Chief of Staff to The Chief Operating Officer

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

- 267032**Salary**:

- £65,995 - £73,440**Job grade**:

- Grade 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- BEIS - Corporate Services - Corporate Services - DG CS Office**Type of role**:

- Business Management and Improvement
- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

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**Job summary**:
**Our Mission**

At BEIS, we are leading the UK’s recovery from coronavirus and are building a stronger, greener country. Our varied work makes a real difference to people across the UK and internationally. This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of the BEIS team and our exciting mission

We lead on the UK’s commitments to tackle climate change and drive green economic growth. We support businesses to create jobs and increase opportunity in regions across the UK. We also encourage investment and innovation to make the UK a science superpower producing research that will improve lives.

**Our Inclusive Environment**

We are building an inclusive culture to make BEIS a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.

We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension. We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.

**Job description**:
We are looking for a change agent and problem solver who can work closely with the COO as their trusted adviser. You will be responsible for leading on key cross-cutting project work and ensuring where to focus energy and how to best communicate key messages. You will be able to understand complex and sometimes conflicting information, distil, and present this to the COO quickly, to inform decision making and also own and take delegated decisions on behalf of the COO as appropriate.

A key part of this role is to lead the COO's Private office, ensuring the COO and wider Senior Leadership Team is effectively supported. The jobholder will ensure capability and capacity is built within the team, continually improving service delivery for the COO. You will also commission private offices within Corporate Services and across BEIS.

In this role you will work closely with the offices of the Permanent Secretary, other DGs and Corporate Services SLT, to drive forward the COO's agenda, in turn ensuring BEIS is able to meet its priorities. There will also be regular interactions with Ministerial Offices both within BEIS and wider.

The COO office team is structured with the Chief of Staff (G6), Deputy Chief of Staff (G7), a Group Corporate Business Manager (SEO) and Private Secretary (HEO). You will shape and set the Office's priorities to meet demands and flex where required to enable the COO to meet objectives.

**Person specification**:

- Preparing products to define the service offered to the department by Corporate Services group and supporting the COO to calibrate this offer to the funding and resource available to the group so that our people have a balanced and sustainable workload.
- Supporting the Chief Operating Officer to put the Corporate Services group onto a portfolio footing; whereby all of our directorates work towards shared strategic objectives.
- Proactively identifying new and emerging issues in the group that cut-across multiple directorates and then bringing together senior leaders from across our functions to deliver a holistic solution.
- Working in partnership with the BEIS Governance team to plan and deliver a forward plan of items for the consideration of senior boards and committees, in particular BEIS’ Executive Committee and People and Operations Committee. You will play a key role in defining the issues which items should address, and support colleagues to frame options and present solutions so that our committees have rich and constructive conversations about corporate issues.
- Accurately establishing, interpreting and representing the COOs views in discussions, correspondence and at meetings with the ability to influence senior stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment with the COOs priorities/narrative.
- Defining and regularly improving the service that team members in the DG Office offer to the COO. You will be confident working coaching team members to deliver a high-quality private office service, tailored to the needs of the incumbent COO.
- Providing a trouble-shooting function for the COO to own and respond to high profile, complex and sensitive issues which sit outside of any one of our directorates individually. To do this, you