Strategy Lead

2 weeks ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Full time

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

- 297350**Salary**:

- £49,403 - £61,392- National: £49,403 - £55,823 London: £54,328 - £61,392. For details of our pay on appointment policy, please see below under the heading ‘Salary’.- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DEFRA - S&C - Strategy**Type of role**:

- Strategy**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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- Bristol, London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, YorkAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the UK government department responsible for safeguarding our natural environment, supporting our world-leading food and farming industry, and sustaining a thriving rural economy. Our broad remit means we play a major role in people's day-to-day life, from the food we eat, and the air we breathe, to the water we drink.
- Strategy Directorate_

Strategy is a fast-paced, dynamic, and challenging environment. Our purpose is to give a high quality and timely service to Ministers and the Permanent Secretary, and to ensure that Defra group is able to achieve the strategic objectives we set out in our Business Plan.

We work in support of Defra’s strategic objectives, look at how we can join up with other initiatives across the organisation to get things done, support each other to deliver excellent work, help Defra to make good decisions and we identify and unblock barriers to change.

**Location**

This role can be based at any Defra office. We value flexible working, the ability to work at home on an ad hoc basis will be available to be considered.

**Job description**:
Defra’s Delivery Unit (DU) was set up in January 2023 as a new, powerful capability at the heart of Defra to drive forward the department’s ambitious agenda. Defra’s DU focuses on core elements of the Secretary of State’s (SoS) delivery priorities - climate change, farming, biodiversity and water. It works as an integral part of Defra, acting as the guardian of the SoS’s delivery priorities and the associated tools and techniques for getting things done. As such, the unit works very closely with the SoS, her wider Ministerial team, the Permanent Secretary, and Director Generals to drive forward tangible progress through others.

**Currently the DU comprises of around 20 staff, split across two branches**:

- Delivery Unit (operations) - this branch of the unit focuses on working with Defra’s Arms-Length Bodies to focus on capturing key data and metrics to drive progress towards outcomes and developing a consistent, data driven overview of delivery performance and operational activity within the Defra Group.
- Delivery Unit (priorities) - this branch of the unit focuses on the SoS’s delivery priorities, supporting the SoS by providing independent insight and undertaking impartial analysis of data to drive progress towards delivery of outcomes.

We are recruiting for strategy leads across these teams who will need to work collaboratively across strategy and analytical colleagues in the DU.

These are demanding and intellectually stimulating roles, providing an opportunity to combine your ability to rapidly structure problems, with an ability to influence the most powerful decision makers in Defra.

**Main responsibilities include**:

- Lead a portfolio of work, working with the department to develop deep knowledge in your area that enables you to focus on key metrics in the area that will unlock progress.
- Lead the iterating of the data dashboards, thinking about which data and information is most key to allow the DU and the SoS to track and drive progress.
- Work closely with the policy and analysis teams, building strong, trusted relationships, balancing departmental interests and pressures with the need to quickly drive progress for the SoS.
- Work collaboratively across Strategy Group to ensure join up and provide a seamless service to the department.
- Be prepared to advise SoS, ministers, and senior leaders, and able to balance a critical independent view with the departmental view - ensuring that the department is on board at all times.

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

We are looking for a self-motivated, organised and proactive person who is enthusiastic about driving progress alongside senior leadership to deliver impactful change.
- You will be comfortable and highly capable at engaging and influencing ministers and senior officials.
- You will be comfortable with asking difficult questions and challenging your colleagues across the department, acting as a critical yet supportive friend.
- You will enjoy working with and using data to help make decisions. You will also be able to look beyond the data, understand what it means in practice and think about

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