Job summary
The Prime Minister?s Office enables the Prime Minister to deliver the Government?s overall priorities and to communicate the Government?s policies to Parliament, the public and international audiences.
From the Policy Unit, Press Office, Switchboard and Custodians to the Events & Visits team and the Private Office support; the diverse No.10 team draws on varied expertise from across the Civil Service and beyond.
The teams come together to deliver excellent service to the Prime Minister while also making No.10 a great place to work.
No.10 North is focused on delivering good growth in every postcode and ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to thrive, no matter where they live.
No.10 North is the Prime Minister?s centre for devolution, place and local growth.
Based in Manchester and working across the United Kingdom, it connects places directly to the centre of government.
It brings together local leaders, HM Treasury and other government departments to resolve problems that no single organisation can solve alone.
Job description
The Strategic Engagement team supports No.10 North to build and design its engagement approach to ensure it is strategic, insight-led and delivers value for the First Secretary of State and the Prime Minister.
We enable consistent, high-quality engagement with strategically important partners across the UK to support the design and delivery of the Prime Minister?s ambitious agenda for No.10 North.
Our work is fast paced and varied ? planning and delivering engagement that will build strong local and national partnerships around a shared vision that will drive the delivery of rewiring the state and good growth in every postcode.
As a Strategic Engagement Lead, you are a member of the unit?s corporate leadership team. The post leads on:
Designing and delivering high-quality, responsive engagement across government, and
Developing and tracking progress against the key objectives of No.10 North.
Key responsibilities include
- Building strong, productive engagement with strategically important stakeholders aligned to the purpose of No.10 North.
- Working with teams across government, Mayoral Strategic Authorities (MSAs) and local authorities across the UK, the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector, academia, business and investment to strengthen collaboration, delivering targeted engagement that facilitates good growth and rewiring the state through devolution and public service reform.
- Build and maintain influential relationships with key stakeholders, sectors and partner organisations.
- Ensure engagement activities, events and communications are coordinated, impactful and deliver measurable outcomes for the sector.
- Act as a senior ambassador for No.10 North, representing the organisation at forums, events and stakeholder groups.
- Provide strategic insight and advice to support sector decision-making, future priorities and business planning.
- Develop strategic partnerships and champion collaboration across No.10 North and South and across government to maximise impact.
Person specification
Essential skills and experience:
Communicating and influencing for impact: Highly developed communication and influencing skills including experience of presenting to large groups and working with/influencing senior stakeholders both inside and outside of government.
Driving continuous improvement: A ?test and learn? mindset with experience of driving continuous improvement in the work of a team or across organisations at rapid pace (including use of digital solutions and generative AI).
Effective network management and event delivery: Experience of running successful stakeholder networks and events.
Proven experience of developing and delivering strategic plans.
Experience of significant contribution to high-performing teams.
Experience managing operational performance.
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Desirable skills and experience
Experience of working with the VCFSE sector and public services or businesses, investors and public finance institutions OR Mayoral Strategic Authorities (MSAs) and local government.
Additional information
Office for the Prime Minister policy is that a minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace.
For some roles, due to their nature and the business need, this may be up to 100%.
Requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Communicating and Influencing
Seeing the Big Picture
Working Together
Delivering at Pace
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £59,207, Cabinet Office contributes £17,152 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Learning and development tailored to your role.
An environment with flexible working options.
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and employer contributions of 28.97%.
A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.