Strategy and Delivery Advisor - AI Security Institute

Job summary

The AI Security Institute's Research Unit is looking for a motivated and highly organised Delivery Advisor to join AISI's Core Technology Team, working within the Strategy & Delivery function. We are looking for an exceptional candidate to help technical teams deliver critical research-oriented software and infrastructure.

This is a chance to work close to cutting-edge AI safety research with real-world impact. You will regularly work with engineers, researchers, operations colleagues, external partners, and senior government stakeholders, helping turn operational detail into clear decisions and making sure critical work keeps moving.

We are looking for someone who can support delivery and operational domains end-to-end: tracking activity, coordinating stakeholders, analysing usage data, improving internal processes, and building automation workflows.

Job description

AISI's Core Technology Team builds tools and infrastructure used across our research work. This includes projects like Inspect, our open-source evaluation framework, systems for running evaluations at scale, model-hosting, and supporting AISI's infrastructure for academic studies, and research projects.

The Strategy & Delivery function helps the Core Technology Team operate effectively across product delivery, external engagements, and technical operations. The function exists to make sure technical teams can focus on high-value engineering and research, while the surrounding delivery, reporting, coordination, and operational work is handled reliably.

As a Strategy & Delivery Advisor working with CoreTech, you will:

• Support delivery around evaluation infrastructure, model-hosting, compute access, or custom research tooling, working closely with engineers and researchers.

• Analyse usage, spend, allocation, or activity data from multiple systems and turn it into a clear readout for senior stakeholders.

• Improve the operating rhythm around a technical workstream, including planning, stakeholder updates, risk tracking, documentation, and follow-up.

• Build or configure lightweight automation for recurring delivery work, such as intake workflows, dashboard updates, stakeholder readouts, document generation, or project-management integrations.

Person specification

You will be a good fit if you have some of the following skills, experience, and attitudes:

• You are genuinely motivated by the current state of AI and want to work close to high-impact research in this field.

• You execute reliably and at pace. You finish what you start, own the detail across multiple concurrent threads, and do not let things drop.

• You communicate clearly in writing and verbally, especially when explaining technical or operational issues to senior non-specialist audiences.

• You engage readily with technical detail, asking good questions of engineers and infrastructure teams and developing enough context to make informed decisions.

• You have a builder mindset: when work is repetitive, you look for ways to simplify, automate, or remove it rather than just running the same manual process indefinitely.

Behaviours

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

• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £40,415, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology contributes £11,708 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

• A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
• Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
• An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
• Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
• A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need.

Office attendance

The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home-based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.

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

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement.

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

Please use your personal statement (in no more than 250 words) to tell us, in no more than 250 words, why you are applying for this role and why you think you are a strong fit for the CoreTech Strategy & Delivery function.

In your response, we are interested in what draws you to this role and team, and how your background and experience would prepare you to take accountability and ownership for complex, cross-cutting delivery work in a technical environment.

We would ask that you do not use AI to write this response. If your application is successful, you will have plenty of opportunity to demonstrate how you use AI in your work but we would like this response to be personally written.

In the event of a high volume of applications, applicants will be sifted on CV alone.

Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.

Interview 1: Experience and motivations interview

Interview 2: Civil Service Behaviours interview with task. You will receive details on the task beforehand.

Interview 3: Interview with AISI senior leadership.

Sift and interview dates

Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

Further Information

Reasonable Adjustment

We are proud to be a disability confident leader and we welcome applications from disabled candidates and candidates with long-term conditions.

Information about the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and some examples of adjustments that we offer to disabled candidates and candidates with long-term health conditions during our recruitment process can be found in our DSIT Candidate Guidance. A DSIT Plain Text Version of the guidance is also available.

We encourage candidates to discuss their adjustment needs by emailing the job contact which can be found under the contact point for applicants' section.

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

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

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

A location-based reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for 12 months. Should another role become available within that period you may be offered this position.

Candidates who meet the minimum benchmark may be placed on a Reserve List for consideration for similar roles, including those at a lower grade. Candidates who narrowly miss the benchmark and are not placed on the Reserve List may still be considered for an offer in a similar role at a lower grade.

Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.

Any move to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare; for further information visit the Childcare Choices website.

DSIT does not normally offer full home working (i.e., working at home); but we do offer a variety of flexible working options (including occasionally working from home).

DSIT cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign.

DSIT holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf.

However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

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

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.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 : Joshua Mulvihill
• Email : Joshua.Mulvihill@dsit.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Georgia.Stone@dsit.gov.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the recruitment principles, and wish to make a complaint, then you should contact in the first instance DSITrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk . 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 pages: Click here to visit Civil Service Commission/Complaints.

Attachments

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