Briefing and Correspondence Manager
| Posting date: | 17 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £32,603 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 June 2024 |
| Location: | Hastings |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 352583/2 |
Summary
Have you got exceptional written and oral communication skills?
Do you have excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage a small team?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
Do you have an interest and passion to help fight climate change? The Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) is recruiting for a role which provides the opportunity to be involved in the UK’s transition to zero emission vehicles.
OZEV is a cross-government team between the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). OZEV manages a programme to help position the UK at the global forefront of zero emission vehicle development and to prepare the country’s infrastructure for mass market transition. This is an exciting, fast moving policy area that supports the transition to zero emission vehicles, wider governmental priorities of decarbonising road transport and ultimately, contributes to the government’s requirement of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Draft and review high-quality responses and monitor a diverse range of incoming ministerial correspondence and parliamentary questions on OZEV policy areas. Proofread, sign-off, monitor and answer ministerial correspondence and parliamentary questions on OZEV policy areas. Excellent drafting and organisational skills are required to ensure that responses are appropriate, accurate and timely to provide stakeholders with up-to-date information.
- Lead on cross-cutting OZEV briefing for Ministerial and senior official meetings, events, speeches and Parliamentary business.
- Line manage a small team of Executive Officers to motivate and support them with their duties, wellbeing and performance to ensure that individual and team goals are reached.
- Build, develop and maintain a cross-Government network to ensure consistent, accurate and current use of messages OZEV policy to support the department’s wider climate change ambitions.
- Support the R&D team with the development of a potential AI tool. Act as a central contact to supply them with data needed to facilitate the testing of this technology.
For further information, please see the attached Role Profile