Strategic/policy Lead

4 weeks ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Full time

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

- 270326**Salary**:

- £37,064-
**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Local government and Communities Incl. Integration**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

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

- 4Contents

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- Bristol, Darlington, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) is setting up the Office for Local Government (Oflog) - a new body that was announced in the Levelling Up White Paper earlier this year. Oflog will be a data-driven body with the purpose of providing a transparent and authoritative source of information about the performance of local government.

We are recruiting for a number of SEO roles, across a broad range of policy teams and functions. These include Local Government Outcomes, Policy and Strategy, Engagement and Communications and Operations.

**Job description**:
**Local Government Outcomes**
The post holder will also be required to join up the work with the wider LG transparency agenda, LG Capacity and Capability, and the LG accountability regime which ensures the local government system has all the checks and balances needed to account to residents and central government. This role also involves an element of performance management operations such as programme level co-ordination, high level briefings, reports, and performance monitoring reporting.

The post holder will oversee the open local government and transparency policy area, leading correspondence and briefing for senior officials and ministers, as well as leading a consultation and potential legislative reform.

**Policy and Strategy**

**Engagement and Communications**
The post holder will work with senior stakeholders and manage risk and reputation, delivering real time rebuttal as well as creative, original and proactive media moments.

**Operations**
The post holder will be responsible for supporting the set-up of vital systems and processes needed to ensure Oflog can exercise its functions and work effectively. The post holder will work collaboratively with specialist colleagues and teams to support the requirements of the body and its delivery objectives.
The post holder will work across the following areas: Business administration, finance, HR, procurement, health and safety, contracts management, amongst others. In doing so, the post holder will support corporate business functions and act as a bridge between various interdependent projects/workstreams to ensure that activities are planned, delivered and completed effectively.
Strong communication skills and demonstrable experience of operations are essential for this role.

**Person specification**:

- Excellent oral and written skills including the ability to communicate detailed information succinctly and clearly.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills and an ability to work collaboratively, build consensus and influence outcomes, as well as excellent oral and written communication skills and attention to detail.
- Strong interpersonal, stakeholder and communication skills, including the ability to work confidently with diverse groups of senior stakeholders and challenge where necessary.
- Ability to build collaborative and trusted working relationships with a variety of internal partners.
- Track record of demonstrating resilience and flexibility under pressure with the ability to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances and balance competing demands whilst remaining focused on delivering high quality outputs.
- Ability to draw on expertise into key activities and escalate issues where appropriate.
- Calm working and making effective decisions under pressure with ability to deliver at pace and comfortable navigating through ambiguity.
- Strong organisational and management skills.
- Strong stakeholder skills, including the ability to work confidently with diverse groups of senior stakeholders and challenge where necessary.
- Be a self-starter who can deliver at pace across multiple responsibilities, with strong organisational skills to ensure there is focused delivery across a complex brief. - Ability to manage different workstreams with interdependencies, including delivering outcomes through others.- Experience of collaborating and forming effective partnerships within teams and across organisations.
- Communicate in a straightforward, honest and engaging manner, choosing appropriate styles to maximise understanding and impact
- Is interested in the local government sector in the broad sense, passionate about ensuring good outcomes for the current and future sector and partners, and eager to help drive DLUHC’s contribution to delivering Levelling Up.
- Ability to work with stakeholders to make the connection between policy and the real-wor

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