Senior Strategy Advisor

Job summary

We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities.

We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities. �

Do you have strong communication skills and can adapt to your audience?

Can you see the big picture and think strategically when making decisions?

Have you got good organisational and project management skills?

If so, we have an exciting role in a high-profile area, where you will have the opportunity to drive the strategic vision of the Department�s work to decarbonise the aviation sector, and we would love you to apply

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic, capable, and credible individual who can provide strategic leadership across our Jet Zero Programme (achieving net zero aviation by 2050). This role is rewarding and diverse and will suit motivated team players who are passionate about environmental issues and able to quickly get to grips complex policy and technical issues, while building effective working relationships across government, academia, and industry.

The role sits within the Aviation Decarbonisation Division working on a broad portfolio of exciting and important areas to ensure the aviation sector plays its part in the UK reaching our net zero commitments and will require working with other teams in DfT, and other government departments including the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero and the Department for Business and Trade.

You will be working on a policy area that is a key priority for the Government with growing public interest and high expectations. You will build expertise in green aviation policies, climate change science and policy, the wider aviation sector, technology and innovation, and will have the opportunity to engage and influence a variety of stakeholders across the sector, wider industry and government.

Responsibilities

Developing a strategic understanding and oversight of the �Jet Zero� approach, and the various policies underpinning it, to support and challenge teams across Government in the delivery of key milestones. You will need to use your initiative to spot cross-cutting risks to strategic delivery and devise new and innovative solutions to keep UK aviation on track to achieving net zero aviation by 2050.Developing and embedding a monitoring and evaluation framework for the Jet Zero Strategy, including by building exceptional working relationships with policy teams across the Department and Government, developing expertise across the aviation decarbonisation portfolio, and gaining a detailed understanding of inter-dependencies required to achieve net zero aviation by 2050.Leading on Jet Zero programme governance to ensure implementation of net zero aviation by 2050 remains on track and maintain buy-in from key stakeholders in the DfT and across Government.�Ensuring aviation decarbonisation policy and progress is accurately reflected in cross-transport and cross-economy net zero targets and reporting.Briefing Ministers and Senior Civil Servants, drafting submissions and correspondence. Working within a fast-paced policy team you may be required to pick up new areas during busy periods.

For more information, please see the attached Role Profile.

Person specification

To thrive in this role, you will have good organisation and project management skills, teamed with the ability to provide strategic oversight to a programme.You are someone that has good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to adapt your delivery to suit a wide variety of audiences, maximising both impact and understanding of complex policy matters.You are someone who can gain rapport quickly with others as you look to build effective working relationships both inside and outside government.You are someone who works well both autonomously and as part of a team to ensure that you deliver departmental objectives.

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.�

The role will require occasional travel to other DfT locations.

Behaviours

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

Seeing the Big PictureMaking Effective DecisionsCommunicating and InfluencingWorking Together

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

Seeing the Big PictureMaking Effective Decisions

Technical skills

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

1. Strategy Policy Context and Purpose Level 1: Developing Define the sought impacts and outcomes of a policy.2. Democracy Working with Ministers Level 1: Developing Deliver effective internal communication. Write for different audiences and purposes, including scrutiny.

Benefits

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.�

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