Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity to drive delivery of the Chancellor's priorities and shape the government's approach to the growth mission, which involves fascinating policy areas with a real impact on the UK economy? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
About the Team
The Growth Delivery Unit (GDU) is a new team that supports the Chancellor's goal of boosting the growth of the UK economy. We combine various skills to monitor policy progress, identify and overcome barriers to delivery, and ensure real-world outcomes. This role is part of our effort to establish the GDU permanently across both our London and Darlington offices.
We are a friendly team with a can-do attitude. Our work can be fast paced but we work flexibly to support each other. We offer lots of development support to help you thrive. Diversity and team wellbeing are very important to us. Our work is relatable and interesting because we are passionate about addressing priority issues that are often in the news and have tangible impacts.
About the Job
In this role, you will:
- Assist and lead in gathering information across government to monitor project delivery for the Range E/Grade 7 line manager. This includes collating weekly updates on the progress of top priority growth projects and policies, and improving and automating the process with the analysis and data science branch.
- Building and managing relationships across government to support this process and wider collaboration.
- Understand policies, projects, growth mission, and drivers; communicate effectively; identify important issues; identify risks and blockers.
- Working with colleagues across government to come up with effective and creative solutions to problems and barriers to delivery.
- Assist Range E/ Grade 7 line manager in effectively communicating delivery updates and proposed solutions to senior officials, special advisors, and ministers, including the Chancellor.
- Work with the analysis and data science branch to present information through innovative products like project dashboards.
- Help prepare for weekly senior meetings by drafting speaking notes, annotated agendas, and briefing notes. Also, produce a weekly email to increase the team's profile and support team leaders in communicating GDU's role and responsibilities.
- Contributing to team culture and wellbeing - taking an active responsibility for the team's knowledge management and supporting the induction of new team members.
- As the Growth Delivery Unit and its work advance, the role may expand with additional tasks. Prospective applicants should be enthusiastic about influencing the development of the position while collaborating with their line manager and leadership team.
This new role offers the chance to influence the Chancellor's priorities and shape the government's growth mission. You will work with collaborators from various fields both inside and outside of government and use strong coordination skills to achieve high-quality results in a dynamic environment.
The successful candidate will collaborate with colleagues from various departments, external partners, and customers. They will have opportunities to influence senior officials, special advisers, and ministers. Previous experience with civil servants or ministers is not required, but the ability to work collaboratively is essential. This role offers insights into growth-related policies and mission-led government, as well as effective policy implementation.
About You
The ideal candidate can effectively manage a diverse workload, produce high-quality work in a fast-paced and unpredictable setting, and establish and maintain extensive professional networks. They will also excel in collaborative problem-solving, quickly grasping various policy and project areas, and identifying strategic points and systemic issues from a wealth of information.
Some of the Benefits our people love!
- Our benefits include 25 days of annual leave (30 after 5 years), 8 public holidays, and the King's birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). We also have a flexitime system, providing up to 2 additional days off monthly.
- Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
- Generous parental and adoption leave packages
- Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28.97%
- Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
- A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity
For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.
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