Maritime Delivery Unit - Project Advisor
| Posting date: | 15 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £42,848 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 August 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 421006/1 |
Summary
Would you relish the chance to add value to our priority project and policies, to be asked to quickly understand key issues and shape the way forward?
If so, we'd love to hear from you!
The Maritime Delivery Unit (MDU) tackles urgent and high-profile challenges across the Maritime directorate. The team will take on issues not addressed through business-as-usual work and be a deployable resource to deal with emerging political, directorate or departmental priorities.
The work of the MDU is guided by the issues that Ministers, our DG and Director are concerned about but cannot be delivered by business as usual (BAU) teams. We deliver short term (3-6 months) interventions to help BAU teams deliver effectively.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
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While the exact nature of the work depends on the project requiring our support, some of the work could include:
- Early discovery projects
- Early development of new policies
- Review of existing policy/legislation
- Short-term primary or secondary legislation projects including policy options, legal instructions
- Business case development
- Developing Funding schemes
- Surge support for for large and high-profile events
You will be comfortable working with ambiguity and across a number of projects. You will have experience of delivering workstreams in a dynamic environment with many stakeholders. You will have, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and be able to communicate complex ideas clearly.
You will support the G7 MDU Project Lead in delivering priority projects. This could include collating inputs for a new policy area, or helping define legislation in a separate policy area. Other activities could include:
- Working closely with the Programme Team and G7 MDU Project Lead on project set-up, completion of project initiation documents, inputs and updates to plans, gathering information to inform evaluation and handover.
- Leading on key deliverables for the project, scoping and delivering policy options, stakeholder mapping, and briefing seniors and Ministers. These will address complicated policy and delivery challenges.
- Establishing relationships and networks with a wide range of stakeholders, internal and external, and arranging meetings and opportunities for discussion.
- Continually developing MDU capability by offering support across the team and to other divisions to upskill and learn new ways of doing things.
- Working collaboratively with the business-as-usual teams you will be supporting, ensuring MDU’s involvement leaves a positive legacy.
- Providing feedback and lessons learned on project delivery, contributing to growth and development of MDU to inform best practice.
These will be demanding roles on high-profile issues. You will have experience of quickly understanding new areas of work and rapidly delivering insightful policy products for high profile stakeholders.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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