About the job

Job summary

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.

Have you got excellent attention to detail?

Can you extract information from a range of data and present your findings clearly and with confidence?

Do you work well as part of a team offering support to a wider team delivering key policy and project outcomes?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Job description

The Maritime Environment team undertake the programmes and policy work required for the UK to meet its environmental targets, including net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in domestic maritime.

This role will provide you the opportunity to work on important environmental issues across Government, and with stakeholders from industry, academia and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). This role will focus on the management of the maritime environment programme to realise greater benefit in the decarbonisation of the sector and help to place the UK at the forefront of maritime innovation.

Your job will be as a Programme Officer and Secretariat within the Programme and Finance team, where you will be key in acting as secretariat for boards, including the Ministerially-chaired Clean Maritime Council; monitoring programme spend; and delivering the programme controls and scrutiny required to ensure the success of decarbonisation in Maritime.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Running the Clean Maritime Council, managing a joint chairing structure with the Minister and a senior industry chair.
• Acting as secretariat for senior boards, managing attendees and agendas, engaging professionally with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Coordinating and managing reporting processes and engaging with teams both internal and external to DfT to deliver high quality reporting outcomes.
• Monitoring and challenging programme spending and enabling the team to deliver a well-managed research and development funding programme.

For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.

Person specification

About you:

• We are looking for someone who has exceptional communication skills and can express themselves in a confident and concise manner with colleagues at all levels.
• You will represent the department both professionally and clearly, ensuring key messages are delivered to both internal and external stakeholders in a timely fashion.
• You will have good attention to detail and take pride in producing work to a high standard.
• Organisational skills are pivotal to this role and you will have the ability to deliver against multiple objectives, whilst maintaining the highest standards.
• You work well with colleagues at all levels, and see the importance of building effective working relationships both within and outside of your immediate team.

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. 

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 and Experience.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a CV, Personal Statement, and evidence of the lead behaviour, Managing a Quality Service.

Within your CV and Personal Statement please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following: 

• Experience of communicating messages clearly and effectively to internal/external stakeholders at all levels.
• Excellent attention to detail, being able to extract information from data/reports and share this with others so it is clear to understand.
• Ability to review and sensitively challenge individual positions to produce a better final outcome.

Please fully utilise the 500-word count when completing your personal statement.

Should a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be conducted using the lead behaviour which is Managing a Quality Service. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to interview.

The sift is due to take place from Monday 29th April 2024.

Interviews are likely to be held from Thursday 16th May 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.

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

You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.

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.

Document Accessibility

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

This job advert contains links to the DfT Careers website. Our website provides useful guidance and information that can support you during the application process. If you cannot access the information on our website for any reason, please email DRGComms@dft.gov.uk for assistance.

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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

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.