Senior Policy Officer

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

- 420519

**Salary**:

- £39,684 - £43,834
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- CO - Civil Service Commission - The Civil Service Commission ensures recruitment, including to the most senior roles, is fair, open and based on merit. The Civil Service Commission also has important roles in relation to the Civil Service Code. We are seeking a motivated individual to j

**Type of role**:

- Policy

**Working pattern**:

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

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

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

**Location**:

- London

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
The Civil Service Commission ensures recruitment, including to the most senior roles, is fair, open and based on merit. The Civil Service Commission also has important roles in relation to the Civil Service Code. We are seeking a motivated individual to join our high-profile organisation.

This is a unique opportunity to engage across government departments, senior civil servants and Civil Service Commissioners. The role involves ensuring adherence to the standards set out in the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 and the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles (2018). You will also promote the values outlined in the Civil Service Code: honesty, integrity, objectivity, and impartiality.

Our team supports the Board of Commissioners, chaired by the Rt. Hon. Baroness Gisela Stuart, First Civil Service Commissioner. We pride ourselves on being an expert, friendly, and impactful team that fosters collaboration and strongly emphasises staff wellbeing and career development.

**Job description**:
This is an important and exciting role within a high-profile, independent non-departmental public body.

Key responsibilities
- Serve as a line manager, empowering and developing an EO policy officer.
- Responsibility for managing the exceptional appointment requests under the Recruitment Principles process and oversight of particularly complex cases.
- Supporting the Policy and Compliance Team in developing policy materials for recruiting organisations and the public.
- Managing the Civil Service Commission’s inbox to ensure expert and timely advice to recruiting organisations across the Civil Service.
- Using excellent communication skills to work with a range of senior stakeholders, including Commissioners and officials in government departments, cultivating relationships where necessary.
- Delivering the Commission new and ambitious training programme on relevant policy areas to recruiting organisations.
- Driving efficiencies and technological developments within the team.
- Proactively leveraging data to inform policy development and decision-making.
- Reporting to the Board of Commissioners on policy and compliance matters.

**Person specification**:
Essential criteria:

- Strong organisational skills; ability to balance multiple competing priorities, ensuring that key customers and stakeholders are kept informed.
- Critical thinking and analytical skills to make judgements based on evidence within a framework of codes and guidance.
- Ability to lead and empower high-performing reports and shape their personal development.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to interact confidently and professionally with a range of stakeholders; at all levels including the most senior.
- Capable of drafting advice for publication, correspondence and briefings; adapting style as required.
- Attention to detail and the ability to maintain, interrogate and report on quantitative and qualitative data.

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

- Managing a Quality Service
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £39,684, Cabinet Office contributes £11,496 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
- Learning and development tailored to your role.
- An environment with flexible working options.
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
- A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and employer contributions of 28.97%.
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

**Things you need to know**:
**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

During the selection process, we'll assess you against the essential criteria within the person specification and the following behaviours:

- Managing a Quality Service
- Changing and improving
- Communicating and Influencing

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