Policy Advisor
Role Overview
Policy Advisor in the Digital Inclusion and Skills Directorate, working on Essential Digital Skills policy and delivery.
The role supports work to help people across the UK build the digital skills needed for life and work.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Policy Advisor in the Digital Inclusion and Skills Directorate, working on Essential Digital Skills policy and delivery.
The role supports work to help people across the UK build the digital skills needed for life and work.
Key responsibilities
- Own policy and delivery workstreams, coordinate cross-government activity, follow up actions and help resolve issues.
- Support the design and delivery of the Essential Digital Skills National Survey.
- Plan and facilitate meetings and evidence gathering; prepare agendas and papers, capture findings and track agreed actions.
- Promote and embed the refreshed Essential Digital Skills Framework.
- Use research, analytical evidence and stakeholder insight to identify themes, gaps and trade-offs and develop recommendations.
- Support cross-government coordination, funding programmes, delivery pilots, Parliamentary Questions, correspondence, briefings and ministerial submissions.
Locations and working pattern
- The advertised locations are Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London and Salford.
- The stated working patterns include flexible working, full-time, job share and part-time.
Pay and benefits
- The salary range is £37,655–£44,595, with separate national and London ranges; part-time pay is pro rata.
- A Civil Service Pension is offered with a stated employer contribution of 28.97%.
About the department
The Department for Science, Innovation & Technology works to advance science and technology, support innovation and investment, and ensure technology benefits people across the UK.
The department describes citizen outcomes and improving people's lives as central to its work.
Requirements
- Able to coordinate policy and delivery workstreams with colleagues, analysts, suppliers and external stakeholders.
- Able to use research, analytical evidence and stakeholder insight to identify themes, gaps and trade-offs and develop options for decision-makers.
- Able to plan and facilitate meetings and evidence-gathering activity, and produce agendas and papers.
- Able to support survey design and delivery and translate evidence and delivery issues into clear next steps.
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