5g Policy Advisors X3 Roles - London, United Kingdom - Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Details:


Reference number:


Salary:

- £31,884 - £39,587
  • National: £31,884 £36,024 London: £35,038 £39,587
    Job grade:
  • Higher Executive Officer


  • Senior Executive Officer

  • Grade B
    Contract type:
  • Fixed Term
  • Loan
    Length of employment:
  • 2 years
    Business area:
  • DCMS
  • Digital Infrastructure
    Type of role:
  • Policy
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share
    Number of jobs available:
  • 3Contents
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About the job


Benefits:

Things you need to know

Location

  • Belfast, Darlington, London, ManchesterAbout the job

Job summary:


Job description:


Responsibilities and Tasks

  • Designing and implementing policies to drive takeup of innovative 5Genabled services (such as remote healthcare).
  • Working with DCMS' Barrier Busting Taskforce to design and deliver policies to make it cheaper and easier to rollout 5G.
  • Leading strategic engagement with local authority and industry stakeholders to speed up deployment of 5G networks, and developing close partnerships with government departments to support digital infrastructure rollout.
  • Supporting the Government's work on key structural and regulatory issues affecting the mobile market.

Person specification:


Essential requirements:

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Delivering at Pace:

- ability to organise own work and working with focus to get jobs done on time and keep colleagues and stakeholders updated
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Making effective, strategic decisions - drawing on evidence and analysis and the expertise of others to support the development of well thought through decisions or recommendations for seniors
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Communication and collaboration - ability to work with teams internal and external to the organisation with the confidence to influence and negotiate with others
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Working with external stakeholders - ability to work with external stakeholders, building strong relationships across the sector


Desirable skills:


  • Experience of working with the telecoms sector
  • Experience of working with Government or local authority stakeholders
  • Experience of analysing qualitative and quantitative information to inform evidencebased decision making

Behaviours:

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

  • Delivering at Pace
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together
  • Delivering at Pace

Benefits:

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 and adoption leave.
  • Staff reward and recognition bonuses that operate throughout the year.
  • Occupational sick pay.
  • Active and engaged staff networks to join including the LGBT+, Ethnic Diversity, Mental Health and Wellbeing and Gender Equality Networks.
  • Exceptional learning and development opportunities that you can explore alongside your day to day work.
  • Season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme and much more
Things you need to know


Selection process details:


  • This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
  • A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years.
  • A Statement of Suitability (max 750 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role in reference to the essential requirements highlighted. You may also choose to reference the desirable skills listed.
  • A 250 word statement on behaviour
  • Delivering at pace

Interview
The interview process will assess Behaviours and Strengths and potentially include a presentation.

The Behaviours to be tested at interview are:

  • Delivering at Pace
(lead behaviour)

  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together
You will not be made aware of the strengths being assessed prior to your interview.

As part of your interview, you will be asked to deliver a short oral presentation.

Full details of this, including the topic, and whether or not you will need to use visual aids, will be sent to you prior to your interview.


Further Information
A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a cr
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