Policy Advisor

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

- 413997

**Salary**:

- £37,497 - £43,646
- National: Min £37,497 Max £38,373
London: Min £42,958 Max £43,646
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- DWP - Policy

**Type of role**:

- Policy

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 10

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- Leeds, Quarry House, LS2 7UA: London, Caxton House, SW1H 9NA; Sheffield, King’s Court, S3 7UF.
No other locations will be considered. For all locations, travel to other sites may be required.

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
Shaping policy that touches lives across the UK. That's our purpose.

We’re hiring Policy Advisors into Department for Work and Pensions, the UK’s largest government department.

You’ll join our brilliant Policy Group team. We help bring about social change by translating Ministers' ambitions and decisions on the labour market, delivering and protecting the welfare system, child poverty and pensions into practical policies and services.

It’s work with real-world impact. Our policy supports solutions and services that everyone in the UK will interact with, often at important and vulnerable times in their lives.

We are looking for people with a range of backgrounds, all sorts of real-life experience and have a real passion and ability to make a difference.

You don’t need a policy background, but you need the skills to become an expert Policy Advisor. We are looking for people that can demonstrate they have keen attention to detail, have strong verbal and written communication skills, analytical skills, and the ability to make strategic decisions.

**Job description**:
As a Policy Advisor, you will need to be flexible and confident in analysing different types of information, communicating in different ways to suit the audience, and understanding people’s varied perspectives. Being an HEO in Policy Group means working with and delivering through others, building strong and effective relationships across your team and the wider department, with other government departments and across a wider stakeholder community.

You’ll work in a particular policy area. You’ll support the drafting of policy, and provide advice and guidance on policy to colleagues, Ministers, private offices, and sometimes number 10 Downing St.

You’ll quickly build relationships with key stakeholders and grow your knowledge of strategy for your area, and awareness of any legislative changes that will impact your work.

You’ll make sure the strategy for your policy area works in the real world, and that policy is achieving what it’s intended to. The work we do supports citizens, Ministers, government, and parliament.

You’ll work alongside a highly collaborative and established community of policy experts. Together we develop deliverable policy and legislation by collaborating with a broad spectrum of stakeholders to draft change and manage associated risk, ensuring the best outcomes for UK citizens.

Our work is about identifying and solving challenges to make a real world difference. We help front line teams in DWP, across government and external bodies to enact policy and support our diverse customers.

Regardless of where you work in Policy Group you can expect to be involved in:

- Working in a specific policy area, with some agency over how you plan and organise your area of work.
- Working across organisational boundaries, and with key partners, to deliver outcomes.
- Problem solving to achieve outcomes for citizens.
- Supporting a Team Leader by contributing to policy development as well as the management of the wider division and strategic management of Policy Group
- Advising on decisions affecting direction and delivery, assessing risk, and advising on mitigation, including assessing the consequences of any proposed changes.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.

**Person specification**:
**Experience Key Criteria**

**Effective Communication (Lead criteria)**:The ability to present verbal and written communication clearly and concisely, tailoring messages to your audience while avoiding jargon and include diverse perspectives.**

**Data and Analysis**:Be able to quickly understand new areas, analysing and interpreting complex information, and making informed recommendations or ideas based on available or researched information and data while considering any risks and benefits.

**Collaboration**:You will be able to demonstrate how you work with different people or groups to deliver a piece of work or project, while maintaining clear communication on purpose, agreeing responsibiliti