Maritime Delivery Unit - Project Lead
| Posting date: | 19 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £54,857 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 August 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 421007/2 |
Summary
Would you relish the chance to add value to new our priority projects 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 large and high-profile events
This is a demanding role, with the MDU Project Lead working on some of the most high-profile issues and challenges the directorate is facing. You will have experience of quickly understanding new areas of work and rapidly delivering insightful policy products.
You will be responsible for leading policy projects, working with stakeholders across the Directorate. This could include scoping new pieces of policy work, reviewing the effectiveness of some of our measures or initiating work on new priorities. You will need to be comfortable taking ownership of this work and working with the senior sponsor to retain their confidence and ensure delivery meets their expectations. This can include:
- Taking ownership of complex and sometimes ill-defined projects and driving them forward
- Diligent approach to project set-up, working closely with the programme team to agree scope of projects, develop a plan, review that plan and gather lessons learned to inform evaluation and handover
- Working autonomously and directly to senior leaders
- Working collaboratively with the business-as-usual teams you will be supporting
- Establishing relationships and networks and securing the confidence of stakeholders and senior leaders
- Delivering results at significant pace
- Producing documents in various formats, which are clear and concise
- Building capability by offering support to other divisions to upskill and learn new ways of doing things
- Line and Task Management of 2x SEO
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
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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