Deputy Parliamentary Clerk

4 days ago

London, United Kingdom Department for International Trade Full time

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

- 283588**Salary**:

- £41,553 - £45,354**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DIT - SI: Ministerial Strategy**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Parliamentary Policy and Strategy Team sits within the Ministerial Strategy Directorate (MSD). The team leads the strategic engagement with Parliament and parliamentary process across the Department for International Trade (DIT). It combines a policy and engagement function with day to day and programmatic engagement with Parliament and its Committees.

The Parliamentary Policy and Strategy Team is seeking a talented and ambitious individual to fill a role at the heart of the dynamic and fast-paced Department for International Trade. This role sits within the Parliamentary Unit who are responsible to managing the day to day running of the department’s Parliamentary business, including:

- Debates
- Urgent Question (UQs)
- E-Petitions
- Oral Question (OPQs)
- Written Parliamentary Questions (PQs)
- Oral and Written Ministerial Statements
- Secondary Legislation and laying Statutory Instruments (SIs)

We are also responsible for upskilling the Department on Parliamentary matters and ensuring the Department maintains an excellent relationship with its Parliamentary stakeholders. The role offers good exposure to the inner workings of Ministerial Private Offices and operations at the highest levels of the department.

DIT recognises and promotes an environment that welcomes and values diverse backgrounds, thinking, skills and experience. Having an inclusive organisation, where people are able to bring their ‘whole selves’ to work, enables everyone to fulfil their potential and to produce their best work. DIT’s culture of inclusion is underpinned by our staff networks which cover disability, faith and belief, gender equality, social mobility, age, race, LGBTQI+, and how to be an ally.

Our people value our fast-paced and high-performing environment, where no two days are the same and they have licence to work creatively to solve challenging issues. We promote and support a range of flexible working patterns enabling staff to balance home and work responsibilities. If all of this sounds appealing, we would love to hear from you.

**Job description**:
As Deputy Parliamentary Clerk, you will support the Parliamentary Clerk in managing and motivating a high performing team that provides first-class parliamentary support and procedural advice to the department and ministers.

You will play an important role in leading the department’s Oral Questions process as well as supporting its wider parliamentary work. You will coordinate the Ministerial briefing, rebuttal and topical packs, ensuring Ministers have all the required information to support their Chamber appearance. You will lead on commissioning substantive and topical questions to policy officials, providing parliamentary intelligence to ensure answers are drafted in line with Ministerial preferences.

You will support the Parliamentary Clerk in managing Written Parliamentary Question (PQ), ensuring there is a robust plan in place to drive up our departmental statistics, improving the quality and timeliness of answers and clearances. You will ensure there is a fair distribution of PQs amongst the team, commissions questions to policy officials and maintain the daily PQ grid which is circulated to the department.

You will need to provide leadership within the team, support the Parliamentary Clerk and ensure the Parliamentary Unit delivers excellent customer service to Ministers, the Department and Parliament. You will line manage the Parliamentary Manager (HEO) and Parliamentary Support Officer (EO), ensuring the team continuously improves through active performance management and providing a range of learning and development opportunities for the department, specifically on PQ and oral questions matters.

Your work will contribute to supporting our Ministers, Special Advisers and senior officials in the department deliver on key Government priorities, specifically in relation to Business and Trade. You will have the opportunity to develop relationships and links between the Department and contacts in the Houses of Parliament, when representing the Department and Ministers to House authorities.

**Hybrid working**

The role will be based in London.

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.

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