Strategy Advisor

6 months ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Department for Work and Pensions Full time

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

- 305842**Salary**:

- £38,469 - £45,919- National Min 38469, Max 41480 Inner London Min 43755, Max 45919**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DWP - Policy Group**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

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

- 7Contents

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About the job

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Location
- Quarry House, Leeds, LS2 7UA, Caxton House, 1-11 Tothill St, London, SW1H 9NA, King’s Court, Hanover Way, Sheffield, S3 7UF. No other locations will be considered.About the job

**Job summary**:
The **Strategy, Implementation and Projects Division** and the **Labour Market Strategy Division** sit within the Strategy Directorate, at the heart of Policy Group in DWP. The Directorate works to provide a clearer focus for policy development on labour market issues, setting the agenda on cross-cutting issues and linking ministerial and departmental priorities together to ensure greater coherence and consistency.

The Strategy, Implementation and Projects Division is made up of there teams: the Implementation Unit, the Strategic Projects Unit and the Overarching Strategy team.

**Job description**:
The Labour Market Strategy Division is made up of:
The **Cross-cutting Labour Market Strategy team**, which works on a variety of high-profile labour market areas, including but not limited to our overall labour market strategy, including how this is delivered through partners and in jobcentres, tackling economic inactivity, supporting work on departmental Spending Reviews and supporting decision-making across labour market policy through governance and secretariat of senior departmental and cross-Government decision making forums.

The **Places Strategy team**, which is responsible for leading DWP’s strategy to level up place-based inequalities (e.g. disparities in employment, skills, health). Getting people both into work and progressing in work is key to levelling up for the whole of the UK, and DWP is playing a central role in this. As part of this, we work to bring a stronger place-based “lens” to the development of new policies across the department in order to drive better policy outcomes by addressing local labour market needs. We also liaise with stakeholders inside and outside the Department to deliver our English Devolution commitments.

The **Sectors and Employers Strategy team**, which is responsible for leading work to remove barriers to employment and progression in a series of priority sectors and for ensuring DWP engages with employers effectively. We work across DWP, with sector owning departments and No.10, and with industry to identify the challenges faced by our customers in accessing or progressing in work in these sectors, and work to remove these barriers. This role will lead on the Green Jobs agenda for DWP, a core part of the Government’s Net Zero Strategy, and on our employer strategy.

The teams are friendly and sociable, with a strong focus on personal and team development. We promote individuals’ development through on-the-job learning and internal and external courses and encourage each other to get involved in new and stretching bits of work as they come up. We are also an inclusive teams that care about encouraging a contribution from all and making the team the best place to work.

Various roles are available within the above teams. Due to the variety of roles on offer, we have roles that would benefit experienced SEOs looking for stretch and evidence towards a move to the next grade as well as others looking to build a good foundation in the SEO role.

Each role is likely to include leadership on discrete, high profile areas, which may include:

- Building and owning relationships with policy teams, analysts, legal, Private Office and operations across DWP, with key partners in other departments, and with local government and industry partners, and leveraging these to support our policy aims.
- Coordinating and challenging internal stakeholders to bring together DWP’s response and involvement in a number of areas and projects, which we use to influence external stakeholders.
- Drafting and delivering high quality advice and briefing for Ministers and senior officials, which takes into account latest developments and the bigger picture, and delivering briefing in-person.
- Monitoring and actioning priorities coming from the centre and other Government Departments in order to ensure cross-Government cohesion.

**Person specification**:

- Ability to evaluate information, think critically, link to the bigger picture, and bring challenge where appropriate. **(Lead criteria)**:

- Ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, potentially with competing aims
- Good communication skills, particularly drafting and briefing skills. Ability to present complex issues

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