Euston Programme Coordinator

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Are you an organised individual who enjoys variety in their work?
Would you embrace the opportunity to work in a high-profile role, interacting with a range of contacts within and outside Government?
If so, we have an exciting opportunity available to join our team and would love to hear from you!, As Euston Programme Coordinator, you will join the Major Rail Projects Group (MRPG), which brings together two of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in the country – High Speed 2 (HS2), and Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR), as well as planning future rail infrastructure projects.
Following the Prime Minister’s announcement of Network North, which confirmed that HS2 will continue to Euston in Central London as planned, work has commenced on developing an affordable and deliverable scheme for the HS2 Euston Station, which will focus on how we can partner with the private sector to capture benefits for customers and taxpayers. In parallel, the area around the station will be redeveloped and the planned Redevelopment of Euston Conventional Station will continue.
As Euston Programme Coordinator, you will be a key part of the team delivering this transport infrastructure, alongside the development of the area with new offices and homes. The programme requires significant levels of activity to ensure project teams and others within and outside Government work together effectively to a clear strategy.
Your role will involve working collaboratively across the Department for Transport (DfT) and other organisations to ensure that the programme delivers the Government’s requirements. This will include managing risks and milestones, providing high quality briefing to decision-makers, drafting important correspondence and coordinating engagement of a wide range of stakeholders in a complex environment.
You will join a highly supportive team, and you will be encouraged to develop expertise through on the job training and structured learning and development opportunities.
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The duties and responsibilities of this role broadly fall under two main categories - programme management; and communications and stakeholder engagement.
These key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
+ Working alongside communications colleagues to ensure the best representation of the programme is given to the public and stakeholders.
+ Managing key meetings and governance Boards, including producing and presenting accurate and concise briefings ahead of key meetings, ensuring that the most important information and messages are clear and that you have consulted colleagues in advance.
+ Managing risks and milestones of the Euston programme, including supporting the team to update plans and schedules and managing the risk register in collaboration with project sponsors.
+ Coordinating DfT’s response to assurance activities, including managing team preparation for reviews of the Euston programme by the Public Accounts Committee, the Transport Select Committee, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, the National Audit Office and others.
+ Supporting the maintenance and improvement of the Euston team’s systems through creating and maintaining logs and trackers for correspondence, actions and recommendations, coordinating input from across the team, escalating as needed and provide updates at team meetings as required.
For further information, please see the attached Role Profile., This role is available to individuals who wish to be spending their office time in London, Leeds or Birmingham, and we would encourage our team to work from Euston offices regularly, alongside our partners.
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.

Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Delivering at Pace
+ Working Together
+ Communicating and Influencing
+ Seeing the Big Picture, + Ability to organise and coordinate engagement of a wide range of stakeholders in a complex environment.
+ Excellent written and verbal communication, providing high quality briefings to senior leaders.
+ Identifying and mitigating risks and issues, and reporting progress on actions, milestones and risks to senior leaders.
The sift is due to take place from 06/06/2024.
Interviews are likely to be held from 20/06/2024.
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.
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.
For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.
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.

Security
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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You will be an articulate communicator, both verbally and in writing, who is able to provide high quality briefing to senior leaders. You will have excellent interpersonal skills, enabling you to confidently collaborate with a range of people both within and external to the Department.
You will have a natural curiosity in your approach and the confidence to work on your initiative when required. You will be a proactive and organised individual, who thrives on having variety in your work and feels comfortable when faced with ambiguity.
You will have experience of managing a portfolio of tasks in an organised manner, confidently meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.
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