Export Performance Project Manager

at  Department for Business and Trade

JOB SUMMARY

This is an exciting time to join the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). DBT is the department for economic growth. We support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating high quality jobs and opportunities across the entire country.

We will:

• Redraw our rules to ensure businesses thrive, markets are competitive and consumers are protected.
• Secure investment from UK and international businesses.
• Advise, support, and promote British businesses to grow and export.
• Open up new markets for businesses by removing barriers and striking trade deals.
• Promote free trade, economic security and resilient supply chains.

We are seeking a Project Manager to support the development, governance and performance reporting of the new export performance framework.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and building a culturally diverse workplace. We actively encourage applications from people from the widest possible diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. Our culture of inclusion is underpinned by our excellent staff networks which cover disability, faith and belief, gender equality, social mobility, age, race, LGBT+, and how to be an ally.

JOB DESCRIPTION

This is a new and varied post within the UK Export Strategy Team in the Domestic and International Markets and Exports Directorate of DBT. We support UK businesses to either start exporting or further develop their exporting activities. We want to develop a new export framework to measure our performance. This will contain a clear set of metrics of our export operations globally, and a management and accountability mechanism. This has the aim of helping us understand and improve our services, so we help drive up exports.
The role of the Project Manager is to work on a varied selection of projects on a day-to-day basis ranging from planning and performance and from communications to capability.

You will be responsible for:

• Project management: supporting the delivery the new exports performance framework, championing the use of best practice project management standards and processes.
• Performance reporting: support the development and delivery of a new reporting process and business planning across DIME.
• Governance: manage and coordinate appropriate governance for the project.
• Stakeholder relations: ensure our internal stakeholders are at the forefront of our thinking at all times and actively brought alongside the work both in the UK and at Post.
• Risk management: support the development of project processes and standards for managing risks and issues.
• Team support: identify, develop and share best practice processes, tools and templates within the team and across exports.

We are looking for a proactive self-starter with a keen eye for detail and the ability to work on varied projects in quick succession.

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)

You will be responsible for:

• Project management: supporting the delivery the new exports performance framework, championing the use of best practice project management standards and processes.
• Performance reporting: support the development and delivery of a new reporting process and business planning across DIME.
• Governance: manage and coordinate appropriate governance for the project.
• Stakeholder relations: ensure our internal stakeholders are at the forefront of our thinking at all times and actively brought alongside the work both in the UK and at Post.
• Risk management: support the development of project processes and standards for managing risks and issues.
• Team support: identify, develop and share best practice processes, tools and templates within the team and across exports