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Strategic Policy Advisor , HEO, Perm, Liverpool, London, Newport
Charity Commission —Bootle
- £35,384 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Analysis skills
- Project management
- Presentation skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
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People Advisor (maternity cover) 9 months FTC (Full Time)
Delamere Health Ltd —Northwich
- £30,000 - £35,000 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
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Senior Strategic Policy Advisor, SEO, FTC 12 months, Liverpool, Newport, London.
Charity Commission —Bootle
- £44,027 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Analysis skills
- Project management
- Presentation skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
13d
Customer Service Advisor - Liverpool
HM Revenue and Customs —Liverpool
- £28,016 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Customer service
- Basic maths
- No experience needed
- Annual leave
- Work from home
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Part Time Customer Care Advisor
Brakes —Deeside
- £14,996 a year
- Part-time
- Sales
- Customer service
- Restaurant
- Employee discount
6d
People Partner
Pinnacle Group —Liverpool
- £45,000 - £50,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Analysis skills
- Human resources
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
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Assistant Team Manager
Wrexham County Borough Council —Wrexham
- £46,142 - £49,282 a year
- Hybrid work
- Bilingual
- English
- IT
- Relocation assistance
- Annual leave
9d
Employment Advisor
Employment —Liverpool
- Up to £30,148 a year
- Full-time
- Sales
- Customer service
- Travel
Macmillan Information and Support Assistant
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust —Upton
- £28,392 - £31,157 a year
- Part-time
- Organisational skills
- Communication skills
12d
Community Partnerships Manager
Chester Zoo —Chester
- £40,430 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Supervising experience
- Project management
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
2h
Customer Service Advisor
One Sure Insurance —Deeside
- £24,784.50 a year
- Full-time
- Customer service
- English
- Maths
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
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New Product Development (NPD) Advisor
Morrisons —Deeside
- Weekend availability
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
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Senior School Quality Assurance Officer
HALTON BOROUGH COUNCIL —Halton
- £60,269 - £64,639 a year
- Monday to Friday
- Analysis skills
- Travel
- Leadership
- Free parking
- Employee assistance programme
Senior Employee Relations Advisor
PHOENIX Medical Supplies Limited —Borough of Halton
- Up to £45,000 a year
- Monday to Friday
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Office
- In-person
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
Customer Service Advisor (20 hours per week - Term Time only)
Liverpool John Moores University —Liverpool
- £24,685 - £26,093 a year
- Part-time
- Customer service
- Microsoft Office
- School
- Annual leave
2d
Assistant Director, Strategic Communications, Grade 6, Permanent, Liverpool / London
Charity Commission —Bootle
- £68,935 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Office
- Analysis skills
- Project management
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
7d
Employee Relations Partner
Sysco —Burtonwood
- Full-time
- Remote
- Analysis skills
- Travel
- Employee discount
6d
Sales Advisor - Cheshire Oaks
Whittard of Chelsea —Ellesmere Port
- £12.74 - £13.67 an hour
- Weekend availability
- Communication skills
- Store discount
- Employee discount
Customer Service Advisor
Chemist4U —Skelmersdale
- £26,266.50 a year
- Full-time
- Customer service
- Organisational skills
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
HR Advisor
CEVALogistics —Speke
- Part-time
- Human resources
- Organisational skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
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Strategic Policy Advisor , HEO, Perm, Liverpool, London, Newport

Charity Commission -
Bootle

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Job details

Permanent | Part-time | Full-time
£35,384 a year
13 days ago

Benefits

Season ticket loan
Annual leave
Company pension
Discounted gym membership
Employee discount

Qualifications

Analysis skills
Project management
Presentation skills
Contracts
Communication skills

Full job description

Details

Reference number

466309

Salary

£35,384

A London weighting allowance of £4245 is payable in addition to the advertised salary range.

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

CC - Communications and Policy

Type of role

Policy

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time, Compressed hours

Number of jobs available

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About the job
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Location

Bootle, North West England, L20 7HS : Newport, Wales, NP10 8XG : City of Westminster, London (region), SW1H 9AJ

About the job

Job summary

Are you able to see the big picture across Government?
Do you have an inquisitive and analytical mind?
Do you want to lead projects?

