Building Safety Fund Interventions Adviser

Job summary

Are you a natural communicator with the ability to tailor your communication approach to suit your audience? Do you bring strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise your work?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for an SEO Building Safety Fund Interventions Adviser to join our team at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and we'd love to hear from you!

The high rise building remediation programme covers the Building Safety Fund (BSF) and Aluminium Composite Materials (ACM) programme and exists to improve the lives of leaseholders and residents, who live in potentially unsafe homes. The programme continues to evolve as we approach a substantial phase of delivery ahead of formal programme closure and this will require flexibility and adaptability.

The interventions team is responsible for monitoring pace and assuring remediation delivery plans as well as working with partner teams to resolve a range of issues to help ensure buildings progress at pace and in line with agreed policy. The team does this by identifying and actioning system and building interventions. These are often complex construction projects and require a technical, project and policy based background in order to be able to work with delivery partners to quickly identify and resolve issues.

The Programme is part of the wider remediation portfolio and will require close working and collaboration with colleagues from across the Buildings, Fire and Resilience Group as well as with our partner teams at the Greater London Authority and Homes England. This is a multi-agency team effort.

This role is within Remediation Programme Funds and Interventions Directorate in the Buildings, Fire and Resilience Group and requires a strong operational and delivery focus as well as a technical understanding of building remediation to ensure progress is being made, issues are well understood and being resolved.

You and your team will collaborate closely with our partner teams to understand system and building specific blockers and to implement targeted interventions to help ensure buildings are able to progress to successful remediation effectively and in the timeliest way possible. You will be responsible for understanding progress, key challenges preventing delivery and for the briefing of ministers and senior stakeholders.

This is an opportunity to work on a high-profile programme which is making a difference to the lives of thousands of residents and leaseholders across the country.

Job description

As the Building Safety Fund Interventions Adviser your responsibilities will include:

• Help to shape our interventions approach across slow moving and stuck buildings
• Lead individual interventions to help move buildings through the process
• Work collaboratively with delivery partners to identify where we can be most effective
• Lead evaluation on where our interventions have been most effective
• Draft ministerial briefings and updates
• Task management of an HEO within the team

Person specification

• An excellent collaborator, who can work in partnership with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, at different levels.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to multi-task, work flexibly, prioritise, and work to differing deadlines.
• Ability to take initiative and seek out innovative opportunities to deliver effective change in a fast paced and dynamic environment.
• Ability to work at pace and respond flexibly to competing and changing demands, prioritizing, and managing your workload efficiently, identifying and mitigating risks to ensure effective delivery.
• Excellent decision making and judgement skills, and ability to synthesise complex issues effectively.
• A confident communicator who can engage with and influence diverse stakeholders, including senior colleagues and Ministers, with an ability to produce high-quality and clear written advice and briefings.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £41,890, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government contributes £12,135 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.At MHCLG we offer many benefits that range from tailored career pathways and flexible working to MyLifestyle Childcare Voucher and Cycle to Work Schemes. For more information, please click here.

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 (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

Application and Selection
The application process will be split into 2 stages, testing the following Success Profiles:

Behaviours , Experience , Strengths

Please ensure your CV does not contain any personally identifiable information.

Note: We do not consider direct CV applications. All applications must be submitted via the provided application link.

Important: Your CV and Cover Letter must be merged into a single document before uploading.

Stage 1: Sift (CV & Cover Letter)

Experience: Your covering letter should be no more than 1 page.

In your CV and covering letter, please include:
a. why you are interested in the role;
b. how you meet the essential skills and experience required

Stage 2: Interview

• Behaviours: Making Effective Decisions, Working Together, Delivering at Pace

• Strengths: The strength-based questions will require natural responses from the candidates.

Sift and Interview Dates

Sifting is envisaged to take place 12/03/2026

Interviews are currently being held remotely via videocall. This could be subject to change.

How We Recruit

Find out more about our recruitment processes here.

• Applying

• Sifting

• Interview

• Interview Results & Feedback

• Reserve List

• Near Miss

• Civil Service Grades

• We are a DCS, RIS & GPTWV employer

• Reasonable Adjustments

How to Apply

Find out everything you need to know before applying here.

You must review the following information from the MHCLG Career's Site before submitting your application. This step is essential to ensure your eligibility for the role and that your application is completed correctly.

• Security Clearance Requirements

• Civil Service Nationality Requirements

• Right to Work

• Artificial Intelligence

• Civil Service Code and Recruitment Principles

• CV Declaration

• Sponsorships

• Salary and Grade

• Existing Civil Servants

• Conflict of Interest

• Location and Flexible Working

• Fixed Term Contracts

• Internal Fraud Database - Internal Fraud Register

• Appeals and Complaints

• Conflict of Interest

Security Clearance Requirements

National Office:

London Office: + CTC

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).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) (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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) 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 (opens in a new window).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.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Joe Smith
• Email : joe.smith@communities.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitment@communities.gov.uk

Further information

If you are unsure about any part of the process or require additional information about the post to enable you to progress your application, you should speak to the Resourcing team - recruitment@communities.gov.uk. Candidates can appeal at any stage of the recruitment process if they believe there has been:

a procedural irregularity

an infringement of the Civil Service equal opportunities policy

exceptional circumstances which were not notified to the interview panel which might have affected performance on the day.

It is important to note that these are appeals about the process not the decision. In the first instance, an appeal should be directed to the MHCLG Resourcing Hub at recruitment@communities.gov.uk.

If the MHCLG Resourcing Hub is unable to satisfactorily resolve your complaint, you may contact put your complaint in writing to the Civil Service Commission, Room G8,1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ or by email to: info@csc.gov.uk

Attachments

1a. MHCLG Candidate Pack Opens in new window (pdf, 834kB)1b. Candidate Guidance Opens in new window (pdf, 355kB)1c. Success Profiles Candidate information Opens in new window (pdf, 936kB)Darlington Economic Campus Career Pathways Opens in new window (pdf, 452kB)