The Labour Market Participation and Individual Rights Team is part of the Employment Rights Directorate, in the Department for Business and Trade. Our directorate plays a pivotal role in delivering the government’s ambitious agenda on improving workers’ rights and implementing the government’s Plan to Make Work Pay.
This role sits at the heart of the Labour Market Participation and Individual Rights Team. Our work is centred on improving labour market participation and helping people to balance their work alongside their personal lives, whether that’s raising a family, caring for a loved one or managing their own health. The team is responsible for a range of policies that will impact nearly everyone in this country at some point in their lives, including flexible working rights, maternity and paternity leave, and carer’s leave.
We are recruiting for a stretching G7 role that will provide an opportunity to lead high-profile policy work, manage policy co-ordination across the wider Deputy Director led team, and lead engagement with a range of internal and external stakeholders. We are seeking a candidate who has the passion and ability to deliver on their team’s objectives whilst taking an active leadership role in the wider team.
You will take on an exciting area of work and lead a newly created team. You will have the opportunity to shape your team’s work at an early stage and so you will need to have the ability to motivate and up-skill your team to deliver through a period of uncertainty, project set-up and change.
You will join a high-performing team and will work collaboratively with a diverse group of people including colleagues across DBT and in other departments to deliver in fast-moving and often changing circumstances. You will be supported by a friendly leadership team who prioritise inclusion and team development.
You will begin leading on three main areas of work, though this is likely to evolve over time:
* Leading work to develop a strategic narrative and engagement plan on the range of policy measures across the Participation and Individual Rights Team. This will likely involve working closely with a range of policy teams to develop coherent messaging on how the range of policy projects managed by the team fit together to help working people and support families.
* Developing and managing a range of services and approaches to support the Participation and Individual Rights Team to work efficiently. This will include embedding an approach to project management across the team, leading team reporting, and setting up a team correspondence hub.
* Leading the department’s co-sponsorship of the Keep Britain Working independent review. The review is designed to explore what Government and employers can do to increase the recruitment, retention and return to work of disabled people and people with long-term health conditions. It is jointly sponsored by the Department for Business and Trade and Department for Work and Pensions. You will lead the department’s input into the review, working closely with officials in the Department for Work and Pensions.
Core responsibilities
The core responsibilities of this role will involve:
* Managing the development of high-quality briefings and advice for senior civil servants and ministers to support the delivery of your portfolio.
* Leading the development of a coherent communications and engagement approach on labour market participation policy, ensuring the needs of a range of different stakeholders are considered.
* Leading the planning and delivery of engagement events to support policy discussion and stakeholder input.
* Managing the set-up and running of a project management approach and a participation correspondence hub. You will need to develop an approach for these functions and make sure the wider team are brought into the development and delivery of these.
* Leading the division's response to emerging projects and workstrands to determine the case for involvement
* Managing a team of at least 3 people to deliver high-quality outputs whilst supporting their development.
The role is in an evolving policy environment, and the post-holder will have the opportunity to help shape the role in line with the needs of the division as the work progresses.
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