SEO Legislative Strategy Lead for Oversight of - London, United Kingdom - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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- £38,732
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Senior Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • Regeneration
    Type of role:
  • Strategy
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
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  • 1Contents
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  • Bristol, Darlington, London, Manchester, WolverhamptonAbout the job

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This is a fast-paced, high-profile role leading the strategic delivery of DLUHC's Secondary Legislation programme to ensure our Statutory Instrument (SI) pipeline aligns with wider departmental and ministerial priorities and is delivered to standard and time.

As the SI lead within the Legislative Strategy Team you will be responsible for overseeing the planning and delivery of the programme including working collaboratively with cross-functional teams (legal, policy, Private Offices and Bill Teams) to ensure SIs are delivered on time, and within scope.


The Legislative Strategy Team sits in DLUHC's Strategy Unit, a high-performing and friendly division, which is responsible for setting strategic direction, ensuring Ministerial priorities are delivered, and that the department's resources (people, money, capabilities) are aligned with our objectives.


You will be expected to adapt to emerging legislative priorities, identifying and proactively addressing SI risks and working across the department to put in place mitigation strategies and contingency planning.

Through our newly established SI Governance Board, you will work closely with the SRO and wider team to ensure the SI programme stays on track, and report progress to the Ministerial and Executive Team.

You will also lead on SI capability in the department, promoting best practice, managing the department's relationship on SI scrutiny with Parliament and working with other departments as needed.


In return, you will have the opportunity to build your leadership and engagement skills, gain an excellent understanding of how the Department operates, develop insight into a wide range of policy areas, and have significant exposure to senior decision making.

There will also be opportunities to get involved in primary legislation, and other high profile cross-department strategy work


Job description:


  • As a key member of our DLUHC Legislative Strategy Team, you will support the Department in strategic oversight and project management of its extensive Secondary Legislation programme, balancing competing priorities, advising Ministers and the Executive team on key decisions and managing timely delivery. You will report to the G6 Head of the Legislative Strategy team and will be accountable to the SRO for secondary legislation.
  • Responsibilities will include:
  • agreeing strategic priorities for the SI programme, communicating these to key internal stakeholders and ensuring they are driving our programme;
- overseeing sequencing and delivery of our programme through a robust governance process, running the secretariat for the Director chaired governance board so we can track progress and manage the SI pipeline;
- owning the full SI pipeline for the department, including generating an up-to-date SI pipeline with policy and parliamentary teams; and regularly testing this with the SRO and ET;
- leading the department's contact with PBL/No.10 and parliament on strategic oversight of the DLUHC secondary legislation programme and scrutiny;
- building and maintaining constructive and trusting working relationships with stakeholders, including legal professionals, the parliamentary team, private offices and key SROs across the legislative programme; and
- in all of this, working as part of the Legislative Strategy Team in the DLUHC Central Strategy Unit, being part of team meetings and establishing close and trusting relationships with relevant policy and parliamentary teams to deliver our priorities.


In return, the jobholder will be part of a friendly, high performing team, have exposure to decision-making at the most senior levels and gain a comprehensive insight into the operation of a large government department.


Person specification:


  • Essential Criteria
  • This is a stretching, demanding role.
We are looking for a colleague to join us who has experience in:

  • working at pace and managing competing priorities in a dynamic and highly political delivery environment;
- working proactively to progress multiple pieces of work in tandem;
- project managing a complex programme, ensuring timely delivery and keeping on top of key risks and issues;
- excelling at seeing the bigger strategic picture and an ability to constructively challenge to ensure our SI work programme aligns with broader priorities; and
- building trusting and constructive working relationships with a range of colleagues across the departmen
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