Briefing and Stakeholder Management Lead

☞ Department for Education

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Update day: 01-06-2024

Location: Sheffield Yorkshire and the Humber

Category: Civil / Construction Education / Training Part-time

Industry: Government Public Administration

Job type: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Salary: £36,498 - £40,297 a year

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Reference number

176177

Salary

£36,498 - £40,297

Grade

Senior Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

DFE - Operations Group - Capital

Type of role

Communications / Marketing
Estates
Knowledge and Information Management
Operational Delivery
Policy
Project Delivery

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of posts

1

Location

Manchester M1 2WD, Sheffield S1 2FJ

About the job

Summary

Are you passionate about helping us create the safest and very best learning environments for our children and future generations? If so, this may be the job for you! You will be working in the Capital Efficiency and Capability (CEC) team, within the Capital Directorate. Our directorate supports the delivery of a £23.5 billion high profile government school construction programme, and provides support and challenge to all schools on how they manage and maintain their buildings.

We deliver great new schools with modern teaching environments and support schools to manage existing estates, making a real difference to the lives of children, families and teachers.

The environment where a child learns and develops can make an immense difference to them in reaching their potential and to their wellbeing and sense of self-worth. Our team helps those responsible for the school estate to maintain an environment that is safe, sheltered and pleasant, enabling world-class teaching and learning. The team works with the school sector to ensure estate management is carried out effectively and that academy trusts and local authorities’ get the most out of every inch of their estate and every pound they spend.

We are passionate about outcomes for children and young people, which drives our work. Our professional approach, cross-team support, openness to learning, and value of diversity helps make us a high-performing team.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an outstanding individual to support the next phase of the department’s Capital Advisers Programme. This is a fast-paced, high-profile area of work which is a top policy priority for ministers and the Department for Education (DfE).

About you

This role would suit a high performing, organised and enthusiastic individual who is confident and professional in working with others and able to work flexibly in response to changing priorities and plans.

Job description

You will be joining our team as we develop our collaborative support to the school sector on estate management practice and proactive management of issues and maintenance, including asbestos. This includes Good Estates Management for Schools (GEMS), Managing Asbestos Guidance for Schools (MAGS), and the Capital Advisers Programme (CAP).

CAP is a new programme being launched in the new year, having recently completed a successful pilot phase. It will offer capital advisers the opportunity to help multi-academy trusts and single- academy trusts improve the capability and efficiency of their estate management, to ensure children and others are safe, comfortable and able to achieve the most out of their learning.

Capital advisers are technical building experts who will provide best-practice advice and tailored recommendations, to help trusts to identify and prioritise areas to improve and develop their strategic estate management. CAP builds on existing support available to schools, trusts and responsible bodies, using the existing GEMS guidance as a framework.

Responsibilities

You will lead briefing, comms and engagement for CAP, linking into all works strands in the CEC Team to ensure we’re aligned on vision. You will set written quality standard for capital advisers’ reports issued to trusts. You will own, monitor and report on the programme’s strategic communications plan and stakeholder engagement for a range of policy and operational colleagues across the department. You will need to keep ministers thoroughly briefed as required. You will be working with the G7 team lead and subject matter experts, in an iterative and agile fashion, to quality-control all written products received from our partner commercial contractors who will carry out the work of the capital advisers.

The post holder will:

  • Deliver an excellent service to ministers and senior stakeholders with high-quality briefings, speeches, presentations and advice, including commissioning and co-ordinating input from key stakeholders.
  • Provide expertise in drafting, ensuring briefings, speeches and presentations comply with departmental standards and ministerial preferences
  • Support engagement with department of state functions, the Education Select Committee, National Audit Office and cross-party MPs
  • Develop effective working relationships across the department, and with external stakeholders and our partner contractors, to ensure messaging around the capital advisers programme is consistent, accurate and serves the needs of ministers and users
  • Produce and maintain core brief documents and written content for GOV.UK and other communication channels, reviewing and editing articles for internal and external channels and analysing and reporting on GOV.UK analytics
  • Support the G7 team leader with scaled-up sector engagement over the next 6 to 12 months
  • Establish and ensure the quality standard of capital adviser reports, offering expert advice and guidance on drafting and using the style guide, to ensure our partner contractors produce excellent reports that meet the needs of users.
  • Working with the wider Capability and Efficiency team and teams across Capital Directorate and the sector to improve our evidence base to underpin a robust team strategy.

Essential criteria

Experienced in providing high quality briefing to Ministers and senior officials through collaborative working with others

Confident managing multiple priorities, with good organisational skills’

Excellent written and oral communication skills, including confidence presenting to wider audiences and good attention to detail

Confident engaging positively and constructively with a wide network of stakeholders, negotiating and exercising influence at senior levels

Comfortable working at pace across a wide remit, able to be flexible according to the context and requirements of the role

Desirable criteria

Experience of working in policy is helpful but not essential
Good IT skills and confidence in using SharePoint for knowledge and information management

Desirable criteria will only be assessed in the event of a tie break situation to make an informed decision.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Delivering at Pace
  • Seeing the Big Picture

Benefits

Applicants currently holding a permanent post in the Civil Service should note that, if successful, their salary on appointment would be determined by the Department’s transfer / promotion policies.
As a member of the DfE, you will be entitled to join the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme, which many experts agree is one of the most generous in the UK.

You will have 25 days leave, increasing by 1 day every year to a maximum of 30 days after five years’ service. In addition, all staff receive the Queen’s Birthday privilege holiday and 8 days’ bank and public holidays.
We offer flexible working arrangements, such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.

As an organisation, which exists to support education and lifelong learning, we offer our staff excellent professional development opportunities.
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Deadline: 16-07-2024

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