We encourage you to look at the candidate pack and additional attachments for further information about BEIS and these roles.

Our Mission:

At BEIS, we are leading the UK’s recovery from coronavirus and are building a stronger, greener country. Our varied work makes a real difference to people across the UK and internationally.

We lead on the UK’s commitments to tackle climate change and drive green economic growth. We support businesses to create jobs and increase opportunity in regions across the UK.

We also encourage investment and innovation to make the UK a science superpower producing research that will improve lives.

Our Inclusive Environment:

We are building an inclusive culture to make BEIS a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.

We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension. We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.

We actively welcome applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusion. We will fully support candidates with a disability or long-term condition who require adjustments in our recruitment process.

Would you like to work at the heart of Government supporting our important climate change agenda?

Are you passionate about shaping strategy, new policy and legislation to help decarbonise the UK’s homes and industry?

Would you like to be instrumental in the plan to roll out low carbon heat across the whole of the UK?

We are currently recruiting a number of Senior Programme and Policy Delivery Advisors for our directorates working on important climate change issues.

We are seeking a diverse range of skills and experience, and welcome those who bring transferrable skills from other fields or sectors.

We are committed to developing our staff through our extensive range of training that is provided through our in-house BEIS Academy that is in partnership with Civil Service Learning.

Responsibilities

While no two days are ever the same, you could find yourself:

– Supporting your colleagues in developing and delivering innovative policy solutions to difficult problems;

– Engaging across Government to ensure join up of activity, developing realistic policy and ensuring leadership;

– Helping a multi-disciplinary team to ensure successful project delivery outcomes with the right capability, capacity, and levels of assurance;

– Working with a diverse range of colleagues to ensure delivery of the project outcomes, working with multi-disciplinary professionals, including analysts, project managers, lawyers, commercial, procurement;

– Looking at complex and varying sources of evidence and data to inform delivery solutions, evaluating throughout the policy project to make changes and to innovate as required;

– Translating government priorities into policy delivery and focus on successful delivery of the outcomes;

– Identifying, monitoring, and proactively managing project risks and issues;

– Developing project plans and schedules, including the right project controls, managing performance and reporting progress to sponsors.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

– Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate complex matters to different audiences;

– Analytical skills to weigh up sources of evidence to formulate pragmatic options, considering delivery viability throughout;

– The softer skills to build effective relationships with different partners across government and industry;

– Proven ability to perform consistently to tight timescales with a high degree of visibility;

– Ability to work with teams, professions and across organisations.

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace

BEIS offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

• A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, home working and compressed hours;

• Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme;

• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30;

• An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue;

• Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.