Midlands, Yorkshire and The North-east Study Lead

6 months ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Department for Transport Full time

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

- 356766**Salary**:

- £40,808**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Major Rail Projects Group - NPR Development**Type of role**:

- Policy
- Project Delivery**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

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Location
- Birmingham, LeedsAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Would you embrace the opportunity to work in a fast-paced project and policy environment, supporting on developing critical plans?

Do you have excellent interpersonal skills and enjoy collaborating with a range of stakeholders?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity available and would love to hear from you

**Job description**:
Within the role of Midlands, Yorkshire and the North-East (MYNE) Study Lead, you will join a friendly team sitting within the Major Rail Projects Group (MRPG).

You will be responsible for sponsoring the Leeds to Sheffield study work, which forms part of the MYNE work programme, and will look holistically at improving connectivity across the regions. This will include consideration of connectivity improvements in the Northwest and East Midlands, and a series of workstreams considering improvements to Anglo-Scottish rail connectivity. The focus geography of the study work may change to adapt to business needs as the work programme evolves, however would be expected to remain within the wider geographic scope of the MYNE work programme.

You will collaborate with colleagues across DfT’s different modal teams, as well as No 10, HM Treasury and the Department for Levelling Up, Homes and Community (DLUHC), sponsoring and interfacing with Network Rail, Transport for the North, Midlands Connect and major local authorities.

If you would like to find out more about what it's like to work at DfT Rail, please click here.

**Your key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to**:

- Monitoring delivery of the study, ensuring scope is agreed and remits are drafted to DfT requirements, including progress reporting and management of risks and opportunities.
- Actively sponsor Network Rail and providing fair scrutiny and challenge on performance, ensuring plans are integrated with the wider MYNE work programme and action is taken quickly when risks and issues emerge.
- Tracking, monitoring, and reporting project performance, making valuable recommendations that actively manage risks and opportunities to drive project performance.

**For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.**

**Person specification**:
**About you**

You will be an articulate communicator, both verbally and in writing, with the ability to adapt your delivery to suit your audiences. You will feel comfortable handling challenging conversations and pulling back on colleagues and stakeholders where necessary.

You will have excellent interpersonal skills, enabling you to build rapport quickly with others to establish effective working relationships with both colleagues and stakeholders.

You will have the commercial awareness to challenge the planning and delivery from external suppliers to ensure that you are keeping a balance of being involved in the detail yet maintaining a view of the big picture, recognising the importance of people and behaviours in the delivery of projects, supported by good governance and assurance processes.

You will be highly organised with the ability to manage multiple, often conflicting, priorities to time and of a high standard. You will be comfortable operating with autonomy and will remain resilient when faced with ambiguity or changing priorities.

**Additional Information**

This role is available to individuals who wish to be spending their office time in Leeds or Birmingham, and there will be opportunities for the individual to visit alternative DfT offices.

A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.

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

- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions

**Benefits**:
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.

Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport.

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.**How to Apply**
- Experience of working in a mult

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