based insights to support strategic workforce planning, talent management, and succession planning.

4. Work with Talent and Learning & Development teams to inform capability-building and learning interventions.

5. Model future skills requirements, considering organisational change, emerging trends, and strategic priorities.

6. Engage with stakeholders across the business to understand current and future capability requirements.

7. Produce and present clear reports, dashboards, and workforce insights to support decision-making by senior leaders.

8. Monitor external workforce, skills, and government developments and incorporate relevant insights into capability planning.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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