Policy Lead

2 weeks ago

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

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

- 339360**Salary**:

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

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Group: Regeneration Directorate: Places, Infrastructure and Housing Delivery**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

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

**Job summary**:
The role sits in the Planning Infrastructure division in the Planning Reform and Housing Quality Directorate. The division is currently leading work across Government to deliver system wide reforms to the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) planning process that were announced in the NSIP Reform Action Plan (February 2023). This includes identifying and delivering policy and operational changes that could halve the time it takes for major infrastructure projects to receive a development consent decision.

This ambitious change programme is about working in partnership across Government and with delivery agencies to improve processes and ensuring these work for our wide range of stakeholders who engage with them. Our programme supports critical Government ambitions around net zero, energy security, and levelling up through the delivery of critical national infrastructure. Our key stakeholders include: the Planning Inspectorate, senior Ministers and officials across Government, developers and promoters of major infrastructure schemes, communities in which planning consent is sought, and Government bodies such as Natural England, the Environment Agency, and the National Trust, which are statutory consultees in the planning process.

**Job description**:
You will be supporting the delivery of key operational changes to the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP) Planning process to transform the approach to consenting infrastructure. This includes delivery of practice and operational changes to Defra Arm's Length Bodies (ALBs), the Planning Inspectorate, and other Government Departments.

You will need to work across the DLUHC NSIP team and with partners across Government organisations (both in departments and ALBs). Although desirable, being part of the planning profession is not a formal requirement for this role as the role would be adapted to support experience and skills across the team.

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

- Strong decision making and judgement skills, with an ability to synthesise and explain complex issues effectively.
- Ability to communicate clearly in writing, verbally, and through visual means, tailoring communication appropriately depending on the audience.
- The ability to work under pressure, successfully delivering against competing priorities within a fast-paced environment.
- The ability to work autonomously, with good organisational skills and enthusiasm in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

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

- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace

**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 employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours.**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: (Lead Behaviour) Seeing the Big Picture

Behaviour: Making Effective Decisions

Behaviour: Communicating and Influencing

Behaviour: Delivering at Pace

There is a 250 word limit per question.

**The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of the following success profiles elements**:
Behaviours: Seeing the Big Pict

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