Senior Policy Advisor Roles

6 months ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Full time

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

- 308549**Salary**:

- £39,884- £39,884 (National) £43,840 (London)- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Other- SPTO**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Leasehold, Land and Planning Systems.**Type of role**:

- Planning**Working pattern**:

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

- 6Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birkenhead, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Darlington, Exeter, Hastings, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Plymouth, Warrington, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Planning is at the heart of delivering the Department’s vision to support people, places and communities. It plays a critical role in bringing forward the new homes the country needs, delivering our environmental objectives from climate change to biodiversity, and facilitating the infrastructure necessary to support economic growth.

The planning system is undergoing significant reform. The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill contains an ambitious package of reform to the system so there are better development outcomes, environmental improvements, and greater community engagement. Over the next year, the Department will be taking forward a major implementation programme to deliver these reforms.

The Department wishes to recruit a number of people with strong planning experience to play key roles in delivering these changes and supporting further policy development. These Senior Planning Officer roles offer an exciting opportunity to help shape the future direction of planning nationally. They cover a wider range of planning matters, including our overall planning strategy and delivery, national planning policy, development management policy, local plan delivery, biodiversity net gain, environmental assessment reforms, nutrient neutrality and infrastructure planning.

**Job description**:
Working as part of small teams, you will provide the specialist planning expertise required to deliver the Government’s objectives.

Many of the roles will involve developing new regulations and national planning policy, requiring significant engagement with Ministers, other Departments, local planning authorities, the Planning Inspectorate and users of the planning system. Some roles will provide an opportunity to work directly on environmental policy and environmental assessment reform.

**Person specification**:
Essential Skills:

- Able to make effective decisions and analyse evidence to present clear conclusions
- Confident at forming strong, effective relationships with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders
- An excellent ability to communicate clearly both in writing and verbally on complex issues
- The ability to work under pressure, successfully delivering against competing priorities
- Technical planning expertise and experience of planning policy and practice
- Good political awareness and understanding of central and local government

Desirable skills (not required for every role)
- Experience of working with legislation
- Experience of environmental assessments

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

- Communicating and Influencing
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Changing and Improving
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace

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

- Technical Presentation

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £39,884, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £10,768 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%

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.**We are for everyone**

**We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.**

We are for everyone

DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.

Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors.
- The assessor won’t be reading your answers sequentially.
- Do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.
- If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on)

**At sift, we will be assessing**

Behaviour 1: Communicating and inf

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