Programme Officer and Secretariat - London, United Kingdom - Department for Transport

Department for Transport

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £32,603

National: £32,60
London: £36,466.

Job grade:

Higher Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
DFT
Aviation, Maritime and Security Group (AMS)
Maritime
Type of role:
Environment and Sustainability
Project Delivery
Risk Management
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
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Location

Birmingham, Leeds, LondonAbout the job

Job summary:

Have you got excellent attention to detail?

Can you extract information from a range of data and present your findings clearly and with confidence?

Do you work well as part of a team offering support to a wider team delivering key policy and project outcomes?

If so, we'd love to hear from you

Job description:

The Maritime Environment team undertake the programmes and policy work required for the UK to meet its environmental targets, including net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in domestic maritime.

This role will provide you the opportunity to work on important environmental issues across Government, and with stakeholders from industry, academia and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).

This role will focus on the management of the maritime environment programme to realise greater benefit in the decarbonisation of the sector and help to place the UK at the forefront of maritime innovation.

Your job will be as a Programme Officer and Secretariat within the Programme and Finance team, where you will be key in acting as secretariat for boards, including the Ministerially-chaired Clean Maritime Council; monitoring programme spend; and delivering the programme controls and scrutiny required to ensure the success of decarbonisation in Maritime.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Running the Clean Maritime Council, managing a joint chairing structure with the Minister and a senior industry chair.
Acting as secretariat for senior boards, managing attendees and agendas, engaging professionally with senior internal and external stakeholders.
Coordinating and managing reporting processes and engaging with teams both internal and external to DfT to deliver high quality reporting outcomes.
Monitoring and challenging programme spending and enabling the team to deliver a wellmanaged research and development funding programme.

For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.

Person specification:

About you:

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.
You will have good attention to detail and take pride in producing work to a high standard.
Organisational skills are pivotal to this role and you will have the ability to deliver against multiple objectives, whilst maintaining the highest standards.
You work well with colleagues at all levels, and see the importance of building effective working relationships both within and outside of your immediate team.

Additional Information:

A minimum of 60% 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.

Behaviours:

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

Managing a Quality Service
Delivering at Pace
Working Together
Managing a Quality Service

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.

Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport.

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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.

Within your CV and Personal Statement please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following:

Experience of communicating messages clearly and effectively to internal/external stakeholders at all levels.
Excellent attention to detail, being able to extract information from data/reports and share this with others so it is clear to understand.
Ability to review and sensitively challenge individual positions to produce a better final outcome.

Please fully utilise the 500-word count when completing your personal statement.

The sift is due to take place from Monday 29th April 2024.

Interviews are likely to be held f