Private Office: Private Secretary to the Secretary of State
| Posting date: | 24 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £61,089 to £71,675 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Effective from 1 July 2024 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2025 |
| Location: | SW1H 9NA |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 401955/1 |
Summary
The Department for Work and Pensions is responsible for social security, labour market, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, we administer the State Pension and a range of working age, disability, and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. What we do matters to millions of people every day.
Private Office is crucial to providing effective support and advice to Ministers and Special Advisers across all aspects of Departmental business, acting as the key interface between the Department and Ministers to deliver DWP’s critical agenda.
The Private Office is a high-performing, dynamic, supportive and inclusive team. This is a demanding but rewarding role for someone interested in working closely with Ministers, Special Advisers and senior officials.
This post reports to the Deputy Principal Private Secretary.
In this role you will:
- Advise and work directly with the Secretary of State, her Special Advisers and the wider Ministerial Team to support them in delivering their priorities
- Work with senior stakeholders across the Department, including policy, the communications directorate and operations, as well as across Whitehall, to provide the Ministerial Team with high quality and timely advice
- Support the Secretary of State in a wide range of internal and Cross-Government meetings and external engagements
- Be an active member of the Private Office Senior Management Team
We offer successful candidates:
The opportunity to work closely with the Secretary of State, Special Advisers and senior officials
- An exciting, fast-paced and challenging work environment that involves dealing with complex policy and operational issues
- The chance to be part of a supportive team with plenty of opportunities to learn and develop new skills
- The opportunity to broaden understanding of DWP policy, parliamentary business and cross-government functions
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