Correspondence and Briefings Lead – Department For Business Energy And Industrial Strategy Jobs In London

Overview

Position Title:Correspondence and Briefings Lead

Company: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

Location: London, UK

Job Description

The Net Zero Buildings portfolio is recruiting for an SEO for the Briefing and Correspondence Hub. This team ensures that the portfolio delivers its required policy outcomes through a co-ordinated, collaborative approach to delivery across a complex landscape of internal and external stakeholders. The successful candidate will operate within a small central team of dedicated briefing and correspondence specialists, and will also work collaboratively with relevant colleagues embedded throughout a series of teams across the portfolio.

Responsibilities:

• The post holder will be responsible for triaging departmental correspondence, including TOs, MCs, PQs and FOIs, ensure these are properly tracked and effectively actioned within departmental and cross- Whitehall deadlines.
• They will build and nurture productive collaborative relationships across a broad and complex stakeholder and colleague base (external and internal), confidently engaging with senior officials and ministers, thus enabling the directorate to fulfil its programme delivery remit against a challenging timetable and a complex and volatile external environment.

Requirements:

• Proven experience of understanding challenging policy areas and explaining this clearly for multiple audiences.
• Proven ability to manage and coordinate relationships, with policy, analysis, finance, and other professional colleagues, to produce quality outputs, including senior leaders.
• Track record in delivering successful outcomes on multiple workstreams at pace, with purpose, resilience, and calmness under pressure.
• Ability to quickly absorb and process new information and developing policy, identifying shifts in the wider political, economic, and social environment and assessing their potential impact on the delivery of outputs or the risks to programme delivery.