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Policy Advisor (Legal) (Contract)
Location: London Country: UK Rate: £400 - 450 per day
Policy Advisor (legal) required to work with a government department. This is an initial 4-month contract (with options to extend), paying £450 per day, inside IR35, hybrid working (1-2 days per week onsite in London).
Active SC clearance is required for this role. Main Responsibilities - Advising on legal policy matters for cases, processes, and emerging issues.
- Providing policy input to the development and operation; ensuring that the policy develops to meet departmental needs, is well understood, coordinated across Whitehall and is correctly applied by the team.
- Building a strong relationship with policy colleagues, ensuring that the policies of all Departments are aligned.
- Analysing a broad range of complex inputs and preparation of clear advice to prepare ministerial, legal, and senior advice and briefings as per the strategic, operational and legal direction required within the Directorate.
- Engaging with the rest of the policy team, the Senior Leadership team, including the relevant Deputy-Directors, so they are aware of issues and can provide senior input to decision-making.
- Identifying pertinent information from case working and eligibility files to clearly articulate how and why decisions were made regarding an applicant's case and across wider cohorts.
- Ensuring good information management practices.
- Producing briefings for current issues such as high-profile individual cases.
- Liaising with cross-government representatives on resettlement legal issues
- Keeping track of key deadlines as part of a busy portfolio and prioritising within this
- Deputising for the G7 Assistant Head as and when required.
- Line Managing Policy Support Officers as needed.
Essential Experience Required- Experienced in document redaction.
- Law degree
- Civil litigation - disclosure & redaction.
- Communication/stakeholder management skills.
- Policy or secretariat work within HMG.
Please apply should you meet the above criteria.
Posted Date: 22 Mar 2024
Reference: JS000000000000402
Employment Business: Keystream Group Limited
Contact: James Le Tissier