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NPR Engagement & Local Growth Lead

Job details
Posting date: 20 June 2024
Salary: £51,997 per year
Additional salary information: National salary minimum: £51,997, London salary minimum: £56,844
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 03 July 2024
Location: Leeds
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 357562/2

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.

Are you an engaging leader with excellent collaboration and influencing skills?

Would you relish an opportunity that provides exposure working with senior leaders?

If so, we have a fantastic opportunity to shape the direction of Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) and deliver on its transformational objectives, and we would love to hear from you.

Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) is a major infrastructure project in its early stages of development.

In this role you will lead and develop a multi-layered programme of policy development and engagement with key external and internal partners across the NPR geography. You will shape and deliver our stakeholder engagement policy and build strategic partnerships to develop local growth and regeneration policies.

To be successful in this challenging role, you will bring a depth of policy, project delivery, and collaboration and influencing skills and experience. You will work closely with colleagues to advise Ministers, Members of Parliament, senior officials, and a wide range of internal and external partners.

You will be joining our dynamic, inclusive, and friendly team. We are committed to providing development and learning opportunities to ensure you either gain new skills or strengthen existing skills. Working on this project will offer considerable and unique career opportunities.

If you would like to find out more about what it's like to work at DfT Rail, please click here.

You will lead on the following responsibilities:

  • Building relationships at all levels to ensure the successful delivery of NPR, collaborating with internal teams, delivery partners, other Government Departments and a broad network of external bodies.
  • Leading development and delivery of the approach to stakeholder engagement to ensure a coherent and consistent experience for stakeholders across NPR.
  • Leading and managing stakeholder relationships on day-to-day issues specifically affecting Liverpool to West Yorkshire sections of NPR.
  • Acting as a focal point on communications, correspondence and Q&A pack for the programme.
  • Ensuring the programme benefits from the intelligence and evidence gathered through engagement activities.
  • Developing a cross-cutting local growth and regeneration policy for NPR.
  • Leading the development, launch and response to an NPR wide strategic consultation, and overseeing subsequent route consultations.
  • Leading the preparation of high-quality advice and briefings for senior leaders.
  • Developing policy on third party funding, building on good practice examples from other infrastructure projects.