This position can be based in any Acas office with an element of working from home. Regular travel to London will be required for this role. Please be aware that this role can only be worked in GB and not overseas. You will be asked to express a location preference during the application process. Informal hybrid arrangements are available and the balance between home and workplace working is agreed with the line manager to achieve the right balance between collaboration, in-person engagement and flexibility.

This is a key role which brings detail to the big picture. You will be naturally efficient and organised relishing creating and maintaining order. You will thrive on being tapped into whats happening in a fast-paced environment as comfortable running a large meeting as you are creating a new reporting template.

This role is all about coordinating, supporting and facilitating others providing processes, plans and frameworks that reflect a range of contributions and then supporting others to achieve those plans. You will build and nurture strong relationships to support colleagues to collaborate, prioritise and then keep to deadline. By drawing together multiple inputs into coherent, quality commissions you will ensure clarity of direction and shared understanding.

You will ensure the smooth running of the Strategy and External Affairs Directorate by supporting the Director to oversee Directorate corporate responsibilities including people, culture, finance, compliance and administration. This role is particularly important as the Directorate is relatively new so existing good systems need to be maintained, processes created where there are gaps, and new strengths built in Directorate culture. 

You will support strategic projects this could be new areas Acas is developing that need scoping, shaping and project initiation and development before they are handed over to a permanent team; supporting strategy development; reviews of the organisational strategy; or tracking progress against the strategy. 

• Planning and prioritisation: Manage and co-ordinate cross-Acas plans of external affairs, communications and strategy activity. Accountable for monitoring and supporting progress against our plans and ensuring dependencies are managed and change is controlled.
• Directorate management and support: accountable for running the business planning process and tracking milestones through the year; ensuring robust budget management including profiling, controlling expenditure and problem-solving; maintaining the Directorate risk register; oversight of meeting management; compiling compliance returns; Directorate business continuity lead; setting a culture of customer service in the small team. 
• Directorate culture: support engagement by curating engaging meetings, organising and facilitating away days, managing the annual people survey action plan. Manage confidential activity, including the reward and recognition scheme for the directorate and staff training reports. 
• Strategic projects: Accountable for supporting strategic projects as needed particularly producing timely high-quality materials to scope, shape and define projects. This may include: project initiation and scoping, desk research, organising 'discoveries' to marshal internal stakeholder views on the topic and producing recommendations of next steps for Acas. This could relate to supporting strategy development, reviewing the strategy or tracking progress against the strategic ambitions. 
• Set up new processes across all accountabilities as needed and pursue continuous improvement.
• Potential for line management responsibility.

As a member of Strategy and External Affairs Directorate you will: 

• Promote diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity, respecting difference and external experience.
• Be self-aware and role-model continuous self-learning and development.  
• Collaborate with others to achieve the goals of ACAS together.
• Effectively manage resources and budget where required.
• Work flexibly and collaboratively with those across the Directorate and wider Acas.
• Live the Acas values.

Who we are

Acas exists to make working life better for everyone in Britain. We are the experts in workplace matters, were impartial, so were not on anyones side. That means were working for everyone to help prevent and resolve workplace issues.

Acas helps employers and employees by providing information, advice, training, conciliation and other services that prevent or resolve workplace problems.

Acas has been recognised for its Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace from the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion awards  Disability Confident Highly Commended; Pay Gap award winner and Overall winner for public sector organisations. Acas is committed to providing services and developing policies which embrace diversity, promote equality of opportunity and eliminate unlawful discrimination.

Experience

Essential:

• Planning and prioritising experience of project/programme planning, and/or supporting teams to plan. Working knowledge of project and programme management documentation and processes. 
• Collaboration and co-ordination experience organising multi-disciplinary teams from beyond line management and ensuring they work together collaboratively towards a unified goal. 
• Assurance and budget experience of robust budget management, risk registers and compliance activity. 
• Stakeholder management - working with diverse group of stakeholders with different styles and objectives. 
• Written and oral communications writing succinct, engaging reports and papers to senior leadership, particularly experience producing engaging slides through text and graphic content. 
• Data and reporting experience co-ordinating across several teams and managing complex information returns from multiple contributors, synthesising it and presenting it in an accessible way that tells a clear story. Ideally including monitoring and reporting on success measures/KPIs.

Desirable: 

• Communications or policy experience experience gained in a team/Directorate working on one or more of: communications, external affairs, policy, strategy, research.

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

• Delivering at Pace
• Changing and Improving
• Working Together

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Delivering at Pace

Alongside your salary of £43,019, Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service contributes £12,462 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Were big believers in rewarding people for the amazing work they do, take a look at some of the fantastic benefits we offer:

• Learning and Development;
• Health and wellbeing;
• Pension scheme;
• Cycle to work scheme;
• Childcare schemes;
• Interest free season ticket loans;
• Volunteering opportunities.

Could you ask for any more?

Youll have access to a Life style website, were youll be able to grab savings over a wide range of products from holidays to your weekly shop.

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