Policy Advisor

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

- 305004**Salary**:

- £30,792-
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Housing Markets and Strategy**Type of role**:

- Policy**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, Darlington, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is responsible for some of the most high-profile issues across Government, including ensuring everyone has access to a safe, secure and affordable home; regenerating towns and high streets; and supporting local government to deliver vital services.

The Housing, Markets & Strategy Directorate sits at the heart of the department’s Regeneration, Housing and Planning Group. The Directorate is responsible for some of the most high-profile issues across Government, including delivering the homes the country needs. It is a welcoming and supportive place to work - we pride ourselves on our strong networks, our focus on fostering talent and our outward-facing approach.

We are recruiting a Policy Advisor to join the Housing Supply and Markets Division to support our work delivering the Government’s housing supply strategy, including our ambition to deliver 300,000 homes a year in England and wider work to ensure we have a diverse and competitive housebuilding market that works for everyone.

**Job description**:
We are recruiting an HEO to a fast-paced and rewarding role where you will play a key role in supporting Ministers’ objectives on housing supply and the housebuilding market.

The postholder will:

- Support Ministers and senior officials by drafting high-quality advice and briefings on the government’s housing supply strategy.
- Contribute to the development and design of the Government’s housing supply work, developing and assessing the options, and reach decisions on key policy questions.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues across the department, including private office, analysts and relevant policy leads.
- Gather and analyse data, evidence and stakeholder insight to understand opportunities and challenges for increasing housing supply.

**Person specification**:

- Excellent ability to get up to speed quickly on diverse policy areas
- Ability to work at pace amidst ambiguity
- Strong analytical skills, including ability to use data and evidence to understand what drives a problem and to develop solutions
- Resilience and calmness under pressure when dealing with changing priorities and fast-moving areas of work
- Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex issues and options in a clear, succinct and evidenced way
- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships and confident working directly with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders

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

- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Seeing the Big Picture

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £30,792, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £8,313 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 with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Strengths.**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**

DLUHC want to bring in and bring on a diverse workforce at all levels.

Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors.
- that the assessor won’t be reading your answers sequentially.
- do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.

If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on)

**At sift, we will be assessing**:
Behaviour (Lead Behaviour): Making Effective Decisions

Behaviour: Communicatign and influencing

Behaviour: Delivering at Pace

There is a 250 word limit per question.

The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of:
Behaviours: Making Effective Decisions, Communicating and influencing, Delivering at Pace and Seeing the big