Policy Advisor, Freight Strategy
| Posting date: | 16 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £34,233 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 May 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 400963/1 |
Summary
Are you looking to start your career in policy?
Can you problem solve and find effective solutions by using your innovative thinking?
Do you strong communication skills?
If so, then we would love for you to apply!
Every day, millions of deliveries are made in the UK. Each parcel received at a front door, every product purchased in a shop, and every component delivered to a factory result from the UK's exceptional freight and logistics sector. This sector plays a crucial role in supporting the UK's prosperity, economic growth, health, well-being, and security by ensuring the smooth flow of goods into, out of, and across the country.
The Freight and Borders (FAB) Directorate in the Department for Transport (DfT) is the central point of leadership for maximising impact and facilitating collaboration across the government and with the freight and logistics sector. Its goal is to support the UK’s domestic freight system, current and future border arrangements and the numerous supply chains reliant on the uninterrupted flow of goods and people across UK borders, highlighting the significance of this issue for the UK's economic stability.
Working in our Multimodal Freight Division (MFD), you’ll be part of a fantastic team that works in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, and advocates for the freight and logistics sector. Collaborative work across multi-disciplinary teams is vital, providing opportunities to enhance existing expertise and develop new skills. If you want to be part of a team whose work impacts millions of people’s lives across the country, we want to hear from you.
The objective of MFD is to support the government’s missions through improving the performance of the UK’s domestic freight network as a multimodal system. This means monitoring and understanding the performance of the current network, predicting how it may evolve in the future, and selectively intervening and coordinating interventions to better achieve the government’s desired outcomes. Key objectives for intervention include economic growth and decarbonisation, whilst key forms of intervention include infrastructure, innovation, people and skills, and data and insights.
Key accountabilities of the role include:
- Managing several high-level engagement forums and cultivating critical relationships within the government.
- Coordinating initiatives aimed at creating a more cost-efficient, reliable, resilient, and environmentally sustainable freight and logistics sector.
- Engaging with a diverse range of stakeholders to quickly communicate key information and using various outputs to deliver policy guidance and advice.
- Collaborating with colleagues across the government to achieve shared objectives.
- Maintaining key governance and engagement forums, such as the Freight Steering Group, and providing secretariat functions, administrative support, and early-stage policy development as needed.
For an in-depth insight into the role please refer to the Role Profile.
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