Policy Advisor - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Department for Transport

Department for Transport
Department for Transport
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3 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £32,603
Job grade:


  • Higher Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • DFT
  • Decarbonisation, Technology & Strategy Group (DTS)
  • New Economy and Union
    Type of role:
  • Communications / Marketing
  • Policy
  • Strategy
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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Location

  • EdinburghAbout the job

Job summary:

Are you a confident individual who can build strong working relationships with colleagues and a wide range of stakeholders?

Can you communicate clearly, honestly and persuasively to achieve business outcomes?

Do you want to help drive change and provide support on department-wide Union issues?

If so, we'd love to hear from you


Job description:

Strengthening and levelling up the Union is a priority for the Government.

The Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Team is committed to ensuring the Department delivers for people throughout the United Kingdom; by helping to drive change and through providing support and advice on department-wide Union issues.


The team manages the department's relationship with the Scottish and Welsh Governments and the Northern Ireland Executive and provides advice and strategic direction to the rest of the department on national devolution matters.

The devolved administrations are now mature legislatures and are responsible for a wide range of transport powers, so the team has the challenging role of ensuring that the UK Government delivers for the people of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland while respecting the devolution settlements.


To help meet these challenges, the division is also responsible for improving capability and knowledge within the department and ensuring processes and policy development takes account of the social and political drivers which help strengthen the Union.


Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Supporting a team of area leads and policy professionals, based across Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England, to gather intelligence and better understand how best to work collaboratively with the respective devolved administrations.
  • Assisting in the identification and maintenance of an extensive and useful network across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, including with the devolved administrations, local authorities and a range of other stakeholders.
  • Supporting the building and maintaining of good networks with devolution policy teams in DLUHC, HMT, Cabinet Office, Territorial Offices and Departmental modal leads.
  • Gathering data and information which can be analysed for key trends, insights, and issues.
  • Providing day to day support to the team by identifying, collecting and collating relevant news stories.
For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.


Person specification:


About you:


Excellent organisational skills are required and you will be able to manage and filter workflow as well as organise and prioritise your work to maximise productivity and achieve all deadlines.

You will be highly adaptable and flexible, adjusting to the requirements of the role.


We are looking for someone who has exceptional communication skills and can express themselves in a confident and concise manner with colleagues at all levels.

You will represent the department both professionally and clearly, ensuring key messages are delivered to both internal and external stakeholders in a timely fashion.


Additional Information:


A minimum of 40% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.


You will have the opportunity to travel to stakeholder meetings and team away days where an overnight stay may be necessary.

These visits are encouraged but not a requirement of the role.


Behaviours:

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

  • Changing and Improving
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together

Benefits:


  • Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.
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Selection process details:


  • This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
  • Experience of undertaking departmental briefing, correspondence and other written communication.
  • Stakeholder engagement and building positive relationships across diverse range of groups both internal and external, including senior leaders.
  • Working collaboratively to suppor
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