The Communications & Policy Directorate is at the centre of delivering the Commissions purpose and strategy. The directorate leads the organisations efforts to engage with charity trustees, the public and stakeholders to support those running charities, to help the sector deliver positive outcomes and build public trust in charity. The policy function ensures that the Commission spots and understands key policy challenges and how they impact on the public, charities and our regulatory priorities. We develop and lead clear, consistent and effective policy interventions in response. This includes understanding casework risks, undertaking stakeholder engagement and communicating new policy positions, and supporting parliamentary or legislative activity. We undertake a significant programme of horizon scanning in order to ensure we are an agile and forward-thinking regulator.

Role Purpose: Strategic Policy Advisor.

This roles is based in a small but busy strategic policy team. We undertake both proactive and reactive policy work on the full breadth of challenges arising in charity governance and from the changing regulatory landscape. Recently this has included addressing charity use of AI, examining challenges with banking services for charities, and considering the implications of campaigning rules and new legislation on charities. You will have the opportunity to lead a diverse and exciting portfolio of end-to-end policy development projects, that could include regulation of social housing charities, options to understand and reduce barriers to individuals becoming charity trustees and how we engage with and support new trustees more effectively.

Strategic policy advisors are expected to work independently to build stakeholder relations, analysis and liaising with Government on their proposed legislative plans where they impact charities, and plan various policy interventions. The postholders will have substantial autonomy, ensuring that senior Commission staff are appropriately briefed on developments. They will provide advice and guidance to senior colleagues, including the CEO, on strategic policy interventions and work collaboratively and constructively with senior colleagues from across the organisation.

Job description

Key responsibilities:

This is a role leading on a variety of policy development. The core responsibilities include:

Undertake policy development programmes in line with best practice. This will include scoping projects, evaluating and recommending options, and overseeing implementation, including products such as new guidance or communications to charities.
Developing and delivering stakeholder management and engagement strategies with external stakeholders and government departments.
Horizon-scanning and spotting issues as they develop.
Briefing senior staff and providing comprehensive and balanced advice
Feeding into a broad range of the Commissions change and improvement projects by providing a policy perspective

You will develop an excellent understanding of the Commissions remit and strategic purpose and the environment (political, legal and economic) in which we operate, and embed this in your policy proposals and recommendations.

Person specification

Ability:

Ability to develop exciting and forward thinking policy
Relationship management and influencing (with internal and external stakeholders)
Excellent, succinct and persuasive written and oral communication skills
Ability to take the initiative in identifying and dealing with issues
A demonstrable ability to work flexibly and effectively under pressure, manage multiple targets and deadlines
Proven skills in providing advice developed by gathering information from a range of internal and external sources
Strong analytical skills and sound judgement to evaluate complex information to support decisions
Ability to plan, prioritise and work collaboratively at all levels to achieve demanding targets and deadlines and good project management skills, with a track record of delivering projects to agreed milestones and targets.

Experience:

Experience of policy development
Experiencing in working closely with senior stakeholders
Experience of gathering evidence to successfully inform a proposal, an assessment of a problem, or of conducting horizon scanning
Management of a project or initiative, a research programme, or a contract

Technical:

Knowledge of the techniques, approaches or skills associated with policy
Strong knowledge and interest in public policy issues and current affairs.
Knowledge of either the charity sector, regulation or public sector policy making would be desirable, OR a proven ability to come up to speed quickly with understanding a sectors legal, regulatory and policy environment

Behaviours

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

Seeing the Big Picture
Making Effective Decisions
Communicating and Influencing
Working Together
Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,384, Charity Commission contributes £10,250 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

This is your chance to make a contribution that really matters and to make an impact in an organisation where your voice will be heard and your hard work noticed.

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We operate a flexible hybrid working policy where office attendance is combined with homeworking days dependent on role and corporate requirements.

We recognise everyone as an individual, accepting people for who they are and treating everyone fairly. We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring from all backgrounds and we aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We champion inclusion and wellbeing, aiming to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and has a sense of belonging.

