Policy Advisor - London, United Kingdom - Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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- £31,120 - £37,260

National: £31,120 £33,085 London: £34,410 £37,260
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Higher Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
DSIT
Digital, Technologies and Telecoms
Data Policy
Type of role:
Policy
Security
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
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DSIT
The responsibilities for the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology for 2023 are as follows:

Positioning the UK at the forefront of global scientific and technological advancement
Driving innovations that change lives and sustain economic growth
Delivering talent programmes, physical and digital infrastructure and regulation to support our economy, security and public services
R&D funding

For 2023, our priorities are:

Optimise public R&D investment to support areas of relative UK strength and increase the level of private R&D to make our economy the most innovative in the world.
Promote a diverse research and innovation system that connects discovery to new companies, growth and jobs including by delivering worldclass physical and digital infrastructure (such as gigabit broadband), making the UK the best place to start and grow a technology business and developing and attracting top talent.
Put our public services including the NHS and schools at the forefront of innovation, championing new ways of working and the development of inhouse STEM capability to improve outcomes for people.
Strengthen international collaboration on science and technology in line with the Integrated Review, and ensure our researchers are able to continue to work with leading scientists in Europe and around the world.
Deliver key legislative and regulatory reforms to drive competition and promote innovation, including the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill and our proinnovation approach to regulating AI.
Pass the remaining stages of the reformed Online Safety Bill to keep British people, especially children, safe online.

Our Inclusive Environment

We are building an inclusive culture to make the Department a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves.

We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.

We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension.

We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer.

We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.

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Job description:

We live in a datadriven world. This yield benefits and opportunities, many of which are set out in the National Data Strategy. Nonetheless, with opportunity comes risk.
Data security policy sits at the centre of the debate on how to balance the benefits created by the data economy, with the challenges this poses to national and economic security.
Our vision is to keep the UK safe and protected by establishing safeguards to minimise national security threats posed to and by data, balanced against the need for access to data to support our science and tech objectives.
HMG is setting the foundations to be able to act in the face of this problem.
You will be joining a team that is responsible for designing and implementing policy options to address this challenge, anticipated to become increasingly in the spotlight of the National Security Council and other key decision makers in government

Person specification:

This role offers a great variety of responsibilities and tasks both developing and delivering a new policy area but also working on live national security cases. It requires the successful delivery of policy priority projects over a sustained period in complex, high profile, high security classification and highrisk policy environment when you do not necessarily hold the direct levers to instil action.
Develop an indepth knowledge of the National Security & Investment (NSI) Act review process, which seeks to review UK investment transactions,
Lead on assessment and management of cases in the data infrastructure sector to determine if any national security risks arise from foreign direct investment
Undertake policy work to consider key issues related to the development NS&I of the process with the ISU.
Think strategically and undertake horizon scanning to consider potential upcoming national security risks in the data infrastructure sector, and a