Policy Lead, Labour Markets Policy and Analysis

About this Role

One-year fixed-term, five days (35 hours) a week. Happy to talk about flexible working.

Location- Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS. TUC’s flexible work policy applies, which allows working from home up to five days per fortnight (pro-rata).

The TUC is looking for a Policy Lead to contribute to our policy development and data analysis across areas including employment rights, labour market and pensions policy

This position has been created to boost the TUC’s policy capacity at a time of significant shifts in the UK labour market. The role will support our response to various new legislation and a rapidly changing economy.

It will suit someone who has highly developed data analysis skills, who is comfortable applying this experience to policy areas including labour markets and pensions.

What key experience, skills, knowledge and understanding do you need?

You will need:

• Experience in analysis of primary and secondary data related to labour market trends and living standards

• Experience initiating and carrying through quantitative research projects

• Confident skills in evaluating and communicating a range of data sources from legal material to quantitative data, and using evidence to inform policy development

If this is you, then take a look at our job description and person specification.

Further information

We welcome applications from any candidate but are particularly keen to receive applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, who are underrepresented at this grade in the TUC. If this is you and you’re interested in the post, we invite you to join an online lunchtime briefing at 12:00 on Tuesday 23 September 2025, about the post, to hear about the TUC and ask questions of the recruiting manager. If you’d like to attend the briefing, please email [email protected] by 12:00 on Friday 19 September 2025. You don’t need to attend the briefing session to apply.

The closing date for completed applications for this post is 17:00 Friday 26 September 2025. We expect interviews will be held on Tuesday 14 October 2025.

The TUC operates an anonymised recruitment process, and names are not included during shortlisting. We don’t ask for details of educational institutions attended.

TUC staff enjoy a good benefits package, including a final salary pension scheme and other benefits. Please read our staff benefits document for additional information.