Expert Advisors (3 roles available)
Department for Work and Pensions
Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 21st October 2024
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Job summary
Are you an experienced leader and an expert in your field? Do you have a passionate about making a difference to the lives of millions of people? this is the role for you.
These roles present a fabulous opportunity to work at the heart of government, advising and supporting Ministers, the Permanent Secretary, and wider leadership team. These are important roles, embedded in key policy teams, helping to develop excellent advice and helping to shape the approach on ministerial priorities. You will be an expert in your field and able to consider how best to shape policy and work across the delivery landscape to ensure successful delivery.
DWP is looking to fill Expert Advisor roles in Policy Group directorate, with separate portfolios, the 3 roles are:
Employment Expert Advisor – focussing on the Government’s priority mission of achieving highest sustained growth in the G7, by reducing the number of people inactive and achieving 80% employment.
Pensions Expert Advisor – focussing on the commitment to undertake on a review of the pensions landscape – a core DWP and HMT priority, reforming workplace pensions and to increase investment from pension funds into UK PLC.
Social Security and Disability Expert Advisor – focussing on the Department’s wide range of social security legislation, including on Fraud and Disability.
Job description
Employment Expert Advisor: Your primary focus will be acting as a trusted adviser to the DWP Secretary of State, managing that critical relationship and supporting the Secretary of State in her delivery of key DWP priorities as set out in the Government’s Missions statement. This requires significant impactful personal leadership working collaboratively with senior officials in DWP, other Government Departments and external delivery partners.
The role will focus on supporting the delivery of a Labour Market White Paper and resulting policy, particularly on the National Jobs and Careers Service and Youth Guarantee. You will offer critical thinking and challenge to the Department’s approach.
Pensions Expert Advisor: The post holder’s primary focus will be acting as a trusted adviser to the DWP Secretary of State, managing that critical relationship and supporting the Secretary of State in her delivery of a key DWP priority as set out in the Government’s Missions statement. This requires significant impactful personal leadership working collaboratively with senior officials in DWP, other Government Departments and external delivery and industry partners.
This role will focus on the Government’s commitment to undertake a critical two-stage review of the UK pensions landscape. The review – a priority for the Ministerial Team and Chancellor – will focus initially on the private and workplace pensions landscape, followed by a review into retirement outcomes more broadly.
Social Security and Disability Expert Advisor: The Social Security and Disability Expert Advisor role is in service of the Government’s social security manifesto commitments; Social Security and Disability – focussing on the Department’s wide range of social security legislation, including Disability.
Your primary focus will be acting as a trusted adviser to the DWP Secretary of State, managing that critical relationship and supporting the Secretary of State in her delivery of a key DWP priority as set out in the Government’s Missions statement. This requires significant impactful personal leadership working collaboratively with senior officials in DWP, other Government Departments and external delivery partners.
This role will focus on social security policy and disability. You will support policy teams with the delivery of a high-profile Health and Disability White Paper. You will offer critical thinking and challenge to the Department’s approach.
Please see the candidate pack attached to this advert to learn more about each role and their responsibilities.
Person specification
Essential Criteria:
- Experience working at a whole system level - with experts and stakeholders at all levels – to develop approaches based on a deep understanding of customers, and the levers to effect positive outcomes.
- Strong evidence of successfully influencing and managing complex senior stakeholder relationships and an ability to build trust-based relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across dispersed multi organisation teams, developing and maintaining effective networks.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to quickly distil large amounts of information from a variety of sources into sound recommendations and communicate complex issues clearly.
- An ability to work independently and proactively, bringing flexibility, professional curiosity, and diverse perspectives into your work.
- Extensive experience of providing visible and collaborative leadership within a complex organisation with a proven ability to build high performing teams – growing confidence and capability, employee engagement, and an inclusive culture.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
Benefits
Alongside your salary, the Department for Work and Pensions contributes 28.97% towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
- Generous annual leave – at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro–rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
- Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
- Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
- Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year’s continuous service.
- Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
- An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.
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Selection process details
To apply for this post, you will need to complete the online application process outlined below no later than 23:55 on Monday 21st October 2024.
A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years;
A personal statement (maximum 1250 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities, and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria in the person specification.
Please see the candidate pack attached to this advert to learn more about DWP and these roles, if you feel you have the right experience, we would encourage you to submit an application. When applying for these roles, you will be required to state a preference of the role you feels best suits your experience.
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As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.
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Job contact :
- Name : DWP Senior Recruitment team
- Email : senior.recruitment@dwp.gov.uk
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- Email : senior.recruitment@dwp.gov.uk