Sectors Briefing Hub Senior Account Manager

at  Department for Business and Trade

JOB SUMMARY

The Sectors Briefing Hub sits within the Business, Intelligence & Resilience Directorate. We are a busy, high performing but encouraging and friendly team. Our role is to serve Ministers, Senior Officials and Policy Teams by responding, accurately and to deadlines to requests for briefings, correspondence and Parliamentary Questions across Business Group.
The Hub deals with these requests, allowing policy teams to focus on policy making and delivery. Sector teams across the group generally work on cross cutting policy areas, we work with other teams within Business Group and with other Government departments to provide a joined-up approach to delivering key departmental and wider Government messages.
The Sectors Briefing Hub prides itself on providing a supportive and friendly environment, where someone can take their drafting, organisational and relationship-management skills to the next level, and hone these while staying closely connected with some of the Department’s key priority policy areas. The Directorate is a rewarding, dynamic place to work and strongly encourages flexible working and personal learning & development. This role is a great opportunity for someone who is looking to develop and nurture their drafting skills and leadership ability.
This role is suitable for flexible working and can be based in London or at a departmental regional hub. Members across our team currently work flexibly, under a hybrid-working model and support will be given to ensure that the role fits with personal circumstances. All team members are highly encouraged to invest time in corporate activities for the team and wider DBT activities.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for 2 SEO Senior Account Managers to help lead the team’s work in this respect covering Agritech, Food & Drink and Energy sectors. These are priority sectors for the Government and attract close scrutiny from politicians, the media and the public. The role is central in facilitating the delivery of key government priorities through correspondence, briefing and parliamentary work. It will require collaborating with a range of stakeholders, including policy teams, parliamentary & correspondence teams and Ministerial private offices and potentially colleagues across government. It is multifaceted and fast paced – you will be responsible for the following activities:

Co-ordination of briefing requests, drafting cross-cutting and policy specific briefing and speeches to support Ministerial and senior official engagement on the policy team’s meaningful topics.

• Providing tailored draft replies to Ministerial and Treat Official correspondence.
• Drafting responses to Parliamentary Questions, both Written and Oral.
• Drafting briefing and speaking notes for Parliamentary Debates and Urgent Questions.
• Ensuring the team’s correspondence and PQ targets are met, and supporting the maintenance of statistics as needed.
• Building positive relationships with the policy teams in order to understand their policy priorities, ensuring they are sighted on “hot issues” emerging from correspondence and to build and maintain their confidence in the work of the team.
• Maintaining excellent links with Ministers’ offices, Parliamentary Branch, and Special Advisers
• Potential Line-Management of HEO Account Manager(s).

We are a collaborative team that works flexibly to respond to immediate priorities. The individual that holds this role may also be required to contribute to workstreams outside of those listed above in support of the wider team.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS CRITERIA

• Policy experience
• Strong drafting skills

DESIRABLE SKILLS CRITERIA

• Line management experience
• Briefing experience

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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