Senior Delivery Advisor - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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- £49,403 - £61,392
  • National: £49,403 £55,823 London: £54,328 £61,392. For details of our pay on appointment policy, please see below under the heading 'Salary'

Job grade:


  • Grade 7
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • DEFRA
  • S&C
  • Portfolio
    Type of role:
  • Analytical
  • Economist
  • Geography
  • Operational Research
  • Policy
  • Social Research
  • Statistics
  • Other
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime, Compressed Hours
    Number of jobs available:
  • 3Contents
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  • Bristol, London, NewcastleuponTyne, YorkAbout the job

Job summary:


The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the UK government department responsible for safeguarding our natural environment, supporting our world-leading food and farming industry, and sustaining a thriving rural economy.

Our broad remit means we play a major role in people's day-to-day life, from the food we eat, and the air we breathe, to the water we drink.


  • Portfolio Directorate_
The Portfolio Directorate deals with a vast range of issues that profoundly impact people's lives.

We work with senior leaders and the most important delivery programmes in the organisation, You will have the opportunity to contribute towards and influence the development of new approaches and policies on a wide range of issues affecting millions of people in the UK.

You will play an active role in shaping and delivering the Defra group's priorities, working creatively and collaboratively with others.

These roles will provide significant opportunities to develop your own skills and future career.

  • Encouraging diverse applicants_

Job description:


What will I be doing?
You will be part of the Delivery and Analysis Team within Defra's Portfolio Directorate.

We function as an in-house consultancy team, with a mixture of high calibre strategy / policy advisors, data analysts and delivery experts.

Our roles often involve working with Defra's senior leaders or major programmes to help better understand delivery challenges or provide pragmatic solutions to challenging delivery problems.

Our input is critical in delivering Defra's challenging and important agenda and in enabling Defra's top boards and senior leaders to make effective and timely decisions.


This role offers an excellent opportunity for you to work in a high-profile and stretching job at the heart of Defra where we work across organisational boundaries to drive better delivery.

You will have regular exposure to senior leaders across Defra. You will deliver high-quality and fast-paced insights and problem-solving required to help address the department's most significant delivery challenges.

Defra has an ambitious agenda, requiring a radical shift in the way the department establishes and manages its delivery priorities.

We have a highly complex portfolio of work that requires the highest quality advice.

The department is also committed to radically enhancing the way data is used to influence key delivery decisions - an ambition where this team plays a central role.


As a senior delivery advisor you will engage with programmes and policy teams across Defra to identify delivery challenges and scope out useful interventions.

You will work alongside our Secretary of State's Delivery Unit to drive forward progress against SoS key delivery priorities.

Some of the activities that this role will deliver include:


  • Engage with programme stakeholders to understand context and key issues, and to codevelop solutions to delivery challenges
  • Design a structured approach to addressing these challenges that engages relevant stakeholders and leverages analysis, standards and best practice
  • Create compelling written products and presentations to deliver the insights required by senior stakeholders
  • Provide highquality briefings and communication in person to senior stakeholders
  • Review and evaluate your and the team's work and proactively develop improved methodologies and ways of working
  • Play an active leadership role in the Delivery and Analysis Team, including helping with wider teambuilding activities
  • Understand complex data, models and analytical products to build robust evidence for decisionmaking
This list isn't exhaustive but provides an overview of the activities the role will carry out.


Person specification:


  • A background in problemsolving, perhaps in a consultancy, a central government strategy team or delivery unit, in a highperforming policy team, or a crosscutting team in a government department
  • An unwavering commitment to high standards, outstanding relationship and client management, and clear, incisive thinking to bring to bear on a range of public policy projects
  • Experience delivering highquality, datadriven insights for senior colleagues and/or clients and
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