Senior Policy Advisor

2 weeks ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Department for Transport Full time

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

- 325550**Salary**:

- £40,808**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DFT - Roads and Local Group (RLG) - Regions, Cities and Devolution**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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**Benefits**:
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- LeedsAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Would you like to help level up the economy and spread opportunity?

Are you passionate about issues that matter to people living and working in our biggest cities?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Policy Advisor and would love to hear from you

**Job description**:
Our major cities are our key economic drivers and therefore a key focus for The Department for Transport (DfT) investment and inventions. Good city transport not only drives economic growth but is a lever towards Net Zero, Levelling Up and supports pride in place. The newly formed City Region Strategic Partnerships (CRSP) team sits within the Regions, Cities and Devolution Directorate and will work across the DfT - in a way that brings together modal interests and other cross-cutting interests in the Department - in order to create the greater alignment that leads to better transport and economic outcomes.

As the Senior Policy Advisor, you will play a key part supporting the wider team to establish, embed, and drive forwards the Department’s cross-modal work on transport challenges in large Mayoral Combined Authorities (MCAs) within England. You will be required to work collaboratively with colleagues within your own team, a broad range of Area, modal and policy leads across the Department, Other Government Departments and Arms-Length Bodies.

The role offers a fantastic, challenging and rewarding opportunity to be involved in high-profile policy work for the Department.

**Responsibilities**

**_ You will:_**
- Work with the wider City Region Strategic Partnerships (CRSP) team to establish, embed, and drive forwards the Department’s cross-modal work on transport challenges in large Mayoral Combined Authorities (MCAs) within England.
- Provide structure and coordination to the CRSP team’s various workstreams, ensuring that objectives are achieved and timescales met in a dynamic and complex work environment with multiple priorities.
- Liaise confidently with colleagues across the Department to establish and embed innovative ways of working.
- Work with DfT Area Leads, modal leads, thematic policy leads such as Levelling Up and Devolution, and others, to understand the local transport landscape in MCAs and advise on policy interventions required to achieve desired outcomes in these places.
- Support the CRSP Leads in understanding and helping to prioritise DfT’s interests in MCAs to help drive better decision making and a clearer approach towards them, reflecting DfT’s strategic aims and the wider objectives of HMG.
- Liaise with other Government Departments and arms-length bodies as appropriate to support the team’s work.
- Lead on Ministerial submissions, briefings, and wider papers for senior boards within DfT.
- Work collaboratively across the Regional Partnerships and Delivery Division to support reactive workloads and ensure high quality outcomes.
- Be an ambassador for the new team, helping to create its identity and increase understanding of its role.

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

You will be someone who champions engagement and gains rapport quickly with others to build effective working relationships with internal and external key stakeholders at all levels. You will be a highly motivated, ambitious individual with good organisational skills and experience of effectively prioritising workloads to adapt to changing demands.

You will have excellent interpersonal skills and a confident communicator, be a trusted adviser, with the credibility to influence and challenge effectively to manage expectations.

**Additional Information**

A minimum **60%** 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.

Occasional travel to other DfT offices will be required.

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

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

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

- Level 1 Policy Profession Standards and Descriptors: Strategy 1.1. Policy Context and Purpose.
- Level 1 Policy Profession Standards and Descriptors: Democracy 2.1. Working with Ministers.

**Benefits**:
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantas

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