Policy Advisor

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Department for Transport Full time

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

- 325115**Salary**:

- £32,603- £32,603 (National) £36.466 (London)**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DFT - Roads and Local Group (RLG)**Type of role**:

- Planning
- Policy
- Strategy**Working pattern**:

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

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birmingham, Leeds, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Can you collaborate with senior stakeholders and build strong, lasting working relations?

Have you worked to tight deadlines and have excellent time management skills?

Do you have an eye for detail and strive to deliver a quality service?

If so, we’d love to hear from you

**Job description**:
The London Partnerships and Delivery team works across Government with TfL (Transport for London), the GLA (Greater London Authority) and London Boroughs to support the delivery of the Government's priorities for transport in London.

The policy advisor will play a key part in delivering the division’s objectives. You will need to establish collaborative working level relationships with private office, TfL and HMT colleagues as part of the work.

**Responsibilities include but are not limited to**:

- Providing high-quality briefings including ministerial briefings reporting on TfL’s financial position and policy recommendations
- Organising and planning the team’s stakeholder engagement, including performing a ‘secretariat’ function for key meetings with stakeholders and external consultants
- Coordinating the responses to correspondence on high profile issues working collaboratively with internal and external colleagues
- Leading on discrete policy areas and contributing to wider policy development in line with government priorities
- Leading on the communications and parliamentary handling of matters relating to TfL funding, in partnership with private offices and the department’s communications and press teams

For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.

**Person specification**:

- Be agile and flexible with the ability to react quickly to changing requirements
- Deliver at pace and prioritise workload.
- Will be able to work as a team with a wide range of internal and external key stakeholders.
- Communicate clearly verbally and in writing by ensuring communication has a clear purpose and considers people’s individual needs.

**Additional Information**:
A minimum of 40% 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.

This role may require occasional travel to other DfTc offices.

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

- Communicating and Influencing
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing

**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.Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.For your Personal Statement, please provide detailed evidence of the following:

- Producing high quality briefings or pieces of written communications to provide recommendations.
- Building relations with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Working to tight deadlines with competing priorities, under pressure.

For your behaviour example please provide evidence of when you have demonstrated the following behaviour:

- Communicating and Influencing

Your Personal Statement will be limited to 750 words. The behaviour example will be limited to 250 words.

The sift is due to take place from 29th November 2023

Interviews are likely to be held from 13th December 2023.

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.

The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:

- An Interview
- This interview will be conducted online via MS Teams. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview._***

You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.

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