Senior Strategy Advisor - Swindon, United Kingdom - UKRI

UKRI

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Swindon, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Salary:
£43,116

Hours:
Full Time / Part Time (Min 0.8 FTE)

Contract Type:
Open Ended

Location:
Swindon, Polaris House or London, Caxton House. (Very flexible hybrid working options available, only required in the office approximately twice a month)

Closing Date:
Sunday 3 March 2024

Job Overview:

The purpose of this role is to support UKRI's ambitions for global mobility by supporting and leading programmes, strategy and policy development across UKRI and engaging across a range of internal UKRI and external stakeholders.

The role will help build the evidence base to understand the impacts and trends of Global Mobility, including through UKRI's own processes and explore how we innovate our activity to ensure our processes and activities align in supporting UKRI's vision and the development of a positive UK R&I culture.

Key Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for:

Developing options and advice, sometimes to rapid timescales, that will inform key decision making and support the development of policy.
Developing and maintaining relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across UKRI, Government and the R&I sector to ensure a joinedup and effective approach to Global Mobility
Secretariat support for key initiatives including the Global Talent visa External Advisory Board, including the strategic development of their work and leading on key outputs.
Programme Management of the UKRI Temporary Worker (Government Authorised Exchange) scheme.
Supporting the Global Mobility Engagement Manager to improve awareness of the team's schemes and thinking around UKRI, the R&I sector and relevant government departments.
Develop tools, programmes and other interventions, including relevant research and innovation policy, to support ongoing improvement in the team's topic area and sharing of good practice at a national and international level.
Develop relationships across the R&I community to help UKRI better understand our role as steward of the sector and what that means.
Support the development of a suite of communication tools to help UKRI to message successfully to the community our ambition and activity in this area
Support colleagues across RICE and the wider Executive team on matters relating to the team's topic area
Contribute to the broader working of UKRI
Within the flexible work style of this new and growing organisation, individual responsibilities may evolve and change to manage the broader range of work priorities.

Person Specification:

Essential

Balance competing priorities and work to deadlines in a fastpaced policy environment, responding positively and often independently to shifting priorities
Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
Building strong collaborative relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
Able to address broad strategic questions based on evidence, and support the development of policy options creatively
Communicate clearly and effectively, providing highquality written and verbal advice to CEO level
Experience working independently and leading on specific pieces of work
Experience delivering and influencing through others, including through engagement with senior staff internally and externally

Desirable

Understanding of the wider context of the work of the Research and Innovation Culture and Environment team within UKRI
Good working level knowledge of and interest in global mobility and immigration policy
Experience of working across multiple government departments
Management and analysis of large datasets
Experience of providing secretariat support to external boards

About UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

UKRI launched in April 2018, UKRI is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).

Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlement, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme.

For more details, visit benefits of working for UKRI.

The role holder will be required to have the appropriate level of security screening/vetting required for the role. UKRI reserves the right to run or re-run security clearance as required during the course of employment.

How we support EDI in the workforce

At UKRI, we believe that everyone has a right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to be provided with equal opportunities to thrive and succeed in an environment that enables them to do so.

We also value diversity of thought and experience within inclusive groups, organisations and the wider community. For further information, please visit 'How we support EDI in the workforce'.

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