Senior Policy Lead: Death Management & Legislation

The Methodist Church in Britain; Leeds, Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Flexible benefits

Extensive training and development

Family-friendly policies

Job summary

Ministry of Justice in the United Kingdom is seeking a permanent SEO Senior Policy Adviser to join the Death Management Policy and Casework Team. The role focuses on policy development and implementation related to death management, including the Law Commission's review, while supporting casework and collaboration with MoJ lawyers and analysts.

You will advise ministers and senior leaders, manage stakeholders, and oversee at least one HEO, with hybrid working options.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and oral communication, including explaining policy to non-experts and senior stakeholders.
• Interpersonal skills and stakeholder management, including negotiation with lawyers, ministers and other departments.
• Self-starting and proactive, able to prioritise competing demands.
• Highly organised, with an aptitude for detailed work.
• Problem solving and using solutions to improve team ways of working.
• Turning policy issues into options deliverable in operational and judicial settings.

Responsibilities

• Take forward policy development and implementation on death management issues, including the government's response to the Law Commission's review of burial, cremation and funerary methods.
• Advise ministers and senior leaders, orally and in writing, on strategic decisions and long-term death management policy.
• Lead engagement with key stakeholders and work with MoJ lawyers and analysts to identify policy, legislative and operational issues.
• Respond to Parliamentary Questions and draft replies to written correspondence from MPs and the public.
• Support legislative work with MoJ lawyers.
• Provide progress updates to senior managers, private offices and ministers.
• Provide project management support across assigned areas, driving work forward independently.
• Advise on ad hoc policy issues and act as a source of knowledge for departmental and wider government colleagues.
• Manage and develop at least one HEO
• Support the team's casework function.
• Work on issues arising from the statutory Medical Examiner scheme introduced in 2024.

Tools

Office 365

Job description

Ministry of Justice in the United Kingdom is seeking a permanent SEO Senior Policy Adviser to join the Death Management Policy and Casework Team. The role focuses on policy development and implementation related to death management, including the Law Commission's review, while supporting casework and collaboration with MoJ lawyers and analysts.

You will advise ministers and senior leaders, manage stakeholders, and oversee at least one HEO, with hybrid working options.