Senior Policy Adviser

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

- 380954**Salary**:

- £48,720 - £52,130**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HO - STARS**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Compressed hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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**Job summary**:
The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.

The Science, Technology, Research and Analysis (STAR) Group sits at the heart of the Home Office. The group ensures the best evidence and analysis are used to address the strategic issues facing the department. We also provide the science, technology, data, and international insights and collaboration capabilities to drive delivery.

The Home Office Data and Identity Directorate is at the heart of the Government’s data and technology policy development. It provides advice across the Home Office, law enforcement and the intelligence agencies on complex data use and new technologies such as facial recognition and Artificial Intelligence. These roles are a great opportunity for individuals wanting to be at the forefront of policy making in a technical and rapidly advancing area. The directorate works flexibly across several locations and embraces a culture of smarter working, inclusivity and flexibility and has a strong learning and development offer.

**Job description**:
We have two Senior Policy Advisor roles available in the Data and Identity Directorate in the AI Harms Mitigation Policy Co-ordination Team.

AI Harms Mitigation Policy Co-ordination:
The Data & Identity Directorate brings together cross-cutting departmental interests in AI. The roles in the AI Harms Mitigation team focus on preventing AI being misused by malicious actors for the purpose of criminal harm such as terrorism, fraud, child sexual abuse material, election disinformation and national security threats. You will do this through working with policy leads across the department, with other government departments (particularly DSIT), operational partners and other official and regulatory bodies. This will involve co-ordinating and creating policy on industry and international engagement, legislation, regulation, working with academic and technical experts and the AI Safety Institute.

These roles offer a great opportunity for individuals wanting to work at the ‘frontier’ of AI, ensuring innovative usage can continue while addressing its impacts in order to mitigate against harms. The roles will provide you with space to develop advanced leadership skills, governance and senior stakeholder management skills, creating and interpreting legislation and delivering effective policy advice.

The directorate also delivers policy and co-ordinates work across a range of complex data and technology areas. Applicants for this role may also be offered roles across the broader directorate if they arise.

**Work pattern**

Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. However, compressed hours are available.

**Key responsibilities**
- Lead on key deliverables, including drafting briefings, legislation and other policy initiatives.
- Providing advice to ministers and working across government to engage, develop and deliver on key priorities.
- Building working level relationships with government and external stakeholders.
- Maintaining core briefs and press lines, ensuring they are up to date across the unit, and responding to correspondence and requests for contributions for speeches, briefings, international statements, and other documents relating to work within the policy area.

Please note that this list of responsibilities is not exhaustive, and the post holder will need to be flexible in light of changing ministerial priorities.

**Person specification**:
**Essential criteria**
- Experience of working in policy or equivalent.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills with an ability to quickly build relationships, work collaboratively, influence and negotiate effectively with experts across the department.
- Strong communication skills, with an ability to grasp legal, analytical and technical issues accurately, work at pace and produce high quality written work and presentations for a range of audiences.
- Experience working on legislation.
- Flexibility and self-motivation, given the high-profile nature of the work and adaptability to meet new and often challenging demands.
- Experience in gathering and interpreting information quickly and coherently to take decisions under pressure and on own initiative.

**Desirable criteria**
- Experience of working on or analysis of Government consultations.
- Experience of working with industry and/or international stakeholders - particularly in a technology context.

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