Strategy and Communications Adviser (i.AI)
| Posting date: | 13 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,169 to £50,062 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 June 2025 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 405049/1 |
Summary
Government must seize the opportunity of AI to drive outcomes in the public interest. This is of critical importance now. Government needs innovation and must not sleep on the opportunity presented by AI to drive better services for taxpayers and citizens.
In November 2023, the creation of the incubator for AI (i.AI) was announced, and following early successes, the team was expanded in March 2024. Our mission is to harness the opportunity of AI to improve lives, drive growth, and deliver better public services. This is an AI product team that focuses on delivery of technical solutions to public service challenges, responding to ministerial steers about priorities and driving impact out into departments from the centre.
i.AI delivers high impact products and is mission-led, delivering value and innovation within government. We are able to move fast and build things, and are set up specifically to pivot quickly towards priority use cases, and re-use technologies for future impact.
You can see more about our work on ai.gov.uk and on LinkedIn. We work in the open and our code can be found here: https://github.com/i-dot-ai
The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI) will be moving to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to form part of the new digital centre of government. This will happen on 1st June 2025. If offered the position, you will be on-boarded directly into DSIT. If shortlisted, the hiring panel will be happy to answer any questions you might have. You're also welcome to reach out to us at i-dot-ai-recruitment@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Our team is based across Bristol, Manchester and London, and we work in a hybrid manner as default. A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance. We will consider part-time and flexible working arrangements - we encourage you to discuss your needs with the hiring manager if you are offered the role.
About the role
The Strategy Team sits at the heart of the Incubator for AI (i.AI), helping to make sure that the work of the team is prioritised to meet the needs of government and Ministers, and that the team communicates effectively with stakeholders and the world.
This will be a dynamic brief, in one of the most exciting areas of government, with significant backing from the Secretary of State and the Prime Minister.
The successful candidate will lead communications with Ministers, Private Offices, the Secretary of State’s Delivery Unit and other key stakeholders across government. They will work within a small team to plug the work of a group of expert technologists into the government machine and deliver AI for public good.
Information session
To give you an idea of working in i.AI and to answer any questions you might have, we encourage you to attend our information session on Wednesday 04 June, 16:00 - 17:00. You can join the session using this link: meet.google.com/zvp-ujsh-mqe
Role Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain excellent working relationships across government, including with private offices, the delivery unit and other government departments.
- Provide thought leadership on public sector adoption of AI, growing the profile or the work of the incubator, by hosting international delegations, delivering presentations to teams across government and industry and representing the team at external events.
- Contribute to delivery in the team, working closely with delivery managers to ensure that technical product teams understand ministerial and external expectations of the work and drafting submissions to Ministers when they can help unlock progress.
- Provide civil service gold standard level operations for core processes such as briefings, FOIs and so on to meet high ministerial, parliamentary and public interest in the work.
- Ultimately, this is a thrilling and growing team. We are looking for a post-holder who wants to work in a high-profile, fast moving area, with a can-do, challenger mindset.
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