Honours Strategy Lead
Role Overview
The Honours & Awards team manages nominations from DCMS sectors for the New Year’s Day and King’s Birthday honours rounds.
This new, high-profile role leads strategic reform of the DCMS honours system and contributes to improvements led by the Cabinet Office.
The role manages and is supported by an HEO analyst who provides data, insight, and demographic analysis.
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Role overview
The Honours & Awards team manages nominations from DCMS sectors for the New Year’s Day and King’s Birthday honours rounds.
This new, high-profile role leads strategic reform of the DCMS honours system and contributes to improvements led by the Cabinet Office.
The role manages and is supported by an HEO analyst who provides data, insight, and demographic analysis.
Responsibilities
- Implement recommendations from the departmental honours review and deliver reform across DCMS.
- Develop policies and processes to improve the quality, diversity, and regional representation of nominations.
- Engage senior stakeholders, including ministers, the Permanent Secretary, and Honours Committee Chairs.
- Drive cultural and organisational change to improve understanding and participation in the honours system.
- Coordinate DCMS’s input to the cross-government honours review and provide strategic advice to ministers and senior leaders.
Essential requirements
- Work at pace to deliver strategic priorities while meeting deadlines.
- Demonstrate political awareness and build trust with ministers and senior officials.
- Communicate exceptionally well verbally and in writing.
- Show significant experience working in ambiguity, self-starting, and developing strategic ways forward with limited parameters.
- Have significant experience engaging stakeholders across seniority levels, Whitehall, and external organisations.
- Have experience using CRM software and AI for reporting and process and data streamlining.
- Use data confidently to inform evidence-based decisions and recommendations.
Desirable experience
- Previous experience delivering strategic recommendations in a high-priority, high-profile area is desirable.
- Previous experience working with the Cabinet Office, No10, or the Royal Palace is desirable.
Pay and contract
- The stated salary range is £56,582–£63,384.
- The contract is fixed term for 18 months; loan and secondment arrangements are also listed.
Working pattern
- Working patterns listed are flexible working, full-time, and job share.
Location
- The listed job location is Manchester.
Information session
- An information session about the role and team is listed for 10:30–11:00 on 28 November 2026.
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