Materials Directorate

at  Department for Business and Trade

JOB SUMMARY

Businesses are at the heart of the economy and DBT’s priorities. Our aim is to make the UK the best place in the world to start and grow a business.
DBT’s Materials Directorate works to ensure the UK has internationally competitive industrial sectors and resilient supply chains for strategically important materials and products – such as critical minerals, chemicals, glass, ceramics, steel and aluminium. We are responsible for ensuring that these industries create jobs, decarbonise, build skills and continue to invest and grow economic wealth.
We are looking to recruit three Grade 6s into exciting, varied and high-profile roles across the Directorate which will involve leadership, strategy and policy development across a broad portfolio. All of the roles will involve significant engagement with Ministers, senior officials across Whitehall and senior stakeholders from businesses.
DBT is a modern and diverse workplace, committed to promoting and ensuring equality and valuing diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

We are looking for three engaging leaders with a track record of successfully leading multiple work strands within fast paced conditions. You will need to have:

• A track record of strong and effective leadership, with experience of building high-performing and engaged teams.
• Excellent drafting skills and significant experience of leading the policy development process, including managing input from various experts to present policy recommendations.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation and influencing skills with evidence of building close, trusting relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work under pressure and adapt to a fast-paced environment.
• The ability to build close, trusting relationships with a variety of stakeholders across Whitehall, with stakeholders external to Government and with Ministers and Senior Officials.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Leadership

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

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