Policy Advisor Investment Security

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

- 384514

**Salary**:

- £38,289
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- DFT - Aviation, Maritime and Security Group (AMS) - Transport Security

**Type of role**:

- Policy
Security

**Working pattern**:

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

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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Location
- London

About the job

**Job summary**:

- Do you have policy and/or security experience, and are keen to develop in a national security role? _
- Do you have strong engagement and communication skills?_
- Would you like to work colleagues across DfT, and with our partners across Whitehall, to help shape strategy and policy in an exciting and rapidly developing area?_

If so, we would love to hear from you

**Job description**:
This role sits within the National Security Division (NSD), part of the Transport Security Directorate (TSD). NSD works across Government and with industry partners to mitigate the current and emerging threats the transport sector faces domestically and internationally.

We are looking for a HEO Policy Advisor to work on the Department’s approach to state threats, and particularly on economic security. We will provide full training in casework under the National Security & Investments Act 2021 (NSIA), which allows Government to block or intervene in transactions which pose a national security risk. This work can have security, economic, and diplomatic sensitivities, and you will represent the Department’s interests across Whitehall, as well as contributing to briefings for ministers and senior officials.

TSD invests significantly in training and developing staff, to prepare you not just for an interesting and challenging job, but also for a rewarding career in national security.

As you will be part of a team that works on emerging threats and hazards, you will be expected to work flexibly and adapt rapidly to changing requirements and priorities across the team, wider Division and Directorate.

**Responsibilities**:

- Oversee FDI casework and support coordination of DfT’s input, including representing DfT at cross-HMG working-level meetings; work with transport sector leads in DfT to gather information and provide responses on FDI cases.
- Support implementation of DfT’s State Threats Strategy by tracking actions and progress against strategy deliverables.
- Build and maintain stakeholder engagement on state threats work across DfT, including briefing and liaison with sector experts across transport modes within DfT.
- Build and maintain relationships across HMG on relevant state threat strategies, ensuring alignment with DfT state threats work.
- Contribute to the team’s implementation of national security measures in the Procurement Act, mitigating supply chain and vendors of concern threat.

For more information, please see the attached Role Profile.

**Person specification**:
**About you**

To thrive in this role you will have experience of policy and/or security, whether gained in the public or private sector. We will also need you to be able to understand and summarise complex information, and be able to highlight key points clearly, identifying risks to support mitigation activity; excellent written briefing skills and the ability to convey information in clear, concise language are key.

**Additional information**

A minimum of 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.

As you will be part of a team that works on emerging threats and hazards, you will be expected to work flexibly and adapt to rapidly changing requirements and priorities across the team, wider Division and Directorate. You will be required to participate in the Department’s response to a security or civil contingencies incident. This may include out of hours working on occasion, but we make every effort to allow for your personal circumstances.

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

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

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- 1. Strategy 1.1. Policy Context and Purpose Level 1: Developing
- 2. Democracy 2.1. Working with Ministers Level 1: Developing

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £38,289, Department for Transport contributes £11,092 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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