Strategy Advisor - London, United Kingdom - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Salary:

- £30,792-
Job grade:

Higher Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
Strategy
Type of role:
Policy
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
2Contents

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Location

Darlington, London, WolverhamptonAbout the job

Job summary:

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is responsible for delivering a high-profile policy and legislative agenda for the government, which will level up communities across the country.

We are recruiting for one Higher Executive Officer (HEO) to join the Department's Central Strategy Unit, for a Strategy Advisor role available in the Fiscal Events and Departmental Planning branch of the Unit.

The Central Strategy Unit is responsible for a broad programme of work right at the heart of the Department's ambitious agenda.

We ensure the Department's work is aligned with our Secretary of State's strategic priorities, underpinned by clear objectives and a strong overall narrative.

We push progress on internal opportunities and risks, including through optimising the Department's legislative programme, and maximising outcomes at fiscal events and regular departmental planning processes.

Job description:

Key responsibilities:

The roles are likely to involve working flexibly across the Strategy Division to meet the needs of Ministers and the Executive Team as required

Key responsibilities include:

Contributing to the Department's preparations for fiscal events (for example, Spending Reviews and Spring or Autumn Budget/Statements), ensuring there is a collective 'house view' on our approach to fiscal events; as well as supporting development of an evidence base to guide decision making.
Contributing to the preparation and briefing for Cabinet and Select Committee appearances by Secretary of State and the Permanent Secretary ensuring they can promote departmental priorities and policies at the highest level.
Contributing to the Department's strategic narrative, and supporting Strategy colleagues to establish and track the Department's priorities and ambitions, alongside identifying opportunities, gaps and risks in the achievement of these.
Contributing to advice for Ministers, on Departmental priorities.
Working flexibly across the Strategy Division to meet the needs of Ministers and the Executive Team as required

The role will involve working flexibly across the Strategy Division to meet the needs of Ministers and the Executive Team as required.

We expect all our team members to play an active role in making the division a good place to work, including taking personal responsibility for creating an inclusive environment, where everyone feels valued, building on the excellent results in our last People Survey.

Person specification:

You have an interest in, and ability to consider the bigger picture.
You have a proactive attitude and are confident in taking action to progress difficult priorities.
You have an ability to build trust with a number of stakeholders, tailoring communication styles appropriately.
You can gather and synthesise complex information to brief Ministers and senior officials.
You are organised and can stay on top of shifting priorities, and fastmoving developments.

Behaviours:

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

Communicating and Influencing
Seeing the Big Picture
Delivering at Pace

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, Strengths and Experience.
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 1 (lead behaviour)

Communicating and Influencing

Behaviour - Seeing the big picture

Behaviour - Delivering at pace

Experience - Please outline any past experience and how this is relevant to being successful in this role.

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