Devolution Policy Adviser

6 months ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Department for Work and Pensions Full time

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

- 335291**Salary**:

- £40,201 - £47,986- National Min £40,201 - Max £43,347. Inner London £45,724 - £47,986**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**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Cardiff, Wales, CF10 1EP : Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 8FT : Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, LS2 7UA : Sheffield, Yorkshire and the Humber, S3 7UF : City of Westminster, London (region), SW1H 9NAAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Devolution Team plays a vital role within Policy Group, supporting DWP to manage its relationships with the devolved administrations to enable effective delivery of DWP policy.

This is a high profile, varied and diverse role providing advice and guidance for policy leads across DWP on how to work with the devolved administrations, and to giving a view on the political sensitivities which impact on social security, pensions and child maintenance. This enables and supports policy development to the benefit of the whole UK.

**Job description**:
You will need to build and maintain close working relationships with a range of colleagues working for the devolved administrations, with the UKG’s territorial offices for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Office, OGDs and DWP policy officials across all teams. You will also be expected to take a proactive approach to intelligence gathering across the whole of the UK, to build your understanding of the policy and delivery landscape. This role would suit someone who takes an interest in the political landscape across the UK.

You will also take part in delivering our capability building programme across DWP, presenting awareness sessions to staff across the Department on a regular basis.

The high-profile nature of this role makes it ideal for someone looking to develop themselves in a unique area of work, it provides an excellent opportunity to build competence in a fast paced and business critical role. Previous experience in the legislative process, and an interest in a highly technical and detailed role would be advantageous.

There may also be opportunities to line manage within the role, and the role involves an element of matrix management.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Key Criteria**
- Experience of working in a high profile, ever changing, fast paced environment **(Lead Criteria).**:

- Experience of drafting high quality communications products.
- Experience of building positive working relationships with a range of colleagues and stakeholders. Working with and earning the trust of colleagues at all levels.
- Experience of working on own initiative and prioritising tasks to meet tight deadlines and conflicting demands.
- Experience in delivering presentations to groups.

**Desirable**

Previous experience of working on legislation would be useful.

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

- Working Together
- Leadership
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing

**Benefits**:
You’ll join us in one of our DWP hub locations of **Leeds, London** or** Sheffield**, or one of the UK Government Hubs in **Cardiff or Edinburgh.** For jobs located in Wales, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

Our team has the opportunity to balance their personal lives and their work. We offer flexible hours, and hybrid working and lots of family friendly policies. Working flexibly means that at those times when you might need to work longer to get the job done, you can build up time that you can use to start later, finish earlier or take extra days off. The work we do is important, and we know healthy and happy people do better work.

In return for your skills, we offer an attractive civil service pension with employer contributions of over **26%** into a defined benefit pension scheme and a generous leave package starting at **25 Days**, rising to **30 Days** over time.

We have a broad benefits package to support your work-life balance which includes:

- Volunteering and charitable giving
- Discounts and savings on shopping, days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it’s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Sports and social activities
- Learning and development, including coaching, mentoring, progression opportunities and guaranteed 5-days learning per year
- And lots more

**Location**

PLEASE NOTE: due to the specialist nature of this role, we particularly welcome applicants who are based in either Scotland or Wales.
- Ty William Morgan, Cardiff CF10 1EP
- Queen Elizabeth House, Edinburgh EH8 8FT
- Quarry House, Leeds LS2 7UA
- Caxton House, 6 -12 Tothill St, London SW1H 9NA
- King’s Court, Hanover Way, Sheffield S3 7UF

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