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Open & Transparent Contracting - Policy Advisor (Digital) HEO
| Posting date: | 05 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | £35,400 to £42,250 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National £35,400 - £39,200 London £38,250 - £42,250 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 August 2024 |
| Location: | Glasgow |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 363454/3 |
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 Act (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.
You will be working within a multidisciplinary team to help deliver a policy driven digital and data project at the heart of government.
The successful candidate will:
- Work as part of a team acting to support interaction between digital policy and platform build, supporting the collective sign-off on system functionality.
- Support development of platform infrastructure by ensuring effective engagement with the digital platform teams 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 teams.
- Ensure delivery of effective user testing as an enabler to Learning & Development and Systems programmes.
- Embed transparency by default throughout the realisation of the central platform, across the commercial life cycle 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.
- Undertake data analysis using procurement data to provide data-driven conclusions for senior civil servants and Ministers.