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Senior Project Support Officer: Levelling Up Fund
Salary: £44,241 (A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%)
Location: Birmingham, Leeds
Contract type: Permanent
Working pattern: Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time
Apply before 11:55 pm on Wednesday 1st July 2026
About the job
Job summary
Do you have experience working in a Project or Programme environment?
Have you got excellent stakeholder management skills?
Are you highly organised and can effectively prioritise?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
DfT is a high-profile department at the heart of UK government. We work with agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest to make journeys better.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at DfTc
Job description
Transport is at the heart of the Government’s plan to make this a country that works for everyone. The Department for Transport supports the transport network to improve connectivity across the UK and grow the economy, while helping to tackle climate change and improve air quality by decarbonising transport.
The Levelling Up Fund (LUF) will deliver genuine local priorities for communities across all nations and regions of the UK, with the majority of funding allocated to areas that are most in need of levelling up. The team are responsible for working with Local Authorities and other scheme promoters to deliver the 54 successful transport LUF bids with a combined value of over £1bn.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Programme management of the LUF programme
- Provide advice to senior officials on LUF scheme progress
- Providing leadership on programme level communication to local authorities
- Ensuring that LUF funded transport infrastructure achievements are effectively promoted to the public
For further information on the role, please read the role profile which is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
Person specification
To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:
- Experience of working within a local government environment or of engaging with local authorities to deliver government funding.
- Project or programme delivery experience is essential. We will expect that this experience is supported by Prince 2, Managing Successful Programmes or other relevant PPM qualifications.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
- Experience of interrogating and identifying trends in data to support decision making
Click here to find out more and apply.