Senior Policy Advisor

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Full time

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Salary:

- £49,697
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Grade 7
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • A Local Government & Public Services Grouping Local Government Finance
    Type of role:
  • Policy
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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About the job

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Location

  • Darlington, London, Manchester, WolverhamptonAbout the job

Job summary:

The Business Rates Retention system is a fundamental part of local government funding. Local government currently collects c.£25 billion per year in business rates from local ratepayers.

Through the Business Rates Retention System (BRRS), local authorities keep about £14 billion of this to help fund local services as well as incentivising them to grow their local economy, improve the local area and support businesses to grow.

Operation of the system is also a key department priority.

The Business Rates Retention Operations Team administers the Business Rates Retention System.

The team must respond to the constant policy change and large challenges - for example delivery of key measures to reform of the system and to support the devolution agenda.

This frequently results in new and exciting problems to understand and solve to ensure that the system remains functional.


This role will play a critical role in responding to policy initiatives to adapt the system to deliver Ministerial priorities; ensuring that the correct sums are paid by and collected from authorities; and that the extensive body of secondary legislation under which the scheme operates is up to date.


Because retained business rates account for a significant proportion of local government funding and because the administration of the BRRS is the department's single largest financial responsibility, Ministers, the Permanent Secretary, senior officials and HM Treasury take a keen interest in the work of the team.


Job description:


This is an excellent opportunity to join a team which operates an established technical system in a broad, changing and high profile policy landscape.

The jobholder will develop an extensive and robust knowledge of the system's design and function. They will hold key responsibilities as part of the core team's day-to-day administration of the scheme.

They will liaise extensively with other teams within the department including policy and strategy teams, analysts and lawyers, to ensure that the business rates retention system continues to operate efficiently and effectively and to ensure that the system's operation is responsive to new ministerial policy initiatives.


Responsibilities


The jobholder will have discrete responsibilities all of which will work towards achieving the objectives that the business rates operations team are accountable for within the department.

Broadly, the team aim to ensure that the business rates retention system operates efficiently and effectively for both local and central government.


Specifically, you will:

  • Develop and implement effective technical changes to the system as required to ensure that changes in the operating environment accurately reflect new Ministerial policy initiatives for example, changes to business rates policy or local government funding and devolution initiatives
  • Provide technical expertise of the system to Ministers and colleagues who are responsible for local government funding reform to ensure that proposed policy changes involving the system are fully assessed for deliverability and viability considerations
  • Work in collaboration with analysts and statisticians to ensure that twice annual data collections and supporting guidance documents, used to operate the system, are robustly designed ensuring that processes are followed so that the correct calculations are made regarding payments to/from local and central government
  • Work closely with lawyers to ensure that the legislative framework that underpins the system is up to date, accurately reflecting evolving policy intentions
  • Lead the team's formal governance arrangements which oversee the operation of the system this includes governance board secretariat responsibilities and overseeing processes to track risks, issues, and queries in relation to the operation of the system
  • Represent the department by engaging directly with local authorities in a collaborative manner to ensure that local government fully understands the scheme and can effectively deliver their role in system's operation

Person specification:

  • Be required to translate policy proposals into required changes to keep a funding system functional by making accurate judgements to amend the system within a constantly evolving policy context.
  • Be highly numerate with the ability to ensure that complex calculations and formulae remain c

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