Deputy Director: Strategy and Delivery
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 20 Hydref 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £81,000 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 09 Tachwedd 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Bristol |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 432665/1 |
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1. Strategy Unit. Shaping and driving the department’s strategy. This includes ensuring policy coherence across Defra, in particular its land-based strategies, and acting where needed as a broker to resolve inter-departmental tensions (for example on sequencing and alignment of land-based strategies); as well as picking up and resolving emerging issues. The SU also leads on political change and supports the Permanent Secretary and SoS.
2. Delivery Unit. Leading a multidisciplinary team of policy and analysts working closely with Ministers and SPADS to increase confidence of the delivery of Defra’s top priorities. This includes by: strengthening the department‘s delivery systems and architecture; and improving grip through working with teams across the department to set targets, trajectories and delivery pathways.
3. Leading short-term sprints on high-profile, high-priority and urgent work for ExCo, Ministers and SPADS. These have ranged from policy and analytical sprints (e.g. red teaming exercise of major agricultural reforms; considering the financial health of the flood reinsurance sector) to being more delivery focussed (eg developing dashboards on water quality and major infrastructure; advising on the operating model for a new nature markets’ capability)
4. Making a success of place-based delivery reforms across Defra Group. This includes leading on Defra’s strategic approach to English Devolution and engagement with Mayors. It also includes delivering the ambitious pathfinder programme with Mayoral Combined Authorities and National Parks (a top 15 priority for the Hancock/ Corry implementation). The deliverables for this role are mission critical for the Department and wider Group. The post holder will have significant exposure to and must have confidence in advising and challenging Ministers, SpAds, the Permanent Secretary and ExCo to support effective decision-making.
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