Details
Reference number
425166
Salary
£40,415 - £48,620
National: £40,415 - £44,480; London: £44,195 - £48,620 (pro rata for part-time working)
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
GBP
Job grade
Senior Executive Officer
Contract type
Fixed term
Loan
Length of employment
24 months
Business area
DSIT - Digital, Technologies and Telecoms - Cyber Security & Digital Identity
Type of role
Policy
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time
Number of jobs available
3
Contents
* Location
* About the job
* Benefits
* Things you need to know
* Apply and further information
Location
Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford
About the job
Job summary
DSIT
At DSIT we're all about improving people's lives by maximising the potential of science & technology.
We accelerate innovation, investment and productivity through world-class science, research and development.
We use technology for good by ensuring new and existing technologies are safely developed and deployed across the UK, with the benefits more widely shared.
We are driving forward a modern digital government which gives citizens a more satisfying experience and their time back.
We do all this to enable the Government's 5 national missions: kickstarting economic growth, making Britain a clean energy superpower, taking back our streets, breaking down barriers to opportunity and building an NHS fit for the future.
Above all, we focus on improving people's lives. Whether it's researching new treatments for disease, developing better batteries, reducing burdens through better public services, keeping children safe online, and much more, outcomes for citizens are at the heart of what we do.
Our Inclusive Environment
We offer flexible working benefits, employee well-being support and a great pension. We are enormously proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We support candidates with adjustments throughout our recruitment process. Information about disability confidence and just some examples of the adjustments that you can request can be found in the reasonable adjustment section below.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.
Find Out More
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Job description
Digital identities will make it possible for people to prove things about themselves in a secure and trusted way without showing paper documents. Done right, they will be a vital building block for the economy of the future and unlock hundreds of millions of pounds of economic growth in the UK economy.
The Office for Digital Identities and Attributes in DSIT is enabling the widespread use of digital identities across the UK economy.
You will join a friendly, diverse and multi-functional team of over 30 people, working together to create a framework of standards, governance and legislation so that people and businesses know what a good digital identity looks like.
This role will suit a confident and strategic policy professional who thrives on complex and ambiguous policy challenges, is able to build strong relationships, and can be assertive in cross government engagement.
Person specification
Key responsibilities
There are 3 roles available:
Role 1 - Strategy and Policy Team
* Develop and deliver external communications to industry stakeholders and the general public on OfDIA's digital identity programme to build trust and confidence in digital identities.
* Work with cross-department and cross-government colleagues to design communications strategy and alignment.
* Manage OfDIA's 'Enabling Digital Identity' blog and GOV.UK publishing strategy.
* Support on strategic briefings and parliamentary business.
* Work with Grade 7 lead to develop and prepare the OfDIA Annual Report for publication.
* Design and manage various OfDIA research projects such as the digital identity market analysis and inclusion monitoring report for certified digital identity services.
* Lead on policy development in relevant areas as required.
Role 2 - Standards and Adoption Team
* Support the development of the digital identity sector, both as a high potential technology sector, and a growth enabler across the wider economy.
* Collaborate and influence across government and regulators to help remove barriers to the acceptance of digital identity services while maintaining necessary guardrails. This could involve supporting legislative, regulatory or guidance changes.
* Maintaining the broad expertise and network to support progress across diverse sectors such as age restricted products (e.g. alcohol, gambling and tobacco sales), money laundering, property, travel or voter ID.
* Manage cross-government groups to support consistency and information sharing on similar challenges.
* Lead on devolution issues for the adoption of digital identities, where different parts of the UK have different requirements.
* Supporting industry engagement and relationships with the digital identity sector to understand priorities and challenges.
* Lead on policy development in relevant areas as required.
Role 3 - Security and Children's Identity
* Engage across Whitehall to identify relevant data sets that might support a digital identity for children, and examine the viability of digitalisation of these data sets within required timeframes.
* Map and understand relevant use cases for children's digital identities as children move from 13-18 and as the use cases evolve according to the child's age.
* Examine the possibility of alternative ways of proving children's identity through e.g. vouching – including examination of whether such approaches provide the required level of robustness and security against the proposed use cases for the digital ID.
* It is possible that this work will need to be delivered quickly, so you may be required to work in a fast-paced environment with equities spanning a range of requirements across departments, including provisions for child identities online to ensure the effective implementation of age assurance requirements for children under the Online Safety Act.
Essential Criteria:
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to express complex information clearly and tailor content to the appropriate audience.
Strong networking and engagement skills to build and maintain collaborative and positive relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
Demonstrable experience of working in a fast-paced environment, managing competing priorities and delivering high-quality work to challenging timelines.
Ability to evaluate complex information, including data, and use it to develop evidence-based policy, becoming a subject matter expert.
Desirable Criteria:
Experience / understanding of digital identity policy.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Communicating and Influencing
* Seeing the Big Picture
* Delivering at Pace
* Making Effective Decisions
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £40,415, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology contributes £11,708 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.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Please use your personal statement (in no more than 750 words) to evidence your suitability for this role with reference to the essential requirements.
Applications will be sifted on CV and Personal Statement.
In the event of a large number of applicants, applications will be sifted on the personal statement.
Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.
The interview will consist of behaviour and strength-based questions.
To help you to prepare for your interview, for this campaign behaviour questions will be shared in advance of interview if you are successful at sift stage. These questions should be treated as confidential and should not be shared.
The interview panel may ask you other questions which will not be shared with you in advance, including any follow-up questions, and other elements listed in the job advert, for example, experience, abilities, strengths and technical skills. The panel will be looking for examples of your own work, experience, and ability so do try and avoid using AI written answers without any human oversight.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Sift and interview dates
Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
Further Information
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the Demystifying Vetting website.
Please be aware the levels of national security clearance are changing which may impact on the level needed for this role by the time of appointment. All efforts will be made to keep candidates informed of any changes and what that will mean in terms of vetting criteria. For more information please See our vetting charter
Existing Civil Servants and applicants from accredited NDPBs are eligible to apply,and can be considered on loan basis (Civil Servants) or secondment (accredited NDPBs). Prior agreement to be released on a loan basis must be obtained before commencing the application process. In the case of Civil Servants, the terms of the loan will be agreed between the home and host department and the Civil Servant. This includes grade on return.
Reasonable Adjustment
We are proud to be a disability confident leader and we welcome applications from disabled candidates and candidates with long-term conditions.
Information about the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and some examples of adjustments that we offer to disabled candidates and candidates with long-term health conditions during our recruitment process can be found in our DSIT Candidate Guidance. A DSIT Plain Text Version of the guidance is also available.
We encourage candidates to discuss their adjustment needs by emailing the job contact which can be found under the contact point for applicants section.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
A location based reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for 12 months. Should another role become available within that period you may be offered this position.
Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.
Any move to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare; for further information visit the Childcare Choices website.
DSIT does not normally offer full home working (i.e. working at home); but we do offer a variety of flexible working options (including occasionally working from home).
DSIT cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign.
DSIT holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service /Disclosure Scotland on your behalf.
However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre- stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email
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
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check .
See our vetting charter .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
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)
* 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
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
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.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .
Apply and further information
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
* Name : Rebecca Mulvany
* Email :
Recruitment team
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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. 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: Click here to visit Civil Service Commission/Complaints.