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We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
Are you a passionate policy professional who wants to shape delivery of government’s growing environmental agenda?
Do you enjoy collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders to deliver policy objectives?
Are you able to work with detailed information in a fast-paced environment and deliver against competing deadlines?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
Job description
This is a unique opportunity to play an important role in DfT’s policy work on a high-profile Air Quality legal case as well as developing our strategic approach to Air Quality and wider stakeholder interactions as part of a growing environmental brief.
This newly created SEO role will sit within the Environment and Adaptation Strategy Team (EAST), a division that is striving to reduce transport’s environmental impacts and adapt to our changing climate. EAST is a highly motivated, friendly and high performing team with big ambitions, and you will have scope to make your mark.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Supporting the Head of Environmental Legal Challenge Strategy in delivering our response to Air QualityLegal Challenges, including in the preparation of submissions, witness statements and other High Court documents when required.
- Delivering policy development, advice and briefing to support our response to new statutory Air Quality targets, including leading on engagement with key stakeholders and shaping and delivery of research projects.
- Supporting the division’s wider work on the government’s Environmental Improvement Plan, including development of policy and advice, interactions with internal and external stakeholders such as the Office for Environmental Protection, and briefing and correspondence.
For more information, please see the attached Role Profile.
Person specification
To thrive in this role, you will
- Be resilient and comfortable with working in a fast-paced environment to deliver against competing priorities.
- Possess the ability to build effective working relationships and work collaboratively.
- Be a confident communicator with the credibility to influence and challenge effectively to support policy decision making.
Additional information
A minimum of 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Working Together
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
Benefits
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.
Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport
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How to apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide a CV and a Personal Statement (750 words).
Please tailor your CV to suit the role. For your Personal Statement, please provide detailed evidence of the following:
- Developing and Implementing Policy in a complex area
- Briefing a senior official to communicate a complex issue
The sift is due to take place from week commencing 15th April 2024.
Interviews are likely to be held from week commencing 29th April 2024.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
- An interview
This interview will be conducted online via Teams. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, improving performance, diversity and inclusivity.
For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.
Reasonable Adjustments
As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Document Accessibility
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
This job advert contains links to the DfT Careers website. Our website provides useful guidance and information that can support you during the application process. If you cannot access the information on our website for any reason, please email DRGComms@dft.gov.uk for assistance.
Further Information
For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.
Pre-employment Checking
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
Please be aware the levels of national security clearance are changing which may impact on the level needed for this role by the time of appointment. All efforts will be made to keep candidates informed of any changes and what that will mean in terms of vetting criteria. For more information please See our vetting charter
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website Here
