Private Secretary to The Director

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Department for International Trade Full time

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

- 263064**Salary**:

- £52,000 - £61,933- £52,000 - £58,652; London: £55,365 - £61,933**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DIT - Trade Negotiations: Trade Policy B - US, Service, Investment and Digital.**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

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Location
- Darlington, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
This an exciting time to work for the Department for International Trade, as the UK continues to develop its trade policy, and negotiate trade deals with countries around the world.

The Director's Private Secretary leads the office of the Director for UK-US Negotiations; Services, Investment and Digital Trade Policy, advising the Director on the full breadth of the Directorate's work and coordinating the engagement with Ministers, other senior officials and senior private sector stakeholders. The Private Secretary needs to work rapidly, covering a wide range of highly sensitive decisions as trade negotiations and Whitehall engagement operate at a fast pace. This requires a broad strategic understanding of the UK’s overall trade policy, excellent senior and stakeholder management skills, and the ability to work at pace to coordinate a large number of stakeholders to achieve these aims effectively.

**Job description**:

- Leading the delivery of the Director’s priorities. This includes supporting the Director to deliver policy priorities across the US, Services, Investment and Digital Trade portfolio, providing advice and briefing on key issues accordingly (including on their leadership of the directorate).
- Developing and managing relationships with a wide variety of teams within DIT (including negotiation teams) to ensure that work is aligned with the Director’s priorities.
- Close collaborative working with policy leads, negotiating teams, legal advisers and private offices across DIT.
- Supporting the senior leadership team in their corporate responsibilities.
- Leading a high performing, inclusive, and resilient team to provide executive support to senior leadership. The role has line management responsibility for three executive assistants, and wider leadership responsibilities across the Directorate.
- Corporate responsibilities, including but not limited to: people data and finance reporting, and leading recruitment on behalf of the Director.

**Hybrid working**

Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas.

Informal hybrid working arrangements will be available as agreed with the vacancy manager and in line with the requirements of the role.

Most DIT employees will be working a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in an office, on average. If your office location is London, you will be eligible to receive London weighting.

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**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and balance competing demands.
- Excellent attention to detail and strong critical thinking skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication.
- Experience of working effectively with senior leaders/ministers.

**Desirable Criteria**
- Experience of working or covering in Private Office.

**Personal Attributes & Skills**

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

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

**Benefits**:

- 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, and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.Interviews for this vacancy will be conducted virtually. We will, however, consider in-person interviews by exception.

Sift will take place week commencing 13/02/2023

Interviews will take place week commencing 20/02/2023

Please align your CV with previous skills and experience. Maximum of 2 A4 pages.

In your personal statement, please demonstrate your suitability for the role with reference to the Essential and Desirable Criteria. Maximum word count of 500.

For this role, the Department will not consider sponsoring a visa or issuing a Certificate of Sponsorship. Please note we are unable to offer advice on any Visa and Immigration cases.

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

The Department for International Trade embraces and values diversity in all forms. We welcome and pride ourselves on the positive impact diversity has on the work we do, and we promote equality of opportunity throughou

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