Job Description

Strategy Advisors support the identification, collation, interpretation, presentation, analysis and management of information and data, enabling provision of strategic advice and effective strategic decision making within required deadlines. This supports the delivery of the NDA Strategic Outcome Specification and aligns to regulatory guidance. This includes supporting the evaluation of technical and strategic options, supporting overall coherence, recognising key interdependencies, and assessing deliverability, whilst supporting transparency and stakeholder confidence in strategic decision making.

Strategy Advisors conduct strategic assessments and manage business-critical data and analysis that informs best value approaches for delivery and mission enabling functions; whilst maintaining regulatory, and other stakeholder, confidence, with oversight from appropriate levels of supervision and governance.

Principal Accountabilities

• Deliver work packages to help inform/develop the strategy and approaches, within the required timescales.
• Support the development and maintenance of strategy, technical, baseline plans and integration documents, ensuring a unified approach. This includes the initial gathering and collation of information, arranging meetings with key contributors/stakeholders, facilitating or participating in workshops to develop the strategy, progress strategy implementation and ultimately the mission.
• Deliver strategic reporting e.g. development and maintenance of the strategy health dashboards and enabler dashboards.
• Work with other Portfolios and Enterprise Departments to align strategies and plans, resolve any disconnects, and ensure integration with the overall enterprise and NDA strategy.
• Attend and provide input to appropriate strategy working group meetings as required.
• Support the delivery of strategy governance meetings, including the arranging and alignment of key governance meetings, preparing agendas, recording minutes and actions and tracking these through to completion.
• Gather learning from experience (LFE) from all areas and apply this learning effectively when delivering work scope.
• Support prioritisation activities, ensuring risks are appropriately considered and managed.
• Support the identification, underpinning and management of key decisions, including the use of specialised decision management software such as Accolade.

Authorities & Dimensions

Authorities:
• Prepares appropriate strategy documents.
• Checking strategy, technical, business and other key documents to required level.
• Perform specific duties required by the role and assigned by the Line Manager, in accordance with the bounds of the skills and competencies possessed by the individual. • To identify personal development needs to develop within the profession.

Dimensions:
• Provision of strategic advice for decision makers on key decisions which affect the strategy.
• Knowledge and understanding of enterprise activities associated with their scope/area.

Essential Skills

• Effective communications and influencing skills allowing them to not only extract information but to provide accessible information to stakeholders.
• Strong data analysis capability to gather and interpret insights that underpin strategic recommendations.
• Stakeholder management skills to identify potential issues and facilitate resolution.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills and the ability to articulate messages that are new or negative.

Desirable Skills

• University degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience of working in a nuclear operations, portfolio, business, strategy, technical or project management team.
• Experience in supporting portfolios, programmes, or major multidisciplinary projects. • Demonstrated influencing skills and an elevated level of integrity.
• Experience in working within political, and challenging change management environments, e.g. implementing strategies, improvements or changes.
• Knowledge, experience and understanding of defining business requirements.

Additional Information

• Open VN
• Number of Vacancies: 1
• Contact/s: Chris Mathieson

The interviews for this vacancy are expected to be 10th & 11th December.

ASW’s may have the right to apply for internal Sellafield Ltd vacancies. Please note if you are an Agency Supplied Worker you are required to attach evidence of all qualifications obtained to support your application. We require a minimum of A*-C (9-4) GCSE in English Language, Maths & Science/IT or equivalent / higher qualification.

Contracted Supply Workers (CSWs) are not eligible to apply to internal vacancies. CSWs are welcome to apply to external vacancies advertised on our external vacancies board.

If you choose to apply for this role and your application is shortlisted by the hiring manager, you will be invited to a competency based interview. In the interview, you will be assessed against the below competencies:

Behavioural:
1. Problem solving
2. Collaboration and Teamwork
3. Adapting to and leading change

Technical:
1. R&T technical expertise
2. Knowledge of SL

Please see link to the competency framework for further information:
https://slportal.ssa-intra.net/pub/SC001/00027/Competency%20Framework/Forms/AllItems.aspx

If your technical competency is not in the above framework, please refer to the profession’s share point page for further information.

Sellafield Ltd are recognised as a Disability Confident Employer (Level 3). Disability Confident employers offer an interview to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. Sellafield Ltd define the minimum criteria as the ‘essential skills’ which are listed on the vacancy notice. Whilst completing your application form, you will be able to indicate if you wish to be considered under the disability confident scheme. If you would prefer to discuss this directly with us, please contact the GBS Recruitment team on recruitment@sellafieldcloud.co.uk

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The closing date for this vacancy is 16th November 2026.