Open & Transparent Contracting - Policy Advisor (guidance and legislation)
| Posting date: | 10 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £40,850 to £48,243 per year |
| Additional salary information: | London Salary £44,500 - £48,243 | National £40,850 - £44,260 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 May 2024 |
| Location: | Norwich |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 348825/4 |
Summary
Procurement reform is a key component of the Government’s post-EU Exit and economic recovery work programme. Cabinet Office’s Government Commercial Function (GCF) leads for the UK Government on commercial policy, including reforming the UK’s legal framework for public procurement - the Transforming Public Procurement (TPP) Programme. This is an exciting opportunity to take on an important role supporting the senior leadership and wider policy teams, shaping the UK’s future landscape for public sector procurement.
Our team objectives are to:
- Develop and roll-out a comprehensive package of information, tools and engagement events that communicates the benefits and requirements of the Transforming Public Procurement programme to all stakeholder groups (including sector specific strategies).
- Act as intelligent client for Cabinet Office and on behalf of stakeholders for the L&D products, digital change and go-live offer.
- Deliver transparency and digital policy in the Procurement Bill (including primary, secondary legislation and guidance as well as wider government policy on open contracting).
- Design and Implement strategy and monitor Central Government Departments’ readiness for reform to ensure the benefits are realised.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the policy team leading on the delivery of the transparency and digital policy elements of these reforms.
You will
- Lead on developing the team’s guidance offering, working closely with policy leads and wider stakeholders, to ensure that all transparency aspects of the new reforms are clearly and accurately reflected in guidance, tools, learning and development materials and digital products.
- Lead on developing and agreeing the New Burdens Assessment for the Procurement Act
- Support development of legislation and platform infrastructure by ensuring effective engagement with the digital platform team and policy leads, providing effective triage on procurement policy to facilitate delivery of the platform.
- Identify policy gaps and misunderstandings and work with policy topic leads and transparency legislation team to find solutions and details and convey those to the digital team.
- Take forward a key government priority working closely with stakeholders to undertake discovery in order to develop the platform to enable payments to be matched to contracts and supporting the development of legislation to drive this measure.
- Ensure delivery of effective user testing as an enabler to L&D and Systems programmes
- Embed transparency by default throughout the realisation of the central platform, across the commercial lifecycle from planning through procurement, contract award, performance and completion.
- Support implementation of the Open Contracting Data Standard by all contracting authorities so that data across the public sector can be shared and analysed at contract and category level.
- Maintain momentum on the government’s open contracting commitments and support the work of the anti corruption policy lead.
We are looking for someone with great project management and delivery skills. You will have excellent communication skills, experience of policy delivery and the ability to form working relations with a range of stakeholders in and outside of the centre.
This is an excellent opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team to deliver a policy driven digital project at the heart of government.