Policy Advisors
| Posting date: | 22 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £42,614 to £49,906 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £42,614 - £45,081 London: £48,468 - £49,906. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 June 2025 |
| Location: | S3 7UF |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 404278/2 |
Summary
We’re hiring Policy Advisors into Department for Work and Pensions, the UK’s largest government department.
You’ll join our brilliant Policy Group team. We help bring about social change by translating Ministers' ambitions and decisions on the labour market, delivering and protecting the welfare system, child poverty and pensions into practical policies and services.
It’s work with real-world impact. Our policy supports solutions and services that everyone in the UK will interact with, often at important and vulnerable times in their lives.
We are looking for people with a range of backgrounds, all sorts of real-life experience and have a real passion and ability to make a difference.
You don’t need a policy background, but you need the skills to become an expert Policy Advisor. We are looking for people that can demonstrate they have keen attention to detail, have strong verbal and written communication skills, analytical skills, and the ability to make strategic decisions.
As a Policy Advisor, you will need to be flexible and confident in analysing different types of information, communicating in different ways to suit the audience, and understanding people’s varied perspectives. Being an SEO in Policy Group means working with and delivering through others, building strong and effective relationships across your team and the wider department, with other government departments and across a wider stakeholder community.
You will own a particular policy area and will be developing policy that is based on qualitative and quantitative evidence and working with a range of internal and external experts. You’ll develop written policy advice and guidance to colleagues for Ministers and their private offices and Other Government Departments including Number 10.
You will quickly build relationships with key stakeholders and grow your knowledge of strategy for your area and develop political awareness and understanding of legislative changes that will impact your work.
The work we do supports citizens, Ministers, government, and parliament.
You will work alongside a highly collaborative and established community of policy experts, operational teams and external stakeholders. Together we translate legislation into workable policy by collaborating with a broad spectrum of stakeholders to draft change and manage associated risk, ensuring the best outcomes for UK citizens.
Regardless of where you work in Policy Group you can expect to be involved in:
- Owning a policy area, with agency over how you plan and organise your area of work.
- Working across organisational boundaries, and with key partners, to deliver outcomes.
- Problem solving to achieve outcomes for citizens, working out ways to approach a new problem and develop strategy for delivery or improvement.
- Policy development as well as the management of the wider division and strategic management of Policy Group.
- Advising on decisions affecting direction and delivery, assessing risk, and advising on mitigation, including assessing the consequences of any proposed changes.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.
We particularly welcome people from ethnic minority backgrounds applying as they are under-represented groups in DWP; and applications from people able to work from our Leeds and Sheffield hubs.
To understand more about DWP and Policy Group – and full information on applying for this vacancy - you must read the attached Candidate Pack.
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