Policy Advisor

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Department for Culture, Media and Sport Full time

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

- 305829**Salary**:

- £31,884 - £39,587- £31,884 - £36,024 (National Pay); £35,038 - £39,587 (London Pay) + benefits- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer
- Senior Executive Officer- Band B**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term
- Loan
- Secondment**Length of employment**:

- 2 Years**Business area**:

- DCMS - Arts, Heritage and Tourism**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Darlington, London, ManchesterAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The DCMS International Hub is a new team, established following a recent Departmental restructure. The Hub will work with colleagues throughout DCMS and across government to represent DCMS’s global interests, and those of our sectors. In the first instance, it will be based in DCMS’s Arts, Heritage and Tourism directorate.

The team’s responsibilities will include: coordinating DCMS’s international and cross-government engagement; delivering programmes of international Ministerial Visits; driving forward DCMS’s interests in trade and export policy; developing DCMS’s approach to international boycotts, divestment and sanctions policy; and developing a new international strategy for DCMS.

This is an exciting opportunity to support the establishment of a brand new team, and contribute to developing an excellent working culture. The Hub will play a pivotal strategic role in DCMS’s development, and as such we anticipate that these roles will be challenging and rewarding, with a chance to work closely with senior officials and ministers to help shape the strategic direction of DCMS’s international goals.

**Job description**:
Policy Advisor - Economic Deterrence Initiatives
- The postholder in this role will be responsible for representing DCMS in the cross-government approach to economic deterrence initiatives, including boycotts, divestment and sanctions.
- The postholder will support the coordination of a range of cross-government Working Groups, representing DCMS equities and policy positions to ensure that Departmental interests are represented. They will also support the development of DCMS’s and its sectors’ approach to future boycotts, divestment and sanctions policy, and its implementation in DCMS, ensuring that policy colleagues have a high level of sanctions capability.
- The postholder must hold, or be willing to obtain, DV clearance.

**Person specification**:
Essential Requirements:

- Ability to work at pace in a changing environment.
- Ability to develop and maintain expertise in their brief, and to provide high quality advice to senior civil servants and Government ministers as needed.
- Ability to work with other Government departments and wider stakeholders
- Ability to proactively solve problems, using a wide range of skills and approaches, to defend our sectors interests and reach workable solutions
- Ability to prioritise between multiple workstreams and drive towards long term goals, whilst achieving short term ambitions
- Ability to build effective working relationships with colleagues in other teams, to achieve results that work for everyone.

Desirable Skills:

- Experience working as part of teams to deliver policy successes
- Experience of writing formal briefing papers or equivalent
- Developing and maintaining project management products and approaches for a wider team
- Experience organising international-facing events for visiting Ministers and officials or equivalent
- Evidence of an interest in international affairs and continued professional development to develop understanding of this area
- Experience in international policy e.g. working with multilateral organisations is not essential but highly desirable

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

- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £31,884, Department for Culture, Media and Sport contributes £8,608 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.DCMS values its staff and offers a wide range of benefits to everyone who works here. We’re committed to developing talent, and supporting colleagues to have great careers in our department. To support with that, some of the benefits we offer include:

- Flexible working arrangements and hybrid working - DCMS staff work on a flexible basis with time spent in offices, and time spent working from home
- 26.5 days annual leave on entry, increasing to 31.5 days after 5 years’ service
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- Access to the Edenred employee benefits system which offers discoun



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