Dsit - Head of Vhtr Programme Liaison - London, United Kingdom - Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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3 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £48,014 - £59,371
  • London £52,764 £59,371, National £48,014 £54,027 + benefits
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Grade 7
  • A
    Contract type:
  • Fixed Term
  • Loan
    Length of employment:
  • 2 years
    Business area:
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
    Type of role:
  • Other
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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  • Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, ManchesterAbout the job

Job summary:

The Romans built roads, the Victorians canals and Railways.


Putting in place the right digital infrastructure across the country is an equally big challenge for our time, and a top priority for the Prime Minister.


The Digital Infrastructure directorate leads on making this happen - setting policies to promote investment and protect national security, whilst running innovative pilot programmes for the next generation of technology.

We play a leading role across government, delivering new commercial deals, policy and legislation, and work closely with No.10, Cabinet Office, HM Treasury and key Whitehall delivery departments as well as industry, Ofcom and international partners to achieve our goals


Job description:


There is one role presented in this recruitment campaign, which sits within the Digital Infrastructure Investment team, part of the Broadband Regulation and Investment Team (BRIT).

Role - Head of VHTR Policy Liaison

The Digital Infrastructure Investment team is responsible for new policy initiatives to encourage improvements in broadband services. Some premises are particularly challenging, deemed 'very hard to reach', and may require novel technology and policy solutions.


This role will lead liaison on some of these projects, including our trials of new satellite and hybrid network technologies, subsequent monitoring of our satellite grant programme, and other bespoke policy interventions.

We anticipate that this role will interface with stakeholders benefiting from, and organisations supporting or delivering these trials.

This will also include collaboration with Digital Infrastructure Future Network Programme, DEFRA's Future Farming team, and potentially elements of BDUK.


This role will also line manage one Band B resource, a VHTR Policy Liaison Officer, who will support the analytical, policy and some administrative work relating these exciting initiatives.


Person specification:

Essential Requirements
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Seeing the Big Picture: Understand the strategic drivers for your area of work. Align activities to contribute to wider. organisational priorities. Aware of emerging issues and trends, and able to experiences to develop knowledge of the team's business area.
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Communicating and influencing: Strong communication and collaboration skills and experience, working effectively in complex teams.
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Delivering at pace: Ability to deliver clear and concise policy recommendations to tight deadlines, focusing on what matters most to inform decisions. Ability to use forward planning and judgement to identify and mitigate risks.

Desirable Skills
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Technology skills: A basic understanding of telecoms technologies would be helpful for these roles. Whilst it is not a technical role, the policy issues and the delivery programmes relating to both Project Gigabit and to Very Hard to Reach premises involve leading edge technology.
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Structured, analytical approaches: These roles involve the assimilation of complex data to plan policy interventions, assess delivery and inform stakeholders. Numeracy, accuracy and professional diligence is essential in these roles.


Behaviours:

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

  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together
  • Seeing the Big Picture

Benefits:


  • Alongside your salary of £48,014, Department for Culture, Media and Sport contributes £12,963 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
DCMS values its staff and offers a wide range of benefits to everyone who works here. We're committed to developing talent, and supporting colleagues to have great careers in our department.

To support with that, some of the benefits we offer include:


  • Flexible working arrangements and hybrid working
  • DCMS staff work on a flexible basis with time spent in offices, and time spent working from home.
  • 26.5 days annual leave on entry, increasing to 31.5 days after 5 years' service.
  • A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
  • 3 days of paid volunteering leave.
  • Up to 9 months maternity leave on full pay + generous paternity
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