We do not discriminate on the basis of culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

We offer access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme (employer contributions of 28.97%), far more than in the private sector, and a flexible, family-friendly environment. Additionally, you can look forward to other great benefits via our Perkbox and Edenred schemes. These include everything from an interest-free season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan scheme and bicycle loan (after two months) to discounts on gym membership, cinema tickets and restaurants. Please see the attached Charity Commission benefits document.

A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30 days per year. You have the opportunity to purchase up to an additional 5 days annual leave (pro rata) per year, requests must be submitted in the February of that year.

The Charity Commissions operational ambition is to realise the Commissions values of being an expert regulator that is fair, balanced, and independent, which works in a way that is supportive, collaborative, and innovative to achieve our ambitions. We want to develop our capability to regulate charities to realise this goal and meet our statutory and public duties to ensure that charity in England and Wales can deliver maximum benefit to society in a way that upholds its reputation in the eyes of the public.

Work at the Charity Commission and youll make a difference every day to:

The 170,000 charities of all shapes and sizes that we regulate across England and Wales.
The trustees we partner with and advise.
The people and causes that benefit from the £10bn generously donated each year by the public.

Find out more about working for us here.

To note: Any move across the Civil Service on or after 4 October 2018 may have implications on an employees ability to carry on claiming childcare vouchers.

Things you need to know

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.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

As part of the application process as a minimum you are asked to complete a CV and statement of suitability (up to 750 words).

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

At interview we will assess the following Behaviours at interview alongside strengths and experience :

Seeing the big Picture
Making Effective Decisions
Communicating and Influencing
Working Together
Delivering at Pace

Interview Arrangements

Interviews will be taking via MS Teams

The sift is due to take place on 02/07/2026

Interviews will be held on 14th and 15th July 2026

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.

At the interview, the panel can then probe further and ask applicants to provide further specific examples that show how they best demonstrate their skills.

We reserve the right to raise the score required at any stage of the process to manage numbers.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment.

Behaviours:

The distinguishing Behaviours (the required skills, knowledge, and behaviours) for this role are set out in the Civil Service Behaviours Framework 2018 (Success Profiles - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)) and should be referred to when making this application.

You are required, under the Behaviours approach, to describe how you have dealt with a specific situation.

You must give evidence of your knowledge, skills, and behaviours and how you have applied this, such as what you did or said and how you interacted with other people.

When you are giving your examples, do not spend too many words on description and background information. Avoid using general or unspecific statements. Instead say what the situation was, what you did, what your thought process was and what was the result.

Reasonable Adjustment:

If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled persons, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

Contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the Assistance required section in the Additional requirements page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if youre deaf, a Language Service Professional.

Reserve Lists

If we have more successful candidates than available vacancies, we will hold a 12-month reserve list as standard.

During that time, we may use the list to fill the same, or similar roles with closely matching essential criteria, without further testing of merit. Any appointments from the Reserve list will be made in strict merit order.

Applying

We recognise everyone as an individual, accepting people for who they are and treating everyone fairly

All applications for these vacancies must be made online. There are limited exceptions to this. Paper applications will only be considered if you have a disability that will prevent you from applying online. If this is the case, please email [email protected]

Once you have submitted your application it cannot be amended; only submit your application when you have completely finished and answered all the relevant questions.

Please note that late applications will not be accepted.

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

Current Civil Servants (all contract types) will need to ensure that they are still employed as a civil servant at the point of starting in the relevant new post. If their contract ends (e.g. end of FTA contract or resignation) at any point during the recruitment/onboarding process for the advertised role, they will no longer be eligible and may be withdrawn.

Feedback

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

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.

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).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : Holly Riley
Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

Email : [email protected]

Further information

The Charity Commissions recruitment processes are underpinned by the Civil Service Commissioners Recruitment Principles, which outlines that selection for appointment is made on merit based on fair and open competition.
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the values in the Civil Service Code and/or if you feel the recruitment has been conducted in such a way that conflicts with the Civil Service Commissioners Recruitment Principles, and wish to make a complaint, then you should contact in the first instance [email protected].
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 page here.

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