Policy Advisor - EO (Inside IR35) | Ref: PSR0039591

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SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.
As a Policy Advisor (EO level), your main responsibilities will be:
+ Supporting policy decisions on how to handle legal cases and the underpinning strategy.
+ Ensuring record keeping on legal cases is up to date and accurate.?
+ Assisting with tracking legal costs and ensuring invoices are paid.?
+ Keeping track of key deadlines as part of a busy portfolio and prioritising within this, to ensure MOD equities are protected.
+ Leading on the triage of incoming litigation and tasking of the team. ??
+ Liaising with the wider team and MOD legal advisor team on litigation cases, especially around disclosure and strategy for cases.
+ Ensuring good information management practices, to help prepare for legal cases.?
+ Identifying pertinent information from case working and eligibility files to clearly articulate how and why decisions were made regarding an applicant's case and across wider cohorts.

+ Ability to stay on top of trackers and chase.
+ Attention to detail/organised.
+ Strong administration skills, If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Ciara.Lynn@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Disability confident
As a member of the disability confident scheme, MOD guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
Armed Forces Covenant
MOD is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is a central government department with a mission to protect our country and provide the ultimate guarantee of its security and independence, as well as helping to protect its values and interests abroad.
To do this we have an annual budget of almost £40 billion and a workforce comprising 193,000 people, almost 59,000 of whom are civilians. We currently manage more than £11 billion of spend every year.