Senior Strategy and Policy Advisor

4 weeks ago

Coventry, United Kingdom Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education Full time

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

- 276100**Salary**:

- £51,459- National - £51,459. London - £55,293**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

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

- 18 months**Business area**:

- IFATE - Policy and New Concepts**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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Location
- Coventry, West Midlands (England), CV1 2WT : Darlington, North East England, DL1 5QE : Manchester, North West England, M1 2WD : City of Westminster, London (region), SW1P 3BTAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education is working to transform the skills landscape by improving access to high quality apprenticeships and technical education. You will be part of an organisation that works to help people of all ages and backgrounds have the opportunity to maximise their potential, contribute to improving social mobility and the UK’s productivity.

We aim to create a great place to work by offering:

- An environment with flexible working options
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- An employer pension contribution of up to 27%
- A generous annual leave allowance up to 30 days after 5 years of service
- A wide variety of staff support networks including access to a Wellbeing Network, BAME Network, and a Diversity and Inclusion Network.

**Job description**:
As a Senior Strategy and Policy Advisor you will homed in the IfATE strategy team but will also undertake work for our policy function. The main focus of the role will be providing policy input to the delivery of IfATE's environmental and climate change strategy. You will also work on some of the key strategic and policy issues that affect the apprenticeship and technical education system. To deliver successfully you will need to work with colleagues across IfATE to develop ideas into actions to deliver our strategy.

As someone working at the forefront of developments, you will need to be comfortable dealing with ambiguity and changing priorities and have a good understanding of our remit, operational functions, and be able to build and maintain strong networks.

**Responsibilities**
- Build relationships with key stakeholders to communicate and promote our environmental and climate change strategy
- Provide our point of contact on the environmental and climate change strategy for other government departments, including supporting our CEO’s engagement with the Ministerial Green Jobs Delivery Group
- Track, monitor, and report against the delivery of our climate environmental and climate change strategy
- Provide policy input to the redevelopment of the IfATE occupational maps, so that they provide a clear point of access to environmental and climate change apprenticeships and technical education products.
- Review and refine IfATE’s process for classifying occupations and apprenticeship and technical education products that contribute to the country achieving its environmental and climate change goals, taking account of the developing ONS system of classification.
- Work with our communications and digital function to develop and maintain our external and internal presentation of our environmental and climate change work, including our web presence.
- Actively maintain and develop IfATE’s portfolio of core system policies, such as competence and level descriptors, ensuring policy is optimised to meet the needs of the programme.
- Identifying and developing options for changes in policy to respond to changes in need or changes to the use of existing apprenticeship and technical education products.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**
- Experience of leading multiple pieces of work with (potentially) conflicting levels of priority and making sound decisions on prioritisation
- Experience of influencing and advising senior leaders with regards to developing and implementing strategic plans and policy.
- Experience of providing briefing and advice to senior leaders, giving clear advice on complex issues
- Experience of successfully building and maintaining excellent, productive networks, and providing considerate challenge to assumptions where they exist
- Experience of quickly learning about new, and potentially complex, areas of work and building an understanding of how they fit either other linked work strands or projects.

**Desirable Criteria**
- Experience of project management
- Experience of working within the apprenticeship and technical education system

Working flexibly is important to the success of the IfATE, and while you will have specific responsibilities as set out above, you will be part of a ‘one team’ approach and may be asked to be involved in a range of other activities. As new areas of work progress, you may be asked to move between teams

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