- Significant experience developing or implementing national legislation or policy, preferably in a heritage, built environment or terrestrial planning context.
- Good understanding of the climate change drivers for adapting historic buildings, and the types of changes that can potentially be made.
- Experience developing and delivering strategic plans through partnership and collaboration with an ability to see the strategic big picture.
- Ability to lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams of people, including working with technical specialists.
- An effective decision-maker who can manage their time well and prioritise a fast-paced, dynamic and demanding workload.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a tailored approach for different audiences, including summarising complex information into clear and concise statements.
Senior Policy Advisor - Cambridge, United Kingdom - DiverseJobsMatter
Description
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are the public body that looks after England's historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.
We have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Senior Policy Adviser as part of our Environmental Management Team, within our wider Policy Development Team, advising government on the development of national legislation, policy and guidance.
In this role you will be managed by the Head of Climate Change, and although the role will primarily be focused on policy associated with adapting historic buildings for Net Zero and climate resilience, there may also be a need to work on other policy areas depending on priorities across the Environmental Management Team and wider Policy Development Team.
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges we face globally. We must change how we live, work and behave if we are to limit further warming and avoid the worst impacts. This includes making changes to our historic buildings to ensure they remain safe and viable to be enjoyed by future generations.
The location of this role is National where we offer hybrid working, you will be based in one of our following offices and from home - Newcastle, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, Bristol, Portsmouth and Cambridge.
Salary
National: £36,800 pro-rata
Cambridge: £39,408 pro-rata
What you will be doing
You will assist the Head of Climate Change to lead and coordinate our advice and engagement with government on adapting historic buildings for energy and carbon efficiency, keeping buildings cool, and flood resilience, including consideration of their immediate landscape context. You will coordinate the input required from other teams across our organisation to inform our advice to government. You will assist the Head of Climate Change to develop and implement effective governance arrangements to coordinate our strategic activities related to adapting historic buildings in response to climate change.
Through the development and delivery of a strategic Policy Engagement Plan you will raise government awareness of the positive role historic buildings can play in achieving a Net Zero emissions and climate resilient society, and ensure heritage is considered in the early stages of government policy development to avoid it being perceived as a barrier during implementation.
Influence government legislation, policy and guidance
Assist the Head of Climate Change to coordinate our organisation's influence across government of the positive role historic buildings can play in in achieving a Net Zero emissions and climate resilient society, and ensure heritage is considered in the early stages of government policy development to avoid it being perceived as a barrier during implementation.
Build, maintain and manage good relationships with relevant government departments and their teams.
Coordinate input from other teams across our organisation to ensure our strategic advice to government is underpinned by evidence-based technical advice and guidance, including working closely with the Head of Historic Building Climate Change Adaptation in Technical Conservation Team.
Assist the Head of Climate Change to identify where other teams across our organisation are best placed to directly advise government – for example on matters specific to technical building performance, planning policy, or industry skills – and ensure the right people are connected between our organisation and government departments.
Horizon scan to identify emerging national legislation, policy and guidance, consultations and calls for evidence that our organisation may wish to engage with or reply to in relation to adapting existing buildings for energy and carbon efficiency, keeping buildings cool, and flood resilience, including consideration of their immediate landscape context.
Lead and coordinate our responses to relevant consultations and calls for evidence, working with and drawing in expertise from relevant teams across our organisation, and identifying where other teams are best placed to lead responses, including but not limited to Policy Development teams, Technical Conservation, Analytics, Sector Skills and Resilience, Public Engagement.
Develop and deliver a strategic Policy Engagement Plan
Working with external partners and teams across our organisation, develop and keep up to date our priority asks to government and identify the upcoming opportunities for engagement and influencing. This will include stakeholder mapping to ensure we are engaging with impact.
Identify the priority actions that we can take to better enable historic buildings to be adapted for energy and carbon efficiency, keeping buildings cool, and flood resilience, including consideration of their immediate landscape context.
Identify where the sector could support our efforts.
Ensure Policy Development teams and colleagues across our organisation are aware of the aims and objectives of the strategic plan to ensure consistent messaging across the organisation.
Assist the Head of Climate Change to develop and manage effective governance arrangements within our organisation to assist delivery of our strategic activities.
Who we are looking for