Programme Outcomes Officer - London, United Kingdom - Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

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- £31,120 - £37,260

National: £31,120 £33,085 London: £34,410 £37,260
Job grade:
Higher Executive Officer
Contract type:
Fixed Term
Loan
Length of employment:
March 2025
Business area:
DSIT
Digital, Technologies and Telecoms
Digital Infrastructure
Type of role:
Analytical
Digital
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
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Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, ManchesterAbout the job

Job summary:

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:

This role is based in the PMO and Outcomes team working on globally important Research and Development within the exciting Future Network Programmes team.

You will get to work across the entire Portfolio, seeing and supporting our telecoms projects' cutting edge findings and impacts as they emerge.

You will work with projects to harvest their findings across a range of telecoms research and development activities and communicate these to enable policy teams and the wider telecoms ecosystem to act on them.

By doing this you will play a key part in maximising the benefits of our Programmes, including the Open Networks program, which has a budget of £250m.

Findings cover all elements of the project, covering project management, technical development, commercial and regulatory.

Engage with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to record programme evidence and outcomes.

Supporting creation and dissemination of insights, lessons and knowledge across stakeholder groups.

Communicate lessons to appropriate parts of the team, ensuring lessons are effectively used.

Supporting projects in executing their responsibilities in relation to capturing and dissemination of lessons learned, and benefit realisation.

Managing and maintaining the lessons learned log, and benefits trackers for FNP.

Supporting analysis of programme performance for reporting to governance groups.

Contributing to monthly and quarterly reporting on benefit realisation, lessons learned and project performance.

Identify opportunities for process improvement and proactively engage with the team to implement.

Person specification:

Essential Criteria

Strong IT skills including using Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel to manage and present data.
Collaborating with and influencing people, within and outside your organisation, to progress work.
Confident writing skill