Deputy Director for Fixed Telecoms

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• Location
• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London and Salford. Some travel to London will be required.

About the job

Job summary

The Fixed Telecoms team drives work to deliver connectivity to people across the UK. Our mission is to deliver gigabit-capable broadband to everyone in the UK in a cost-effective way that also promotes competition in the market. The team covers issues from Government-funded delivery, regulation of the commercial market, and the switch-off of older copper and 2G networks. This is a high-profile Deputy Director role with significant amounts of Ministerial and Parliamentary engagement and busy portfolio.

Job description

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead a diverse team of over 30 people with all staff having clear objectives, development plans, and a positive sense of how they feed into wider goals.
• Play an active part in the wider leadership of the Digital Infrastructure Group, making this a great place to work.
• Lead Government policy on fixed telecoms issues – setting the overall strategy to deliver gigabit connectivity across the UK.
• Provide robust and supportive sponsorship of Building Digital UK – the Arm’s Length Body delivering subsidised digital infrastructure projects. This includes providing policy leadership on Project Gigabit, a multi-billion pound Major Project delivering.
• Develop policy to address barriers to telecoms rollout, working across planning and regulatory issues. Building strong relationships with other Government departments to advance our agenda.
• Monitor risks with PSTN (copper landline) and 2G switch-off, ensure Ofcom are protecting consumers effectively, and mobilise the power of Government to smooth the transition. This requires delivering through industry and other Government Departments – you will need strong influencing and negotiating skills.
• Develop policy regarding connectivity for Very Hard to Reach Properties.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the fixed telecoms sectors and be the Government expert on the sector.

Person specification

Essentials – the successful candidate will demonstrate:

• The ability to lead a diverse, inclusive, high-performing team which can deliver on multiple and competing work pressures.
• Ability to lead on a wide, high-profile portfolio using strong analytical and policy skills, excellent judgement, and strategic thinking.
• Excellent stakeholder and relationship management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across organisational boundaries and with industry at a senior level.
• A Highly effective communication skills with political sensitivity and judgement, the ability to translate complex policy issues into clear advice.

Behaviours

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

• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £76,000, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology contributes £22,017 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

• A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
• Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
• An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
• Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.

Office attendance

The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period. Senior Civil Servant (SCS) staff are expected to aim for closer to 60% of the time at an office or non-home based location over the accounting period.

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : SCS Recruitment Team
• Email : scscandidate.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : scscandidate.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the recruitment principles, and wish to make a complaint, then you should contact in the first instance scsrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages at: https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/contact-us/

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