Senior Policy Adviser - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Department for Transport

Department for Transport
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4 weeks ago

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- £40,808
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  • Senior Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • DFT
  • Rail Strategy and Services Group (RSS)
  • Rail Strategy & Analysis Directorate
    Type of role:
  • Policy
  • Strategy
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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  • Birmingham, LeedsAbout the job

Job summary:

Would you relish the opportunity to work across teams and collaborate with Senior leaders and rail industry partners?

Do you want to help realise the potential of data to deliver a step-change in the way the industry communicates with its passengers, and to help secure efficiencies in a £20 billion per year industry?

If so, we are looking for a talented Senior Policy Adviser, and we would love to hear from you


Job description:

This is an exciting time to be joining our Rail Data Policy and Projects team.

You will be at the forefront of designing policy and delivering projects that will drive improvements to the use of rail data within the Department and across the rail industry.

Our team play a key role in setting the Department's strategic direction on how rail data is accessed, used and shared in an open and collaborative way.


You will deliver on the Department for Transport's (DfT) objectives to unlock the value of rail data, which has become a key priority for our Ministers and senior leadership team.


The Department is working closely with the rail industry to deliver an ambitious programme that seeks to use data in innovative ways to deliver improvements to rail passengers and open the industry up to innovation.

DfT's leadership and engagement with the industry is key to achieving good outcomes and you will play a key role in delivering a range of projects focussed on improving the value of data.


Responsibilities
As Senior Policy Adviser your key responsibilities will include a blend of policy and project delivery within a technical context, including;

  • Managing innovative grant funded projects, including establish a new central open data publishing platform for the rail industry.
  • Playing a pivotal role in delivering on the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail data commitments you will oversee the development and delivery of an open data programme to ensure data plays a key part in improving services for passengers.
  • Working closely with legal and commercial teams to remove blockers to data sharing across the rail sector.
  • Working closely with the Department's wider transport data community to develop and implement a rail data policy that fits with the broader transport data objectives.
  • Working directly with groups within the rail industry on crosscutting projects for rail data improvements that will include maximising on opportunities to accelerate the use of innovative technologies and analytical methods.

For further information, please see the attached Role Profile

Person specification:


About you


You should have relevant experience of working with data and technology, as well as an awareness of policy and/or strategy development at an organisational level, and a willingness to further develop your skills to lead multiple work streams and deliver successfully in a changing environment.


You will have outstanding stakeholder management and interpersonal skills to build positive relationships with internal teams and senior leaders across the Department and rail industry.

You will be a confident communicator with the credibility to influence and challenge effectively to support policy decision making.


You will be an innovative and strategic thinker and be knowledgeable and competent to work on issues around data, including the commercial context.


Additional Information
You will have the option to be based in our Leeds or Birmingham office attracting the National salary.

If based in Leeds or Birmingham, occasional travel to our London office will be required for key meetings and team events.


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.


Behaviours:

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

  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Changing and Improving
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Delivering at Pace
  • 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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