Strategy Advisor

5 months ago


Swindon, United Kingdom UK Research and Innovation Full time

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

- 302835**Salary**:

- £31,931**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer- D**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- UKRI - Strategy**Type of role**:

- Strategy**Working pattern**:

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

- 2Contents

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- SwindonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
We are recruiting for two Strategy Advisor roles (1 x Research Sustainability Team & 1 x Investment Strategy Team).

The Research Sustainability team is responsible for analysing the resilience of the UK’s research and innovation system. The team provides advice to colleagues across UKRI on options for improving the financial sustainability of the UK research base and considers the relative opportunities and risks of making policy changes or influencing incentives across the system.

**Job description**:
Whilst specific team responsibilities may differ, the purpose of the Strategy Advisor role is to:

- Using evidence, analysis, and insights to develop options and advice on a portfolio of issues, often to rapid timescales, that will inform key decision making and support new strategy development
- Assisting to provide high quality advice to the UKRI CEO, UKRI Board, senior officials and Ministers in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)
- Modelling UKRI’s values and piloting new ways of working to address complex issues that span UKRI councils, policy areas, and/or government departments.

**Strategy Advisor (Research Sustainability) Responsibilities**:
In addition to the above Key Responsibilities, you would be taking forward the Financial Sustainability Team’s communications and engagement plan to influence and inform.
- Align more closely with Government priorities and needs
- This will involve working closely with colleagues in Comms to design and publish materials from the programme.

This role reports to the Head of Sustainability and Engagement.

**Strategy Advisor (Investment Strategy) Responsibilities**:
In addition to the above Key Responsibilities you will be:

- Monitoring progress on how UKRI is delivering against its current spending review priorities across its Place, Talent and Commercialisation functions.
- Building and maintaining an evidence base that demonstrates the impacts of our Place, Commercialisation and Talent investments as part of UKRI’s preparations for the next spending review

This role reports to the Strategy Lead for Talent.

**Person specification**:
Essential
- Time management - excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage own workload, resolve competing demands, and cope with changing priorities in a flexible and proactive way.
- Project management - experience in planning and managing projects and using own initiative to improve administrative processes

**Other Key Information**:
We will hold a reserve list from this recruitment exercise who may be approached about other strategy and policy roles in the group.

Occasional travel to London may be required.

**Benefits**:
We are committed to supporting employees’ development and promote a culture of continuous learning.
- Flexible working arrangements
- An outstanding pension scheme
- 30 days annual leave allowance - not including public holidays
- Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities

At UKRI, we believe that everyone has a right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to be provided with equal opportunities to thrive and succeed in an environment that enables them to do so. We also value diversity of thought and experience within inclusive groups, organisations and the wider community.

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**Selection process details**:
Applicants are required to provide an up-to-date CV and a cover letter outlining their suitability for the role, matched with the criteria. To Apply, click on '' this will re-direct you to the full job description on our External website.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)**Working for the Civil Service**:

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- We recruit by merit on the basis of


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