Head of Community Empowerment Team - Bristol, 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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Bristol, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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- £61,599
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Grade 6
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • Communities and Integration
    Type of role:
  • Policy
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
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  • Bristol, Darlington, Manchester, WolverhamptonAbout the job

Job summary:


  • The Head of the Community Empowerment team leads the department's thinking on how to give people power, resources and opportunities to shape their communities and neighbourhoods.
This is an inspiring, complex and fascinating policy area:
delivering with and through communities can be immensely rewarding and a very interesting policy design challenge


Job description:


You'll be leading a team of 14 who work across a range of policy areas including community wealth building, neighbourhood governance and parishes, community participation and infrastructure, and place-based working.

In addition to delivering specific programmes of work, the team connects with the communities and parishes sector to understand issues, ideas and best practice, and draws on them to develop evidence-based plans for future work.

The team also plays a role 'community-proofing' high profile programmes of work across the department, such as the Long-Term Plan for Towns announced in late 2023, by providing advice and connections with key stakeholders.


To succeed, you will need to build strong connections with other policy teams within the Communities and Integration directorate and within DLUHC, DCMS and other parts of central government.

You will need to maintain an understanding of other relevant work happening across government in the policy area, so you can take a strategic, evidence-based approach to developing policy.

At times you will need to influence other policy teams to deliver your own policy objectives.

You and your team will need to build trusting relationships with communities stakeholders, including by visiting them in the places where they work, so you and the team have a sound understanding of the delivery landscape and the issues that are facing them.

You will need to instil a culture of learning and sharing so that team members remain credible advocates for their policy work.


Key accountabilities

  • Shaping the future agenda of the team and its policies.
  • Delivering by providing challenge, support and oversight of your team to ensure a constant focus on the policy objectives a varied portfolio of work which currently includes:
  • The design of a Community Wealth Fund which will enable communities to change their neighbourhoods in a way which helps them thrive;
  • Changes to neighbourhood governance to enable communities to have more say over issues that affect them;
  • Working with local authority partners, voluntary and community sector organisations and DCMS to develop and share best practice in partnership working between local government and community groups;
  • Socialising the findings of the twoyear, HMTfunded Partnerships for People and Place programme and its ideas for improving how government works in places.
  • Developing and delivering new areas of work in response to the needs of communities and to reflect Ministerial priorities, including overseeing the drafting of clear and compelling advice, briefings and other material.
  • Establishing a strategic approach to working with our external partners, to build trusting, reciprocal relationships which inform policy development and delivery.
  • Investing in your team's development, by understanding their ambitions, interests and development needs, and shaping work and finding opportunities to meet those needs as far as possible.
  • Working with the new DD and two other G6s to create a supportive, expert and connected new division.

Person specification:

This is a welcoming, committed and high-energy directorate.

If you want an exciting and motivating role, with exposure to Ministers and senior officials across government, and with autonomy and the opportunity to develop and deliver interventions that will make a real difference to thousands of lives, then this is the role for you.


You will have experience of working with external partners, and a good understanding of the structural challenges and opportunities of working at neighbourhood level and with community groups.


You will think strategically and be able to make a varied set of policy objectives cohere around a central mission for the team.

You will be able to articulate persuasively the team's objectives and purpose, including to Ministers.

You may have worked in government policy roles, the communities sector or have a strategy background with a keen interest in the issues we work on.


Essential criteria
Ability to maintain a strategic un
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