Ukspf Policy Adviser - Leeds, United Kingdom - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

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Leeds, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Salary:

- £30,792- £30,79

Please see Selection Process Details for more information

Job grade:

Higher Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
Regeneration
Type of role:
Policy
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
3Contents

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About the job

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Location

Bristol, Darlington, Leeds, Manchester, WolverhamptonAbout the job

Job summary:

The United Kingdom Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) is a central pillar of the UK Government's ambitious levelling up agenda and a significant component of its support for places across the UK.

You will join a team responsible for delivering £2.6bn of new funding for local investment by March 2025, with all areas of the UK receiving an allocation from the Fund.

This role is pivotal to supporting the delivery of a high-profile government fund.

Opportunities across the team include:

Working in a delivery role, in areas such as performance management, capacity and capability of local authorities and other contracting aspects of funding delivery. This might be analysing data, producing management information and working to support local authorities to ensure their delivery is timely and onbudget.
You will be responsible for managing relationships with other Government Departments in assessment and delivery, as well as engagement with Devolved Administrations. This function will also require coordination of responses to a wide range of briefing and correspondence requests at pace.
You will support the project management office team on a range of risk and reporting commissions. You will develop and manage central PMO documentation for the programme team to ensure milestones and goals are met and the programme is delivered successfully.

Job description:

Opportunities across the team include:

Working in a delivery role, in areas such as performance management, capacity and capability of local authorities and other contracting aspects of funding delivery. This might be analysing data, producing management information and working to support local authorities to ensure their delivery is timely and onbudget.
You will be responsible for managing relationships with other Government Departments in assessment and delivery, as well as engagement with Devolved Administrations. This function will also require coordination of responses to a wide range of briefing and correspondence requests at pace.
You will support the project management office team on a range of risk and reporting commissions. You will develop and manage central PMO documentation for the programme team to ensure milestones and goals are met and the programme is delivered successfully.

Person specification:

We will be looking for evidence that demonstrates a range of skills and experience including:

Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to plan, organise and manage your time effectively.
Communicating clearly and effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders, including ministers and senior local government officers.
Working in delivery environment.
Working in a fast paced and complex environment.
Working collaboratively with a wide range of partners to achieve shared goals.

Desirable skills:

Good Microsoft Excel skills
Experience of working on the delivery of growth funds

Behaviours:

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

Delivering at Pace
Seeing the Big Picture
Managing a Quality Service
Communicating and Influencing

Benefits:

Learning and development tailored to your role
An environment with flexible working options
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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Selection process details:

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Strengths.
We are for everyone

We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.
We are for everyone

DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.

Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors.

The assessor won't be reading your answers sequentially.
Do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.
If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on)

At sift, we will be assessing
Behaviour (Lead Behaviour): Delivering at Pace

Behaviour:
Seeing the Big Picture

Behaviour:
Managing a Quality Service

There is a 250 word limit per question.

**The interview will be of a blended natur