About the job

Job summary

Are you a strong communicator with the ability to challenge and influence to achieve great results?

Do you have good organisational skills and can effectively prioritise to deliver on time?

Are you confident analysing complex information to make informed recommendations?

If so, we'd love to hear from you!

We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Job description

Local transport plays a key role in delivering transport infrastructure at a local level. The Local Infrastructure Delivery division delivers some of local transport most high-profile funds delivering benefits to millions of people. The Division looks after areas such as the flagship City Regional Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS), as well as the Transforming Cities Fund (TCF) and the Levelling Up Fund.

CRSTS provides eligible Mayoral Combined Authorities (MCAs) with consolidated long-term capital funding to support economic growth, drive levelling up and decarbonise transport by transforming local transport networks. The first 5-year settlements provide £5.7bn of funding from 2022/23 to 2026/27.  Subsequently, a further £15.8bn of funding for the second CRSTS period running from 2027/28 to 2031/32 has been announced. These announcements make it an incredibly exciting time to be working in the Local Infrastructure Delivery division!

As a delivery advisor in the CRSTS team you will be supporting holding cities to account on delivering key local transport projects and will lead on various aspects of the CRSTS programme. You will work across Local Directorate and the wider division to help ensure alignment across different funds, learning lessons from others and looking to support the CRSTS team in implementing these. 

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, including modal teams across the Department to ensure CRSTS delivery practices align with wider funds.
• Deputise for Grade 7 delivery leads on engagement with stakeholders, managing aspects of the relationship and their funding – such as change control requests, solving issues and leading on briefings, correspondence and Parliamentary Questions.
• Lead on monitoring of CRSTS and individual cities’ quarterly reports, providing delivery updates and providing input into relevant Boards. Feed into other workstreams and identify dependencies (such as financial forecasting) and ensure alignment.
• Supporting CRSTS2 plans, including identifying scope, objectives and timings as well as forward thinking on how the fund will be managed – identifying improvements from the current process. Seeking input from a wide range of stakeholders including DfT, HM Treasury and MCAs.
• Ensure appropriate governance is managed within the division, following and developing best practice.

For more information, please see the attached Role Profile.

Person specification

About you

To thrive in this role, you will be a strategic thinker, linking issues together to maximise opportunities to add value. You enjoy building effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including at times at senior level. You are confident and skilled in providing challenge where necessary to ensure the best outcomes are delivered. You use strong and dynamic communication skills to deliver your message, create a strong sense of purpose, and influence those around you. You take an evidence-based approach, are organised, keen to learn new skills and can deal with uncertainty. You keep in mind the bigger picture and look beyond the status quo to see how things could be improved.

With exceptional organisational skills, you will be able to monitor progress and project delivery milestones, ensuring that deadlines are met. You will be expected to be a team player, being flexible in your responsibilities as the role develops.

Additional Information

A minimum of 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.

There may be occasional travel to visit stakeholders and other DfTc offices.

Benefits

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance. 

Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.

How to apply

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide a CV and a 750-word Personal Statement.

Please tailor your CV to suit the role.

For your Personal Statement, please provide detailed evidence of the following:

• Experience of working collaboratively and engaging effectively to develop constructive and supportive relationships to bring people together
• Strong and dynamic communication skills to deliver your message, with the ability to create a strong sense of purpose, and influence those around you
• Experience of analysing data/information and taking an evidence-based approach to inform decisions
• Experience of identifying, monitoring and responding to risks & issues.

The sift is due to take place 26th-28th March 2024

Interviews/assessments are likely to be held between from 11th April 2024.

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.

The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:

• An interview and a written policy exercise.

This interview will be conducted online via Teams. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.

You’re encouraged to familiarise yourself with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within. Please also familiarise yourself with the Policy profession standards - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) 

The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.

Reasonable Adjustments

As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

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Further Information

For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.

Pre-employment Checking

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment. 

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.