Senior Policy Officer

3 weeks ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Full time

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

- 299644**Salary**:

- £37,295 - £44,724- National £37,295 - £41,425, London: £40,262 - £44,724. For details of our pay on appointment policy, please see below under the heading ‘Salary’.- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent
- Fixed Term
- Loan
- Secondment**Length of employment**:

- 12 months**Business area**:

- DEFRA - Multiple Directorates**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

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

- 50Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- Bristol, London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, YorkAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Wednesday 26th July 2023 at 13:30
- Wednesday 9th August 2023 at 13:30

In the Defra group, we deal with a vast range of issues that profoundly impact on people’s lives. We are responsible for England’s environment, our countryside and rural economy, the food and farming sectors and have lead responsibility for protection from a wide range of natural threats and hazards. Your role will be critically important to achieving our vision of 'creating a great place for living’.

**_ Would you like the opportunity develop an overarching knowledge of a wide range of policy topics?_**

As a Senior Policy Officer, you will be part of a team who work with a range of both internal and external stakeholders. You will contribute towards the drafting of policy and strategy. Your ability to contribute isn’t limited by lack of specialist knowledge, we value the importance of an individual’s range of skills.

This means that you may develop specialist expertise and work across a small portfolio area. You will play an active role in shaping and delivering the Defra group’s priorities, working creatively and collaboratively with others to deliver excellent outcomes. You will have the opportunity to develop your own skills and future career.

**Job description**:
Defra’s profile has never been higher; our remit provides the opportunity for real influence. Our policy areas are each split into Directorates, work-streams and projects that combine flexibly to deliver on Ministerial priorities.

Your wider team will likely be made up of both counterparts and senior colleagues, working collaboratively, supporting each other to deliver one project. There is also the potential that you will line manage a small team of Higher Executive Officers (HEOs) and Executive Officers (EOs).

You will be building relationships with a variety of stakeholders. Internally, these could include Directors and Ministers, as well as your counterparts in other teams, whereas externally, this could include industry bodies, non-governmental organisations and UK citizens.

As a Senior Policy Officer, you will be part of a team of experts that is delivering on Defra’s top priorities. No two posts are the same but in broad terms your work will include:

- Understanding a range of different policies and leading on selected policy areas
- Using evidence and expertise from within and outside Government, to help guide decisions about how policies are developed and delivered
- Supporting policy teams to brief Ministers and senior officials
- Planning and prioritising effectively to deliver high quality results to time. In some cases there will be responsibility for a small team of HEOs and EOs_‘_

**Person specification**:
**About You**

For this post you will be assessed on the areas set out below.

**Essential Criteria**

The following experience is essential to these posts:

- A proven track record of communicating confidently and concisely.
- Managing relationships with a range of stakeholders/customers, ideally both internally and externally.
- Planning and prioritising effectively to meet deadlines, to deliver results at pace.
- Working with complex policy areas, identifying the key issues and the significant risks from within them.
- Advocating an innovative approach, seeking opportunities to do things differently or starting from a blank page, and then being responsive to adapt or develop new options as circumstances change.
- Staff management and/or developing skills and capability of teams.
- Ability to quickly respond to changing demands and priorities, with the confidence to take quick decisions without comprising the quality of work.
- Preparation of drafts for a range of audiences and communicate them verbally with confidence.
- Creative problem-solving skills and the ability to propose innovative solutions to challenges.

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

- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
- Seeing the Big Picture

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £37,295, Depar

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