Deputy Director, Group Strategy and Coordination

Job description

Th e Deputy Director, Group Strategy and Coordination has distinct elements to support the Corporate Transformation Group deliver its ambition and purpose. You will have high levels of responsibility to lead and challengeexisting activity and co-create solutions to enable delivery.

The post holder has accountability for:

• Leadership of the DG Private Office, Group Governance and Group Risk team, our Group Communications team, and of the Disability Champion lead for DWP, to enable delivery of the core DG accountabilities, and drive forward the Group Vision and leadership statement and lead on the cluster operating model opportunities and future strategy for DWP, Defra, Home Office and Ministry of Justice
• Personal performance in acting as advisor to and providing briefings for the Director General. Representative for, the Director General Corporate Transformation in specific meetings such as Risk Assurance Board
• Operate at a whole system level - with experts and stakeholders including at Director level to ensure that Corporate Transformation Group delivers its objectives and purpose.

Location - You will be required to travel to London a minimum of twice a week.

To know more about the role and responsibilities, please see the Candidate pack attached to the advert.

Person specification

Essential:

• Experience working at a whole system level - with experts and senior SCS stakeholders to develop approaches based on a deep understanding of customers or colleagues, and the levers to effect positive outcomes
• Strong evidence of successfully influencing and managing complex senior stakeholder relationships and an ability to build trust-based relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across dispersed multi organisation teams, developing and maintaining effective networks
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to quickly distil large amounts of information from a variety of sources into sound recommendations and communicate complex issues clearly both verbally and in writing
• An ability to work independently and proactively, bringing flexibility, professional curiosity, and diverseperspectives into your work.
• Demonstrable experience of working successfully in multi-discipline teams to deliver
• Extensive experience of providing visible and collaborative leadership within a complex organisation, with a proven ability to build high performing teams growing confidence. and capability, employee engagement, and an inclusive culture

Desirable:

Experience of working in two or more of the following areas in a large scale or complex organisation:

• Programme Management, Business Change, Business Management, Governance, Policy and Strategy.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Making Effective Decisions

Benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

To apply for this post, you will need to complete the online application process outlined below:

A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gapswithin the last two years;

A supporting statement (maximum 1250 words) explaining why you want to work for DWP in this role; how you consider your personal skills,qualities, and experience providing evidence of your suitability for the role, withparticular referenceto the essential criteria in the personspecification.

To find out more about how to apply for this role, please see the Candidate pack.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window) .

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window) .

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

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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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window) .