Education Policy Designer

at  Department for Education

JOB SUMMARY

These are exciting times at the Department for Education and we’re continuing to build effective services for all – children, adults, and those in social care. Our diverse and inclusive culture reflects the society we live in and this helps us to achieve better outcomes for all our users.
We want excellent teachers for every child. This requires user-centred services to make it easy for people to become teachers and find the right job at every step of their career, from expressing an interest in teaching, becoming a teacher and developing their career and moving jobs. A key aspect of this is the digital transformation of our services.
We design, build and support joined-up services, making a real difference to millions of people who use education services. We make our users’ experiences much easier by ensuring that they are designed around their needs and goals. We innovate, experiment, challenge, and iterate. We care about the way we work, how we treat each other, the quality of our services and we get the job done.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We’re looking for a Senior Policy Designer to join our Agile community to support the development of new policy and the delivery of new digital services for aspiring teachers. You will work in a hybrid team of policy specialists and digital delivery professionals to support the development of new policies and services, supporting people applying for teacher training, and schools and universities providing teacher training.

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)

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and test policy interventions to maximise the opportunities presented by DfE’s digital recruitment services, working closely with product teams to agree policy/service priorities.
• Support teams through the agile delivery lifecycle (discovery, alpha, beta, and live), to design and test innovative policy and digital service solutions, leading engagement with schools and universities to socialise these.
• Support the development of a teacher recruitment strategy, working collaboratively with teams to reflect this strategy in product roadmaps.
• Build relationships with stakeholders, both internal and external, to support the team’s policy objectives.
• Manage ministerial engagement on teacher recruitment, using data and evidence to illustrate the impact of our policy/service interventions.
• Co-ordinate responses to briefing requests, private office correspondence and FOI’s.
• Grow the DfE digital/policy community sharing your learning and celebrating progress made by other people and teams.