You will lead on policy development relating to Post Office compensation schemes. The work is high profile and a priority for Ministers. You will need to provide high quality recommendations and decisions on policy options on complex and technical policy issues, and high quality written and verbal communication. This will require a significant degree of judgement, creativity and flexibility and will mean you lead on developing policy proposals, briefing, submissions, and answering PQs. You will be expected to provide authoritative advice and guidance on your policy areas, and quality assure and direct the work of more junior staff. You will need to manage change effectively, be forward looking and proactive in anticipating issues. You will need to work independently, at pace, and carefully balance priorities to deliver work on time. It will also require you to work closely with colleagues across DBT (in Finance, Legal, Commercial, Analysts, Comms and Private Office), with counterparts in His Majesty’s Treasury (HMT), with our policy implementation team and you will need effective working relationships with opposites at Post Office. You will also be required to advise on casework as and when necessary, including reviewing exception cases, monitoring progress in delivery of compensation, feeding into spending review commissions and wider cross-cutting policy decisions.
The work of the team and responsibilities are subject to change, so will require the post holder to be adaptable, resilient and work flexibly across a number of policy projects. Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to leading the policy on specific elements of Horizon and wider Post Office compensation – a compensation scheme, currently in pilot, led by POL for paying back postmasters for processes and products that may have caused losses. This includes reviewing exception cases, monitoring progress, feeding into spending commissions and wider policy decisions. This will include working with the Post Office, DBT colleagues and HMT on the development and monitoring of wider post office redress policy issues, including the development of relevant business cases, where appropriate. You will also support programme monitoring through project management tools. There are currently no line management responsibilities associated with this role, but this may change over the tenure of the post.
Role responsibilities:
* Lead on policy development relating to Post Office compensation schemes. Provide authoritative advice and guidance on your policy areas and cross-cutting policy, delivering high quality policy proposals, recommendations and decisions on complex and technical policy issues, following input from finance, legal, commercial, analysts, comms, private office, Post Office and HMT.
* Be proactive in developing team policy plans, carefully balance priorities to deliver work on time and quality assure and direct the work of more junior staff.
* Build and lead high quality relationships with colleagues across the Post Office team, DBT, HMT and with Post Office.
* Lead on briefing, submissions, and answering PQs, and potentially briefing and supporting Ministers during debates.
* Lead advice on casework as and when necessary, including reviewing exception cases, monitoring progress in delivery of compensation, feeding into spending review commissions and wider cross-cutting policy decisions.
* The work of the team and responsibilities are subject to change, so will require the post holder to be adaptable, resilient, planning ahead and working flexibly across a number of policy projects as needs demand.
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