Senior Policy Adviser - London, United Kingdom - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

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3 weeks ago

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- £54,632-
Job grade:

Grade 7
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
Resilience and Recovery
Type of role:
Policy
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
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Job summary:

Outside of crisis response, the team plays a key role in short to medium term horizon scanning for threats and hazards and risk assessments, keeping the Department's senior team informed on emerging 'rising tide' emergencies and events that may require a significant and wide-ranging response from the Department.

The team also plays a vital role in preparing the Department for different types of crises, including through exercising.

Job description:

The Central Response Coordination Unit has been created in light of the critical lessons the department has learned from responding to significant incidents.

The new Central Response and Coordination Unit will complement, and work alongside, other existing resilience functions within DLUHC, and its main purpose will be to take a strategic, birds-eye view during a crisis and run, grip and coordinate a Department-wide response, acting as the interface with Ministers and the Executive Team and helping orchestrate the Department's engagement in cross-Government structures and responses.

During 'peacetime', when not acting in response, this team will play a key role in horizon scanning and risk assessment, keeping the Executive Team and Ministers informed on emerging rising tide incidents and events that may require a significant and wide-ranging response from the Department, especially where DLUHC is the Lead Government Department for a particular type of threat or where its assets and relationships can play a material role.

There are two Grade 7 positions available within the unit.

These roles each require a strong leader who will play a vital part in both crisis response and in supporting CRCU to action it's longer-term peace-time priorities as set out above.

In crisis mode, post holders will provide leadership for CRCU in coordinating a cross departmental response. Tasks will include leading teams to deliver across the operational, situational and policy remit held by CRCU in a response.
The role holders will each provide strong leadership on specific areas of response ensuring the smooth functioning and effective delivery of a strong CRCU led crisis response. This will include ensuring strong situational awareness, effecting strategic decision making across the Department and ensuring that commissioning of core work is carried out effectively and to suitable timescales, drafting high quality briefing products for the Ministers and seniors and quality assuring briefing products produced by the wider team. You will also be expected to provide strong verbal briefings for Ministers and senior officials.
In peacetime you will lead the secretariat of the Resilience Board, ensuring that the board has an effective focus and working closely with policy leads across the Department to deliver agenda items.
You will lead on the development of key preparedness work for our top priority risks, working closely with a range of teams across the department and you will ensure our Executive Team and Ministers are fully sighted through effective briefing.
You will provide strong line management and development support for SEOs in the team who will support across the functions outlined above.
You will play an integral role in developing CRCU as a team, including establishing a strong network for CRCU to draw on in the event of a large scale crisis.
You will maintain close links with Cabinet Office, and other key Departments and agencies (e.g. Home Office, DHSC, DEFRA, UKHSA) to support effective future crossGovernment responses.

Person specification:

This role would suit a robust, confident leader with strong ministerial engagement and organisational grip skills. To be successful, you will need to be resilient with strong leadership skills. You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to think strategically.

You will need to demonstrate your ability to build strong working relationships at all levels across the Department, to co-ordinate delivery across multiple teams and policy areas, and be comfortable working at pace.

You will need to be at ease with analysing data and gripping the key elements of policy development to make clear recommendations to senior leaders and ministers.

The role requires some flexibility around working hours to ensure preparation for key meetings.

Due to the close engagement that will be required with Ministers and the Executive Team, and the potential need to physically attend certain meetings in Whitehall, this is a London based role that will require a level of office work