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

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Reference number:


Salary:

- £30,792-
Job grade:
  • Higher Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • Local government and communities
    Type of role:
  • Policy
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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About the job


Benefits:

Things you need to know

Location

  • Darlington, London, WolverhamptonAbout the job

Job summary:

We pride ourselves on being a friendly, supportive and high performing team.

The Local Government Stewardship division plays a key role in ensuring that councils can continue delivering services in a funding and policy environment that is increasingly challenging.

Our risk team has the job of understanding where councils may be falling short in their ability to manage their finances and meet the 'best value' duty on local authorities to deliver efficient, effective, and economical services.

Our work is demanding, complex and politically sensitive both locally and nationally as we work to identify councils at risk of failure.


It is an exciting time to be joining, as we adapt our approach to managing risk in local government both as a response to the changing operating landscape for local government, and in response to ministerial ambition.

We are looking for people that want to make a difference.


Job description:


  • Conducting in depth reviews of priority local authorities; gathering intelligence from a variety of sources to inform risk assessments and to develop and deliver mitigating activity.
  • Producing advice on individual councils for senior colleagues, the Permanent Secretary and Ministers, drawing from a wide range of sources, and carrying out analysis on the evidence to inform proportionate and considered briefing on a council's risk position.
  • Programme managing and quality assuring our risk monitoring system to support the team's risk management work; working seamless across departmental teams in maintaining a robust monitoring system; and supporting stakeholder engagement review work.

Person specification:


Essential criteria
These are demanding roles that require personal resilience and the ability to operate in an uncertain and reactive environment. We are looking for people who are comfortable delivering at pace and who can demonstrate good judgement.


Desirable experience
An understanding of local authority governance, finances and functions would be beneficial.


Behaviours:

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Working Together
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Delivering at Pace

Benefits:


  • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible working options
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Things you need to know


Selection process details:


  • This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
    We are for everyone

We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.
We are for everyone

DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.


Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors.


  • The assessor won't be reading your answers sequentially.
  • Do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.
  • If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on)

At sift, we will be assessing
Behaviour 1 (lead behaviour) - Working together

Behaviour - communicating and influencing

Behaviour - Delivering at pace

There is a 250 word limit per question.


The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of the following success profiles elements:

Behaviour - Working together, Communicating and influencing, Delivering at pace


In the full campaign we will test the below Success Profile Elements:


Behaviours:
Working together, Communicating and influencing, Delivering at pace


Strengths:
Yes


HEO salary
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The salary for this role is £33,875 (London) or £30,792 (National)
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BENEFITS:


Transfers across the Civil Service on or after 4 October 2018:


GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION:


  • London
  • Wolverhampton
  • Darlington*
    Please note:The Darlington Economic Campus (DEC) is a pioneering new crossgovernment hub which will bring together people across departments and public organisations to play an active role in the most important economic issues of the day. The work of the Campus will make a real difference to people both across the UK and internationally. There will be substantial career opportunities and exciting prospects a career at the Campus means yo
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