Policy Officer

3 months ago

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

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

- 325761**Salary**:

- £32,178-
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

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

- 6Contents

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- Bristol, Darlington, Leeds, Manchester, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- The new Office for Local Government (Oflog) is a key priority of the Secretary of State. Oflog will help to drive improvement in local government - responsible for a wider range of critical and everyday services - in order to improve outcomes for the public. It will do this by providing authoritative and accessible data and analysis about the performance of local government, so that local leaders can benchmark themselves against their peers and communities can more effectively challenge their authorities.**Job description**:
Oflog is an office of DLUHC, meaning all staff are DLUHC civil servants. Ministers have agreed that it will have a degree of separation from government, with its own independent Chair and Chief Executive. Oflog is a mixed-discipline team, including policy and local government experts, and analysts from a range of disciplines.

We are recruiting for several (up to 6) HEO roles. Oflog is rapidly growing and putting its new responsibilities into practice. This is an exciting time, as we develop policy, which will influence how Oflog works in years to come. We are looking for energetic and insightful individuals to join the team during this set up phase and to get our work underway.

The posts that we are seeking to fill include:

- ** Data Policy** One of Oflog’s core products is the Local Authority Data Explorer. These posts will lead on identifying and agreeing a well-rounded, carefully curated, and accessible basket of measures that give a snapshot of how a local authority is performing.
- ** Improvement Policy** We are developing a new approach to avoiding local authority failure by identifying councils with emerging risk earlier in the process and ensure they are supported to turn off the path towards failure at an earlier juncture. The exact work is likely to include: helping to develop policy proposals from the ground up; testing those proposals with senior internal and external stakeholders in order to iterate and improve them; and supporting the first pilots of our work.
- ** Engagement **Engaging with a range of stakeholders, but primarily with local government, is crucial in developing Oflog. An engagement team role covers a wide range of responsibilities, including: developing, implementing, maintaining and monitoring key engagement activities with stakeholders; working with teams to shape engagement for the Chair, Chief Executive and other Oflog officials; and working on core communications products such as briefings and correspondence.
- ** Strategy** The strategy team will be at the heart of supporting the Chief Executive and Chair to develop and support the delivery of Oflog’s core missions. Responsibilities may include: helping to set and iterate the objectives of the organisation; and supporting on the strategic relationship with the sponsoring department; supporting engagement and relationship management with key players across government, think tanks and academia.

**Person specification**:
**Essential**:

- Strong oral and written skills including the ability to communicate detailed information succinctly and clearly.
- Ability to work collaboratively, build consensus and influence outcomes, both within and outside HM Government.
- Ability to develop policy solutions to complex situations where there could be competing interests or incomplete information.
- Resilience and willingness to be flexible under pressure.
- Ability to balance competing demands whilst delivering high quality outputs.
- Strong organisational and management skills.
- An interest in the local government sector in the broad sense, passionate about ensuring good outcomes for the current and future sector and partners, and eager to help drive DLUHC’s contribution to delivering Levelling Up.

**Desirable**:

- Experience of working on high profile and fast paced issues, preferably in the local government space.
- Good knowledge and demonstrable understanding of the local government sector.
- Strong grasp of the data and digital environment.

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £32,178, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £8,688 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 employ

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