Deputy Director, BBC Policy
3 weeks ago
You will be able quickly to grasp and drive complex policy issues, have good judgement skills and demonstrate political awareness. You will work closely with policy and analytical teams in DCMS, Private Office, Special Advisers and Press Office, as well as with a range of other government departments. This is also a portfolio with considerable interest from No10, HM Treasury, FCDO, Ofcom (the independent communications regulator) and, unsurprisingly, the broadcasters themselves. You will therefore need to be adept at providing clear and considered advice to ministers and at managing important stakeholder relations.
Person specification
- Leadership: A track record of driving delivery and providing visible and inclusive leadership, with a proven ability to develop a motivated, engaged, diverse and high-performing workforce. A track record of corporate leadership contributing to wider priorities, and an ability to lead a team working in highly-scrutinised and politically charged environments.
- Making Effective Decisions & Delivering At Pace: Excellent evidence-based strategic and analytical skills, with experience of formulating, leading and implementing strategies, policies and programmes, including when under pressure, and a proven understanding of delivering value for money;
- Seeing the Big Picture: Highly-developed understanding of the political environment, including a broader understanding of how to operate outside of the immediate business area or organisation, and credibility to act as a trusted adviser to ministers and senior officials and stakeholders;
- Communicating and Influencing: Highly-developed written and oral communication skills, with the ability to brief on complex and often sensitive issues, presenting in a clear and concise manner and identifying key messages, with a proven track record in skilful navigation through senior stakeholders across government and industry.
- Working Together: Outstanding ability to forge excellent relationships and adept at successfully influencing, challenging and negotiating, to gain the confidence of key customers and senior stakeholders.
Desirable Skills:
Commercial Experience.
Understanding of broadcasting industry.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Leadership
- Working Together
Alongside your salary of 75,000, Department for Culture, Media and Sport contributes 20,250 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
DCMS operates a hybrid working policy whereby individuals are required to spend at least 60% of their working hours at their hub location and the remaining 40% from home. Occasional travel to other hubs may be required.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
To apply for this post, please send us the following documents no later than 23:55 on Sunday 19 May
2024 via the CS Jobs portal:
- A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you provide employment history that relates to the essential and desirable criteria, and that any gaps in employment history within the last 2 years are explained. The CV should not exceed more than 3 x A4 pages and you should insert your CV into the "Job History" section on Civil Service Jobs on the Civil Service Jobs application form.
- A Statement of Suitability (max 1,000 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role in reference to the essential requirements highlighted. You may also choose to reference the desirable skills listed.
For the shortlist, we will assess your experience and select applicants demonstrating the best fit for the role by considering the evidence provided in your application.
The panel will assess your application to select those demonstrating the best fit with the role by considering the evidence you have provided against the criteria set out in the essential requirements and desirable skills section of this pack. Failure to address any or all of these may affect your application.
Feedback
Please note you will only receive feedback if you reach the interview stage. Following interview, all candidates will receive a score along with some short written feedback on your performance at interview.
If shortlisted, you will be invited to a Staff Engagement Exercise: A structure exercise which involves shortlisted candidates facilitating a discussion with a selection of staff from the Department on a given topic. The exercise will take place via Google Meet.
Interview
The interview process will assess behaviours, experience and will include a presentation.
The behaviours to be tested at interview are:
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Working Together
As part of your interview, you will be asked to deliver a short oral presentation. Full details of this, including the topic, and whether or not you will need to use visual aids, will be sent to you prior to your interview.
Your interview will take place, in person, at 100 Parliament Street.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.
As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window) .
See our vetting charter (opens in a new window) .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
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) .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window) .
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