DSIT Secondee Opportunities

• Develop a practical, in-depth understanding of how government and the Civil Service works, and how policy is developed and implemented.
• Use your specialist knowledge and skills to inform and impact policy and wider work in DSIT.
• Curated programme of training and opportunities, including the opportunity to hear from Senior Civil Servants.
• Access to Civil Service training and departmental opportunities, including the opportunity to engage with civil servants beyond the team you are placed in.
• Develop your networks in DSIT, the wider Civil Service and beyond.
• Participation in a cohort with other secondees from across a diverse range of sectors and backgrounds.

• New networks developed by their employee within DSIT, the wider Civil Service and beyond, including with other Fellows.
• An employee better able to engage with the Civil Service and understand how policy is developed and what its impacts are.
• Reimbursement of employee’s salary for the time they are with DSIT up to the level of Civil Service equivalent pay bands.

Opportunities to develop a role through the DSIT Science & Technology Fellowship can be found in the following pages of this brochure. If any of the opportunities listed spark your interest, please contact the partner who connected you to this brochure and ask them to introduce you to the Expert Exchange Programme team. If appropriate, the Expert Exchange Programme team will facilitate a matching conversation with the relevant DSIT team to test the potential for a match and to develop the potential placement. These are not role descriptions, and Fellows are expected to be actively involved in co-designing a mutually beneficial placement with their host teams.

Fellows will be selected for their experience as well as their alignment with the placement opportunity and potential impact on the work of the DSIT team. The fellows will be selected following matching conversations based on the outcomes of these conversations, and with consideration of the balance and diversity of the cohort.

Potential Fellows should be put forward to DSIT by 25 July 2024. Matching conversations will take place throughout early summer and a final decision will be taken in the late summer to allow onboarding and background checks to be completed before the Fellowship placements start in Autumn 2024.

Start/end dates can be flexed by mutual agreement of the Fellow and their host.

DSIT was founded on 7 February 2023 to build on the UK’s strong foundations of world-class research, a thriving technology scene and global networks of collaboration to create a golden thread from outstanding basic science to innovations. DSIT works on Research and Development, talent programmes, physical and digital infrastructure and regulation across the science and technology sectors.

The Expert Exchange Programme supports DSIT to deliver on its ambitious agenda by strengthening DSIT’s policy development, delivery, knowledge and skills as well as its partnerships with stakeholders. The Expert Exchange Programme aims to make it easier, encouraged and more effective to bring outside expertise into DSIT and to support civil servants in seeking diverse experiences externally. The Expert Exchange Programme team administers the DSIT Science & Technology Fellowship.