Policy Advisors - Manchester, United Kingdom - Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Manchester, United Kingdom

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Salary:

- £31,884 - £36,024
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Higher Executive Officer


  • Senior Executive Officer

  • Band B
    Contract type:
  • Fixed Term
  • Loan
  • Secondment
    Length of employment:
  • 2 Years
    Business area:
  • DCMS
  • Arts, Heritage and Tourism
    Type of role:
  • Policy
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share
    Number of jobs available:
  • 3Contents
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  • Darlington, ManchesterAbout the job

Job summary:

The DCMS International Hub is a new team, established following a recent Departmental restructure.

The Hub will work with colleagues throughout DCMS and across government to represent DCMS's global interests, and those of our sectors.

In the first instance, it will be based in DCMS's Arts, Heritage and Tourism directorate.

The team's responsibilities will include:

coordinating DCMS's international and cross-government engagement; delivering programmes of international Ministerial Visits; driving forward DCMS's interests in trade and export policy; developing DCMS's approach to international boycotts, divestment and sanctions policy; and developing a new international strategy for DCMS.


This is an exciting opportunity to support the establishment of a brand new team, and contribute to developing an excellent working culture.

The Hub will play a pivotal strategic role in DCMS's development, and as such we anticipate that these roles will be challenging and rewarding, with a chance to work closely with senior officials and ministers to help shape the strategic direction of DCMS's international goals.


Job description:

We have 3 roles available in Manchester/Darlington at Band B, working across the team


These are:

International Strategy and Engagement Advisor

  • The postholder will be responsible for coordinating DCMS's input into crossgovernment international groups/meetings, including producing high quality briefings for senior officials and ministers, maintaining effective working relationships with counterparts at all levels of government and ensuring that DCMS delivers against commitments made at these engagements.
  • This role will also include supporting the team lead for Strategy to coordinate DCMS's input into crossgovernment international strategies and country plans.
  • The postholder must hold, or be willing to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.

International Strategy Advisor

  • The postholder will be responsible for supporting the development and monitoring of DCMS's international strategy, working with colleagues across the Department, as well as with Senior Officials and Ministers.
  • This role will also include supporting coordination of DCMS's input into crossgovernment international strategies and country plans. The postholder will also act as surge resource for any emerging urgent International issues.
  • The postholder must hold, or be willing to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.

International Visits Manager

  • The postholder will be responsible for coordination of Ministerial visits overseas. This will include coordinating logistics with Private Offices and Posts worldwide, pulling together briefings with input from teams across DCMS and supporting on the development of the overarching strategy, processes and forward look for DCMS Ministerial visits.
  • This role will work closely with Private Office and the (domestic) Ministerial Visits team.
  • The postholder must hold, or be willing to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.

Person specification:


Essential Requirements:

  • Ability to work at pace in a changing environment.
  • Ability to develop and maintain expertise in their brief, and to provide high quality advice to senior civil servants and Government ministers as needed.
  • Ability to work with other Government departments and wider stakeholders
  • Ability to proactively solve problems, using a wide range of skills and approaches, to defend our sectors interests and reach workable solutions
  • Ability to prioritise between multiple workstreams and drive towards long term goals, whilst achieving short term ambitions
  • Ability to build effective working relationships with colleagues in other teams, to achieve results that work for everyone.

Desirable Skills:

  • Experience working as part of teams to deliver policy successes
  • Experience of writing formal briefing papers or equivalent
  • Developing and maintaining project management products and approaches for a wider team
  • Experience organising internationalfacing events for visiting Ministers and officials or equivalent
  • Evidence of an interest in international affairs and continued professional development to develop understanding of this area
  • Experience in international policy e.g. working with multilateral organisations is not essential but highly desirable
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