# Head of Priority Projects

**Company**: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
**Location**: Bristol, South West
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: GBP 72,686 - 78,269 per year
**Category**: Policy & Public Affairs
**Industry**: Government & Public Sector

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## Description

We are the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). Local government is central to delivering the Prime Minister's agenda: driving growth in every part of the country, improving public services and creating stronger, more resilient places.

The Projects Unit sits within the Local Government Reform and Strategy Directorate and works across the Group to turn these ambitions into action. The Projects Unit is a team of nine policy and project professionals who bring expertise, pace and additional capacity to the Group's highest-priority work. Team members are deployed to well-defined, time-limited projects driven by ministerial and Executive Team priorities, helping teams move quickly from complex challenges to high-quality advice and delivery.

As the Head of Priority Projects, you will lead this friendly, collaborative and high-performing team, while also shaping priorities within the Local Government, Growth and Communities Strategy team. This is a role at the heart of the Group, with the opportunity to work across organisational boundaries on issues that matter to ministers, councils and communities.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead the Projects Unit, setting direction and sustaining a strong sense of team across colleagues based around the country and deployed to a diverse portfolio of work.

- Build trusted relationships with Directors, maintaining a clear view of priorities across the Group and making timely, evidence-based decisions about where the team can add greatest value.

- Continue to strengthen the Unit's project offer, ensuring that work is well scoped, teams are supported throughout delivery, learning is captured and handovers leave a lasting impact.

- Help shape and deliver the Group's cross-cutting strategy, bringing teams together around shared outcomes and ensuring that local government's contribution is reflected in the department's and the Prime Minister's priorities.

- Lead high-profile commissions and time-limited projects, respond confidently to emerging issues, and provide senior leaders with clear strategic advice, coordination and grip.

**Person Specification:**

- Leadership: an empowering leader who brings out the best in their team and fosters a culture of trust and collaboration.

- Delivering at pace: organised and strategic, able to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work at pace.

- Communicating and influencing: a strong communicator, confident in engaging with senior stakeholders and articulating complex issues clearly.

- Seeing the big picture: skilled at working across boundaries and forging effective partnerships within and beyond the organisation to deliver cross-cutting priorities.

- Experience: a self-starter with a track record of driving high-profile work forward across multiple stakeholders.

**Benefits:**

- Salary: £72,686 - £78,269 per year

- Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme: £21,057 contribution

- Flexible working arrangements

- MyLifestyle Staff Benefits Scheme

- Childcare Vouchers

- Cycle to Work Schemes

## Skills

### Required
- leadership
- strategic thinking
- communication
- influencing
- project management

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