Cyber and Digital Policy Advisor

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

- 266412**Salary**:

- £37,064-
**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Temporary**Length of employment**:

- 23 Months**Type of role**:

- Digital**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Darlington, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Local Digital team at DLUHC supports councils across England to deliver the local public services of the future - services that meet the needs of citizens and deliver better value for money, based on modern technology and new, collaborative ways of working. We’re building upon the ambition of the Local Digital Declaration - our vision for the future of local public services that has been co-signed by over 280 local councils, sector bodies and Government departments.

The team is an energetic mix of policy advisors, user researchers, content designers, collaboration managers, product managers, cyber security experts and delivery professionals exploring initiatives to help local councils improve their resilience to cyber threats and deliver the digital public services of the future.

Our programme is expanding and we’re looking for a Cyber and Digital Policy Advisor to help shape, communicate and deliver our ambitions.

We work with a range of partners including the National Cyber Security Centre, central government departments, and - most importantly - local councils. You can find out more on our website and blog.

**Job description**:
Working closely with the Cyber Policy and Engagement Lead, you’ll collaborate with stakeholders to help design and deliver key aspects of our cyber programme, with a focus on our work to help set a clear cyber standard for councils in England.

This will include:

- Planning and leading engagement with councils and other government departments
- Building strong relationships across the local government sector and the cyber ecosystem
- Developing options for meeting our aims: exploring challenges, identifying and assessing evidence, analysing issues with advice from experts and stakeholders, and putting forward recommendations
- Keeping up to date with developments across the policy area: building your own understanding of local government and cyber security trends
- Drafting internal advice and contributing to public communications
- Matrix management / project leadership

**Person specification**:
**_ Essential:_**
- A great communicator, skilled at working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary environment with a wide range of partners
- A demonstrated ability to convey complex issues in a clear and accurate way, both verbally and in writing
- Experience of policy development and/or service design or user centred design
- Strong analysis and decision-making skills
- An interest in and enthusiasm for learning about cyber security, cyber threats, and the legislative and policy context

**Desirable**:

- Experience working in/closely with central or local government
- Experience shaping research projects
- Experience with matrix management and working across teams

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

- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
- Communicating and Influencing

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.**We are for everyone**

**We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.**

We are for everyone

**CV and Cover Letter Declaration**

We recruit based on your knowledge and skills, and not background, gender or ethnicity - this is called name blind recruitment.

Please remove references to your:

- name/title
- educational institutions
- age
- gender
- postal address
- phone number
- nationality/immigration status

**At sift, through your CV and covering letter we will be assessing**:
Examples:
Experience

Behaviours:
Please bear in mind the following behaviours when writing your covering letter - Seeing the Big Picture, Making Effective Decisions and Working Together. The Civil Service Behaviours can be found here.

Your covering letter should be no more than 1 page referencing how you meet the criteria set out in the job description.

In full the campaign will test the below Success Profile Elements:
Experience: Yes - Experience questions will be based around the essential skills and criteria as listed in the job descript