Strategy Advisor

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

- 324288**Salary**:

- £37,295 - £44,724- National: £37,295 - £41,425, London: £40,262 - £44,724 For details of our pay on appointment policy, please see below under the heading ‘Salary’.- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DEFRA - Strategy - Strategy**Type of role**:

- Strategy**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
- Bristol, London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, YorkAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the UK government department responsible for safeguarding our natural environment, supporting our world-leading food and farming industry, and sustaining a thriving rural economy. Our broad remit means we play a major role in people's day-to-day life, from the food we eat, and the air we breathe, to the water we drink.
- Strategy Directorate_

Strategy is a fast-paced, dynamic, and challenging environment. Our purpose is to give a high quality and timely service to Ministers and the Permanent Secretary, and to ensure that Defra group is able to achieve the strategic objectives we set out in our Business Plan.

We work in support of Defra’s strategic objectives, look at how we can join up with other initiatives across the organisation to get things done, support each other to deliver excellent work, help Defra to make good decisions and we identify and unblock barriers to change.
- Encouraging diverse applicants_
- Blended Working_

**Job description**:
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Strategy Unit, a face paced and senior facing team which sits at the centre of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

It is our role to develop the department’s strategy and make sure we are providing the best possible advice to ministers on a range of important policy and delivery issues. We help the Department make better and more coordinated decisions, plan for the long-term, and achieve its aims across Whitehall.

The team is currently undertaking a variety of projects to deliver this ambition, including:

- Oversight and delivery of key strategic projects across the Department - identifying the issues, finding solutions, securing agreement, delivering those on the ground and sharing learning more widely
- Establishing coherence across the department - where possible bringing together colleagues to resolve trade-offs and interdependencies
- Influencing central government - building relationships to represent Defra priorities and influence cross-government strategies.
- Horizon scanning - developing a model for to support the department in designing/adapting its key delivery activities and in supporting organisational design decisions

Developing the strategy profession, and upskilling our strategy cohort, in Defra

**Strategy Advisor role**

We are seeking a Strategy Advisor to work within the newly formed Strategy Unit, based in the central Strategy and Delivery Division.

You will work with a Grade 7 Strategy Lead and support the delivery of high-impact strategy projects which enable the Department to achieve its strategic outcomes and improve its effectiveness.

This role would suit someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, balancing competing priorities and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders on complex and wide-ranging issues.

**Person specification**:
**Person specification**
- Have strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Have strong organisational and effective decision-making skills
- Display high levels of judgment on a broad range of issues, often dealing with varied and sensitive matters
- Be able to work flexibly at pace, managing several competing deadlines and rapidly changing priorities at short notice and to very short timescales
- Be prepared to challenge the status quo and push through new ideas and thinking
- Be able to work on their own initiative

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

- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £37,295, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs contributes £10,069 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.A career in the Civil Service is like no other. If you’re looking to join a world class team and develop your career with us, then the Civil Service is the place for you You might be wondering, “what’s in it for me”? Take a look below at some of the benefits available to you as a civil servant in Defra.

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