Npr Engagement

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

- 357562**Salary**:

- £51,997- National salary minimum: £51,997, London salary minimum: £56,844**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Major Rail Projects Group - NPR Development**Type of role**:

- Policy
- Project Delivery
- Strategy**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

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Location
- Birmingham, Leeds, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you an engaging leader with excellent collaboration and influencing skills?

Would you relish an opportunity that provides exposure working with senior leaders?

If so, we have a fantastic opportunity to shape the direction of Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) and deliver on its transformational objectives, and we would love to hear from you.

**Job description**:
Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) is a major infrastructure project in its early stages of development.

In this role you will lead and develop a multi-layered programme of policy development and engagement with key external and internal partners across the NPR geography. You will shape and deliver our stakeholder engagement policy and build strategic partnerships to develop local growth and regeneration policies.

To be successful in this challenging role, you will bring a depth of policy, project delivery, and collaboration and influencing skills and experience. You will work closely with colleagues to advise Ministers, Members of Parliament, senior officials, and a wide range of internal and external partners.

You will be joining our dynamic, inclusive, and friendly team. We are committed to providing development and learning opportunities to ensure you either gain new skills or strengthen existing skills. Working on this project will offer considerable and unique career opportunities.

If you would like to find out more about what it's like to work at DfT Rail, please click here.

**You will lead on the following responsibilities**:

- Building relationships at all levels to ensure the successful delivery of NPR, collaborating with internal teams, delivery partners, other Government Departments and a broad network of external bodies.
- Leading development and delivery of the approach to stakeholder engagement to ensure a coherent and consistent experience for stakeholders across NPR.
- Leading and managing stakeholder relationships on day-to-day issues specifically affecting Liverpool to West Yorkshire sections of NPR.
- Acting as a focal point on communications, correspondence and Q&A pack for the programme.
- Ensuring the programme benefits from the intelligence and evidence gathered through engagement activities.
- Developing a cross-cutting local growth and regeneration policy for NPR.
- Leading the development, launch and response to an NPR wide strategic consultation, and overseeing subsequent route consultations.
- Leading the preparation of high-quality advice and briefings for senior leaders.
- Developing policy on third party funding, building on good practice examples from other infrastructure projects.

**Person specification**:
**About you**

You will have excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, and be an engaging leader, with the credibility to influence at all levels with a range of partners across the programme. You will enjoy working collaboratively to build trusted relationships to successfully deliver Northern Powerhouse Rail.

You will demonstrate a depth of knowledge and experience of policy and project delivery and have the capability to grasp information quickly. You will display high quality drafting skills to prepare written advice and briefings for senior officials.

**Additional Information**

A minimum **60%** 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.

Regular travel to the North of England, in particular Liverpool, Warrington, Manchester and West Yorkshire areas will be required.

For more information on the Policy Profession Standards

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Delivering at Pace

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Policy Profession Standards - 1. Strategy - 1.1. Policy Context and Purpose - Level 1: Developing
- Policy Profession Standards - 2. Democracy - 2.1. Working with Ministers - Level 1: Developing

**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