Policy Delivery Lead - 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

2 weeks ago

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- £39,439 - £47,039
  • National: £39,439 £43,569, London: £42,577 £47,039, For details of our pay on appointment policy, please see below under the heading 'Salary'.
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Senior Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • DEFRA
  • FBT
  • Borders & Boundaries
    Type of role:
  • Policy
  • Project Delivery
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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  • Bristol, London, NewcastleuponTyne, YorkAbout the job

Job summary:


Summary

The Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is 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.**Everyone who works with us or in one of our agencies and public bodies has a part to play in achieving our vision of 'creating a great place for people to live'. The work we do impacts the lives of everyone living in the UK.


About the Biosecurity, Borders and Trade Programme


The Biosecurity, Borders and Trade (BBT) programme delivers on Defra's responsibility for setting policies to protect biosecurity, by designing and delivering a regime of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) import controls.

In doing so it contributes to wider Government 2025 UK Border Strategy, supporting the ambition of 'having 'the world's most effective border that creates prosperity and enhances security for a global United Kingdom'.

The purpose of that strategy is to set out:


  • Our approach to working in partnership with the border industry and users of the border to design, deliver and innovate around the border
  • A longterm Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) that describes the border we are intending to create
  • The major transformations that government and industry will need to deliver by 2025 and beyond to implement the Border Target Operating Model

Job description:


Responsibilities

  • Develop a detailed understanding of the plant health regime and potential implications for the plant health exports regime for technology, services, operations, capability, and legislation
  • Develop export strategies and issue resolution with EU trading partners
  • Ownership of the plant health dashboard which brings together quantitative and qualitative data, key trends and findings
  • Ensuring value for money against resource & funding thresholds
  • Continue to develop with stakeholders the short term tactical solution for reporting
  • Develop strategic reporting mechanisms in line with transition to new IT platforms
  • Lead the development of IT services in line with Single Trade Window considering assisted prenotification and electronic certification
  • Drive key decisions affecting the direction and delivery of the work area, assessing risk and advising on mitigation, and effectively influencing stakeholders across government and industry to secure key objectives
  • Develop an understanding of and support potential Future Border technologies and how current border processes and IT will fit into these proposals
  • Drive key decisions affecting the direction and delivery of the work area, assessing risk and advising on mitigation, and effectively influencing stakeholders across government and industry to secure key objectives
  • Support and maintain project governance to an exceptional standard

Person specification:


  • Must have proven experience in SPS policy development, implementation or operational delivery
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills, influencing stakeholders at the highest level whilst adapting your delivery to suit a wide variety of audiences
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and lead teams to respond flexibly to change and competing demands
  • Bring a passion for innovation, showing leadership in delivering new ideas and ways of working
  • Ability to strategically think and plan ahead, ensuring policy and delivery plans are developed to meet changing business needs
  • Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders, sharing information, resources and support

Location

Bristol - London - Newcastle - York

Behaviours:

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

  • Delivering at Pace
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Leadership
  • Working Together

Benefits:


  • Alongside your salary of £39,439, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs contributes £10,687 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides
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