Maritime Environment Policy Advisor

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Do you have excellent communication and influencing skills?
Can you build and maintain strong working relationships?
Would you like to work in the international space, taking the lead on shipping air quality and non-greenhouse gas emissions for the UK?
If so, then we would love for you to apply!, We are recruiting for a Senior Policy Advisor to join the Maritime Environment and Decarbonisation division within the Maritime Directorate. The division is responsible for reducing the environmental impacts of the maritime sector and helping to deliver a greener transport system. This role focuses on the contribution of the maritime sector to environmental policy outside of decarbonisation, such as air quality and biodiversity.
The role encompasses both domestic and international policy, working on policies that range from those at an early stage of development through to building on recent progress made on international policy. The role will involve attending and participating in international negotiations as part of the UK delegation to the International Maritime Organization, developing and delivering domestic environmental policy and stakeholder engagement both within HMG, to ensure a strategic approach to environment policy, and externally, to ensure buy-in from the maritime sector itself. This is a high-profile post with a lot of opportunity to make a difference to the future of environmental policy in the maritime sector., + Lead negotiations on emission control areas and air quality impacts of international shipping at the International Maritime Organization, working closely with colleagues in DfT, the Marine and Coastguard Agency (MCA), across government departments, and internationally to reach high environmental outcomes.
+ Build close relationships with DfT’s central environment team and technical experts in the MCA to develop close involvement and technical understanding on the range of existing maritime environment work.
+ Champion environmental considerations across the directorate, working with maritime colleagues in DfT and the MCA, to ensure that environmental impacts beyond decarbonisation are included in developing policies and investment decisions.
+ Develop relationships with a range of stakeholders, to better understand the impact of emerging environmental policies on maritime operations, as well as ensuring a broad range of input into policy development.
+ Work closely with analysts across DfT to progress work to fill evidence gaps on the non-GHG impact of future fuels and energy choices for the maritime sector, to inform future policy development and future business cases/investment decisions.
+ Support wider areas of the environment and decarbonisation portfolio of work as necessary.
For an in-depth insight into the role please refer to the Role Profile., A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.
Occasional travel to other DfT offices will be required.
It is expected that the role holder will need to travel to London to attend relevant in-person sessions at the International Maritime Organization, for periods of around one week. These are likely to take place at least twice a year. There may also be some necessary international travel to attend in-person events on the environmental impacts of shipping, which will be on an ad-hoc basis.

Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Delivering at Pace
+ Leadership
+ Seeing the Big Picture
+ Working Together

Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
+ 1. Strategy 1.1. Policy Context and Purpose Level 1: Developing Policy Profession Framework
+ 1. Strategy 1.4. Working Internationally Level 1: Developing - Policy Profession Framework
+ 2. Democracy 2.1. Working with Ministers Level 1: Developing Policy Profession Framework, The sift is due to take place from 28th November.
Interviews/assessments are likely to be held w/c 9th December.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
+ an interview and a written policy exercise
This interview could be conducted online via Teams or face to face at one of our offices. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
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Reasonable Adjustments
As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes., Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

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Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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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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The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

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To be successful in this role, you will have excellent organisation skills which you will use to help prioritise your workload. You are enthusiastic and proactive. You are a strategic thinker who can recognise when to step back at look at high level strategic outcomes. You have strong communication skills which you will use to negotiate and influence diverse stakeholders including senior civil servants and Ministers, and international stakeholders. You are comfortable working with a degree of ambiguity and have the ability to be adaptable to achieve strategic objectives., When considering applying please look at how your experience relates to the role, and within your CV and Personal Statement please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following:
+ Experience in designing and delivering policy, with the ability to proactively drive forward process across different workstreams.
+ Experience in establishing and maintaining strong working relationships with stakeholders, both within government and external stakeholders, such as industry or other states, to support successful delivery of government strategic objectives.
+ Experience of prioritisation and organisational skills.
+ Strong written and oral communication skills, including experience of briefing seniors, both in writing and verbally.

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