Senior Delivery Advisor

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Do you enjoy bringing structure to complex delivery problems?

Can you build trust quickly, use evidence well, and turn insight into practical action?

Would you like to work on one of the most important public safety missions in government?

If so, we have an opportunity for a Senior Delivery Advisor to join the Remediation Delivery Unit at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

The Remediation Portfolio was established following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, which claimed 72 lives and exposed systemic failures in building safety. The government’s mission is clear: to identify buildings with unsafe cladding, increase the pace of remediation, and better protect residents. The portfolio is one of the largest and most complex in government, with total lifetime costs of over £12 billion, significant political and public scrutiny, and delivery spanning multiple organisations, markets, programmes and policy levers. It is part of the Government Major Projects Portfolio and sits at the heart of the department’s building safety work.

The Remediation Delivery Unit plays a critical role in helping the department deliver this ministerial priority. We provide delivery grip across the portfolio by strengthening governance, improving planning and risk management, building delivery capability, and helping teams resolve the practical barriers that affect pace, confidence and outcomes. We are a small, welcoming and collaborative team, working at pace on urgent, complex and high-profile delivery issues. As a Senior Delivery Advisor, you will be allocated specific areas of the Remediation Portfolio.

You will develop a strong understanding of the delivery context, priorities, plans, milestones, risks and barriers in those areas, acting as a trusted adviser to colleagues and senior leaders. You will help track progress, strengthen delivery planning, identify emerging issues, and ensure that risks, dependencies and delivery barriers are understood and acted on. You will also lead, and contribute to, targeted problem-solving projects on priority delivery challenges, working collaboratively with programme teams, the Projects Unit, policy colleagues, analysts, commercial and finance colleagues, and other delivery partners as needed.

This will include structuring delivery problems, forming hypotheses, gathering evidence, analysing data and insight, and turning conclusions into clear, practical recommendations. Your role will be to work with teams to understand what is preventing progress, what needs to change, who needs to act, and how the department can use its available levers to improve delivery outcomes.

This is an excellent opportunity to work on a broad, high-profile delivery agenda, with regular exposure to senior decision-making across the department and wider Whitehall. We are looking for an enthusiastic and collaborative team player with strong experience of leading and managing complex government delivery, ideally in a major programme, portfolio, operational delivery or transformation environment. You will be able to bring structure to ambiguity, work well through others, lead confidently, and help maintain a positive, high-performing team culture.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Building strong, trusted relationships with officials at all levels across the remediation portfolio, the department and wider delivery system, working collaboratively to understand progress, identify barriers and shape practical solutions to delivery challenges.
• Taking responsibility for allocated areas of the Remediation Portfolio, developing a strong understanding of delivery plans, milestones, risks, dependencies, performance and barriers to progress.
• Supporting teams to strengthen delivery grip, including attending relevant programme boards, improving planning, clarifying accountabilities, identifying dependencies, testing risks and mitigations, supporting escalation of issues and helping ensure that agreed actions are followed through.
• For one of the two senior delivery advisor roles, acting as the relationship manager with Homes England for the Cladding Safety Scheme, working collaboratively to maintain delivery grip, track progress, understand risks and dependencies, support timely escalation, and provide the main interface with colleagues across the wider Remediation Portfolio.
• Leading, and contributing to, targeted delivery reviews and problem-solving projects, working collaboratively with programme teams, the Projects Unit, policy colleagues, analysts, commercial and finance colleagues, and other delivery partners.
• Structuring delivery problems, forming hypotheses, gathering evidence and developing clear workplans to understand what is preventing progress and what needs to change.
• Planning and undertaking fieldwork, including site visits, interviews, focus groups and surveys, to understand barriers faced by delivery teams and frontline partners, and identify opportunities to improve implementation.
• Gathering, analysing and interpreting data and insight from internal and external sources, using workshops and other collaborative sessions to test findings, build consensus and agree actions.
• Developing practical recommendations, drawing on a strong understanding of the delivery levers available to the department, and presenting findings, delivery risks, recommendations and proposed actions to senior leaders and, where required, Ministers.
• Leading multi-disciplinary project teams and managing HEO/SEO delivery advisers, including building delivery capability, supporting wellbeing and contributing to a high-performance culture.

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

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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 referencing how you meet the criteria set out in the job description.

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

If you run into any technical problems when applying through Be Applied (for example, trouble logging in or submitting your application), their support team can help. Please contact them at hello@beapplied.com.

If we receive many applications, we may conduct an initial sift using the lead behaviour listed in the advert. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to interview.

Lead Sift: Behaviour - Communicating and Influencing

Stage 2: Interview

• Behaviours: Delivering at Pace, Making Effective Decisions, Seeing the Big Picture, Working Together
• Strengths: The strength-based questions will require natural responses from the candidates.

Candidates will be asked to prepare a 5-minute presentation, further details will be provided on invitation to interview.

Sift and Interview Dates

Sifting is envisaged to take place the week commencing 14th September 2026.

Interviews are envisaged to take place the week commencing 28th September 2026 and are currently being held remotely via videocall. This could be subject to change.

Disability Confident Scheme (DCS)

We are a Disability Confident employer.

We apply a fair and proportionate interview process for all candidates. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to progress candidates who apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and meet the required minimum selection criteria.

However, where high application volumes are received, progression to interview may be limited to those who best meet the role criteria. In these circumstances, the benchmark required to proceed to interview may be raised for all candidates.

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 Disability Confident Scheme, Redeployment Interview scheme & Great Place to Work for Veterans employer
• Reasonable Adjustments

How to Apply

Find out everything you need to know before applying here.

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• Security Clearance Requirements
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London Office: BPSS + CTC

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