Tiger Team, HEO

Posting date:	15 May 2026
Salary:	£37,922 to £45,259 per year
Additional salary information:	National: £37,922 - £41,992 London: £40,974 - £45,259
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	27 May 2026
Location:	London
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	456938/2

Summary

The Civil Service Strategy Unit (CSSU) is at the heart of the government's agenda for change, aimed at growing the economy and improving people's lives right across the United Kingdom. We are an active part of the Future Civil Service Group (FCS), whose mission is simple: to make it easier for people to get great things done across the civil service and wider public sector. With Government Peoples Group (GPG) colleagues, we aim to improve speed, efficiency and innovation in improving public services, making them joined-up, resilient and effective in meeting the public's needs and expectations.

In CSSU we ensure that priority, cross cutting reform initiatives are developed, prioritised, delivered and scaled. With a direct link to the Civil Service Chief Operating Officer and liaison with Ministers, we have the ability to champion reform issues at the highest levels of government. This is an ambitious role looking at all aspects of the Civil Service, it is focusing on how we can radically improve our people, organisation, and digital use in departments, functions, professions and public bodies. We are a delivery-focused "think-and-do" tank where you can iterate, test, and fail fast, learning lessons on the way to find what truly works. CSSU has been newly reshaped in order to be more agile to the key strategic issues. The Directorate consists of around 50+ staff, located across the UK, who work together to deliver high quality strategic advice.

The role

This is an exciting opportunity for highly motivated and analytical individuals to join the newly formed Policy & Strategy Team within the Civil Service Strategy Unit. Operating akin to an internal 'Strategy House' consultancy or strategic project team in the Civil Service, this team works in agile sprints, rapidly picking up and delivering high-quality strategic advice and policy solutions for critical clients, including Ministers, the Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary, and our Director General.

Working in close collaboration with and supporting Policy & Strategy Advisors (G7s and G6s), you will be instrumental in providing the foundational research and analysis that underpins strategic change across the Civil Service.

Duties Involved:

• Policy and Problem Research & Data Gathering: Conduct thorough research into complex policy and strategic challenges, identifying relevant data sources (qualitative and quantitative) and gathering information from across government and external sources.
• Analytical Policy-Making: Perform initial data analysis, synthesise findings, and contribute to the development of evidence-based insights. This may include preparing charts, graphs, and summary tables.
• Deliverable Contribution: Support the drafting and refinement of high-quality outputs, including briefing papers, strategic options analyses, and presentation decks, ensuring accuracy and clarity.
• Meeting Preparation & Support: Assist in preparing materials for client and stakeholder meetings, including background research, agenda drafting, minute-taking, and workshop hosting.
• Agile Sprint Contribution: Manage assigned tasks and work packages within defined agile sprints, ensuring timely completion and adherence to quality standards. Proactively flag any potential issues or blockers to your line manager.
• Knowledge Management: Contribute to the team's collective knowledge base by organising research materials, documenting findings, and sharing relevant information.
• Process Adherence: Diligently follow the team's 'Strategy House' methodologies and processes to ensure consistency and quality of work.
• Supporting Functional Standards. You will provide stewardship of functional standards.

In addition, the HEO who supports the public bodies and tiger team G7s will have the following additional tasks:

Public Bodies

• Project management of ALB reform: ensuring that the ALB reform programme is on track to meet its deliverables and generating and updating the forward look of ALB reform announcements.
• Policy development and management: Lead a team to conduct thorough research into ALB policy challenges and best practices related to ALBs, identifying and gathering relevant qualitative and quantitative data.
• Briefing & Communication: Lead on the drafting and refinement of high-quality outputs, including briefing papers, reports, and presentations, ensuring accuracy and clarity.
• Meeting & Engagement: Relationship manage stakeholders, leading meetings and engagement activities, including preparing agendas, taking minutes, and tracking actions.
• Knowledge Management: Contribute to the team's knowledge base by organising research materials, documenting findings, and ensuring information is accessible.

Risk & Issue Tracking: Lead on the identification and tracking programme risks and issues, escalating them to senior colleagues as appropriate.

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