Senior Strategy Advisor
| Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £40,808 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 350837/1 |
Summary
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!
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.