Senior Policy Adviser, Resilience Directorate, EDS (G7)
| Posting date: | 02 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £53,400 to £64,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National = £53400 - £59700, London = £58800 - £64000 |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 14 July 2024 |
| Location: | Glasgow |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 359763/1 |
Summary
The Resilience Directorate sits within the Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat (EDS). It leads the UK Government's efforts to bolster the UK's resilience.The Resilience Directorate is responsible for driving forward the Government’s work on national resilience, managing the resilience system, resilience frameworks and risk processes. It focuses on medium to long-term risks to the UK. It is responsible for identifying and monitoring potential issues and working across government to develop and stress-test mitigations as well as shaping policy to improve long-term resilience. We work with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to drive cross-government work to understand risk, mitigate against it where we can and build national capacity and capabilities to meet any challenge.
The work programme we have pursued to date has been guided by the UK Resilience Framework (2022) and is reflected in the recent implementation update (2023). This is a really exciting and interesting policy area to work in, particularly at the point of the political cycle that we are currently in. As a member of EDS, you will be encouraged and supported to undertake personal learning and development as well as lead work on our corporate workstreams to make it a great place to work.
The Resilience Framework sets out that building our national resilience must be a whole- of-society endeavour. As such, it is imperative that the Resilience Directorate engages extensively with stakeholders right across society to collaborate, influence, seek input, test our thinking, generate action and amplify our messaging.
This post-holder will be responsible for delivering a proactive and deliberate influencing strategy which supports reactive and proactive engagement across our policy agenda, ensuring join-up across the Directorate and with other parts of the Cabinet Office which are active in the resilience space. It also looks to manage the scrutiny of progress in the resilience space, including with parliament and its committees, the National Audit Office and external stakeholders
The post holder will be responsible for developing and delivering against a proactive and targeted strategic influencing programme for the Directorate, designed to support progress against our policy agenda, use our resources in the most impactful way and underline and champion the whole-of-society approach to resilience. This will need to be done in collaboration with teams across the Directorate, Cabinet Office and other Government Departments as needed.
The post holder will be required to look across the resilience agenda and understand it at a strategic level to inform, develop and manage approaches to external scrutiny and activity including: in parliament, for Ministers and Senior Officials, at a working level and by themselves. This will require an ability to get to grips quickly with the detail of policy work being carried out across the Directorate.
Given the central and strategic position of this role in the Directorate, there will also be the need to support other leads in delivery of big milestones including, but not limited to: development and delivery of speeches, the Annual Statement to Parliament and civil service events.