Policy Advisor London, England
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We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
Do you have exceptional organisational skills?
Are you looking for a varied role?
Do you enjoy communicating with various stakeholders?
If so, we would love to hear from you!
Job description
The London Funding & Financing team is a team which has delivered five emergency funding packages for Transport for London (TfL) since 2020. The most recent funding agreement sees us and TfL delivering at pace key conditions to put TfL on a more financially sustainable footing and to develop the longer-term relationship between government and TfL.
As a policy advisor in the team, you will lead, shape and develop major workstreams to deliver on this important agenda. The policy advisor will play a key part in delivering the division’s objectives including ensuring TfL adheres to the conditions in the funding deal. You will need to establish collaborative working level relationships with private office, TfL and HMT colleagues as part of the work.
Main Duties:
The role will have responsibility for leading a range of work streams, for example including:
- Providing high-quality briefings including ministerial briefings reporting on TfL’s financial position and policy recommendations
- Organising and planning the team’s stakeholder engagement, including performing a ‘secretariat’ function for key meetings with stakeholders and external consultants
- Coordinating the responses to correspondence on high profile issues working collaboratively with internal and external colleagues
- Leading on discrete policy areas and contributing to wider policy development in line with government priorities
- Ensuring the conditions in the funding agreement with TfL are met by monitoring TfL’s compliance with the terms of the agreement
- Leading on the communications and parliamentary handling of matters relating to TfL funding, in partnership with private offices and the department’s communications and press teams
- Be an active member of the London Funding and Financing Division and contribute to making this a supportive and inclusive place to work.
For further information, please see the attached Role Profile
Person specification
We would love a confident individual to join us who can deliver the right messages to the business in a professional and clear way.
You will also have the following:
- Be agile, reactive and flexible by responding quickly to changing requirements
- Deliver at pace by keeping the team’s efforts focused on the top priorities
- Working with different people by encouraging joined up team work within own team and across other groups
- Communicate clearly verbally and in writing by ensuring communication has a clear purpose and considers people’s individual needs
Whilst we welcome applications from candidates looking for part-time work, there is a business requirement for the successful candidate to work a minimum of 30 hours per week.
A minimum of 40% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
Benefits
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.
Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport.
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When considering applying please look at how your experience relates to the role.
Please tailor your 1000 word Personal Statement to match the role and its responsibilities as well as provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following:
- Producing high quality briefings or pieces of written communications to provide recommendations
- Working to tight deadlines with competing priorities, under pressure
- Encouraging joined up team working with others to meet common objectives
- Assessing complex information and communicating clearly and persuasively
The sift is due to take place from 14th August 2023.
Interviews are likely to be held from week commencing 25th August 2023.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
- An interview
This interview could be conducted online via Teams. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.
Reasonable Adjustments
As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
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If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
This job advert contains links to the DfT Careers website. Our website provides useful guidance and information that can support you during the application process. If you cannot access the information on our website for any reason, please email [email protected] for assistance.
Further Information
For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.
Pre-employment Checking
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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