Senior Strategic/policy Lead

2 weeks ago

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

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

- 275596**Salary**:

- £49,697**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Local Government and Communities including Integration**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

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

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Leeds, Manchester, 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. 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 a number of G7 roles, across a broad range of policy teams and functions. These include Sponsorship & Accountability, Local Government Outcomes, and Engagement and communications.

**Job description**:**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-world situation, developing detailed targeted solutions to demonstrate impact.

**Desirable**
- Experience of working on high profile and fast paced issues, preferably in the local government space.
- Good knowledge and demonstrable understanding of the Local Government sector.
- Strong grasp of the data and digital environment.
- Familiarity with consultation and legislation.

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

- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours.**We are for everyone**

**We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.**

We are for everyone

DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.

Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors.
- The assessor won’t be reading your answers sequentially.
- Do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.
- If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on)

**At sift, we will be assessing**

Making Effective Decisions (Lead Behaviour)

Seeing the big picture

Communicating and Influencing

Delivering at Pace

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