Policy Adviser

2 weeks ago


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

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 344410**Salary**:

- £38,732-
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Local Government and Resilience and Communities**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Darlington, Manchester, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
DLUHC wants to see a strong, resilient and sustainable local government sector, delivering high quality services to local people. The Local Government Policy (LGP) directorate is responsible for oversight and performance monitoring of the local government sector, ensuring it is fit for purpose and resilient to deliver the government's priorities. The Local Government Strategy and Improvement Division sits within LGP and shapes the overarching strategic approach to local government and plays a pivotal role in considering the long-term direction of the sector.

We are looking for an SEO Policy Advisor to help bring together work on the capacity and capability of local authorities and shape the department's strategic role and response to key priorities such as workforce and leadership issues.

The post holder will also be expected to lead on local government commercial capacity issues, working in partnership with the Cabinet Office, as the lead Department on commercial policy, to grip emerging issues and lead DLUHC response accordingly.

This role provides a great opportunity to work in an inclusive and welcoming team focussed on shaping a culture that values diversity and empowering all our people to build rewarding careers.

**Job description**:
The role is well-suited to a confident self-starter who is interested in local government and enjoys working in fast-paced and high-profile areas, with the ability to influence and support senior leaders. Experience of working in and/or with local authorities is highly desirable but not essential. Experience of the local government commercial landscape is also desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities include:

- Strengthening our understanding of capacity and capability in local government and developing our response to issues, leading on pieces of work in areas such as leadership, and workforce.
- Contributing to strategic thinking on how to best support the local government sector to ensure a sustainable and high-performing workforce fit for the future, regarding issues such as recruitment and retention and leadership pipeline.
- Lead on local government commercial business of state activities (correspondence, written parliamentary questions etc).
- Lead and contribute to high quality advice for senior leaders, the Permanent Secretary and Ministers, drawing from a wide range of sources, and carrying out analysis on the evidence to demonstrate excellent policy appraisal and development of options.
- Work with teams across DLUHC, Whitehall and external stakeholders to develop a clear set of priorities for local government and support the development of policy that reflects and supports the cross-cutting capacity and capability pressures facing the sector.
- Ensure positive engagement while building and maintaining trusting relationships across the directorate, the department and Private Offices.
- All teams within the Division have regular exposure to Ministers; the post holders will need to develop a relationship with Ministers’ Private Offices and will likely have the opportunity to brief Ministers face to face.
- Play an active leadership role in the division, role modelling behaviours and working flexibly across teams in an agile manner.
- Support wider priorities within the capacity and capability team and Local Government Strategy and Improvement division, as required.

**Person specification**:
This is a complex, challenging and rewarding role. To be successful you will need to be able to demonstrate the following key skills and experience:

- Have excellent written and verbal skills - confident communicator who can relay complex information in concise and straightforward terms, often at pace.
- Be a politically aware strategic thinker with high levels of attention to detail, sound judgment and the ability to solve problems independently.
- Have an understanding of how to tailor messaging to different audiences (including influencing senior leaders and external stakeholders).
- Have the capability to flexibly adapt to changing circumstances, shifting priorities and fast-moving developments whilst remaining calm and maintaining performance.
- Have the ability to build and maintain good networking relationships with partners and stakeholders, and at times deliver challenging messages to them.
- Have strong organisational skills and the ability to actively prioritise multiple issues/tasks.
- Have



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