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Are you a confident individual who can build strong working relationships with colleagues and a wide range of stakeholders?
Can you communicate clearly, honestly and persuasively to achieve business outcomes?
Do you want to help drive change and provide support on department-wide Union issues?
If so, wed love to hear from you!
Job description
Strengthening and levelling up the Union is a priority for the Government. The Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Team is committed to ensuring the Department delivers for people throughout the United Kingdom; by helping to drive change and through providing support and advice on department-wide Union issues.
The team manages the departments relationship with the Scottish and Welsh Governments and the Northern Ireland Executive and provides advice and strategic direction to the rest of the department on national devolution matters. The devolved administrations are now mature legislatures and are responsible for a wide range of transport powers, so the team has the challenging role of ensuring that the UK Government delivers for the people of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland while respecting the devolution settlements.
To help meet these challenges, the division is also responsible for improving capability and knowledge within the department and ensuring processes and policy development takes account of the social and political drivers which help strengthen the Union.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Supporting a team of 5 10 area leads and policy professionals, based across Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England, to gather intelligence and better understand how best to work collaboratively with the respective devolved administrations.
- Assisting in the identification and maintenance of an extensive and useful network across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, including with the devolved administrations, local authorities and a range of other stakeholders.
- Supporting the building and maintaining of good networks with devolution policy teams in DLUHC, HMT, Cabinet Office, Territorial Offices and Departmental modal leads.
- Gathering data and information which can be analysed for key trends, insights, and issues.
- Providing day to day support to the team by identifying, collecting and collating relevant news stories.
For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.
Person specification
About you:
Excellent organisational skills are required and you will be able to manage and filter workflow as well as organise and prioritise your work to maximise productivity and achieve all deadlines. You will be highly adaptable and flexible, adjusting to the requirements of the role.
We are looking for someone who has exceptional communication skills and can express themselves in a confident and concise manner with colleagues at all levels. You will represent the department both professionally and clearly, ensuring key messages are delivered to both internal and external stakeholders in a timely fashion.
Additional Information:
A minimum 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. DfT workplace attendance expectations were updated in recruitment campaigns on 17 November 2023. Occasional travel to other DfT offices will be required.
You will have the opportunity to travel to stakeholder meetings and team away days where an overnight stay may be necessary. These visits are encouraged but not a requirement of the role.
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When considering applying please look at how your experience relates to the role, and within your CV and Personal Statement please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following:
- Experience of undertaking departmental briefing, correspondence and other written communication.
- Stakeholder engagement and building positive relationships across diverse range of groups both internal and external, including senior leaders.
- Working collaboratively to support policy objectives.
Please fully utilise the 750-word count when completing your personal statement.
The sift is due to take place from Monday 11th December 2023.
Interviews are likely to be held from Monday 8th January 2024.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
- An Interview
This interview will be conducted online via MS Teams. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
Youre encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.
Reasonable Adjustments
As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
Complete the Assistance required section in the Additional requirements page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if youre deaf, a Language Service Professional.
If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
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Further Information
For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.
Pre-employment Checking
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicants details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Oliver Pickard
- Email : oliver.pickard@dft.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
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