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Are you an innovative and strategic thinker who is able to communicate complex information and data?

Can you build and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders at all levels?

Do you have excellent policy development skills?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

DfT is a high-profile department at the heart of UK government. We work with agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest to make journeys better.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here

• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday

• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at DfT: Department for Transport Central - Department for Transport Careers

The Transport Resilience, Analysis, International and Sanctions Directorate within DfT is home to the Transport Resilience Division. The Division’s main objective is to ensure that the Department can prepare for, mitigate, and respond to a major incident impacting the UK transport network and wider UK Government interests.

As a part of this Division, you will work with partners across DfT, other government departments, and academia and industry, to build the department’s resilience to future threats and hazards. These could range from terrorist incidents and cyber-attacks to catastrophic flooding and volcanic eruptions.

This role will be within the Strategy and Engagement team, supporting the development and implementation of a new Transport Resilience Strategy, which will introduce a new approach to resilience within the department and guide activity with external stakeholders in the transport sector. This will involve drafting strategy content, undertaking wide- ranging stakeholder engagement to shape the strategy, and developing an accompanying delivery plan and metrics to measure the impact of work to improve the resilience of the UK Transport system to current and future threats and hazards.

This role is ideal for someone looking to take on a challenge and broaden their experience. There will be opportunities to brief senior officials and Ministers and represent the Department at cross-Whitehall discussions and multinational fora.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Supporting the development and subsequent implementation of the Transport Resilience Strategy.
• Leading the development of the associated delivery plan, working with departmental colleagues and external stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve transport.
• Building relationships with analysis, science and research teams, and with experts across government and beyond, to provide evidence for the team’s work.
• Collaborating with modal policy experts to understand the impacts of different risks facing the department, and escalating appropriately to senior leaders.
• Raising the importance of transport resilience in cross-government forums, making DfT strategic priorities clear.
• Deputising for the Head of Resilience Strategy and Engagement at internal management, cross-Whitehall and external meetings.

The Resilience Division is made up of five teams that work very closely together. Due to the nature of the work, it is sometimes necessary to reprioritise at short notice and work flexibly under matrix management.

The Resilience Division plays a crucial role in the Department’s emergency response mechanisms sitting alongside the Transport Security Operations Centre (TSOC). You therefore may be asked to participate in the Department’s response to a security or civil contingencies incident that exceeds the Operational Response team’s capacity.

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.