Senior Implementation Advisor

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Apply before 11:55 pm on Thursday 9th May 2024

 

Details

Reference number

349728

Salary

£38,732
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

Elections

Type of role

Project Delivery

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

Birmingham, Bristol, Darlington, Leeds, Manchester, Wolverhampton

Job summary

You will be part of a dynamic team in a fast paced environment delivering a major government change programme. You will be working across all aspects of programme implementation working with the Head of Implementation to monitor and report on readiness to internal and external stakeholders including the Senior Responsible Owner and ministers.

You will act as a bridge between the Business Change Team and each local authority and valuation joint boards across England, Scotland and Wales, to understand the impact of the changes being delivered. You will build strong relationships with electoral services teams, with responsibility for understanding and assessing the delivery confidence and risks arising from each local authority or valuation joint board and recommending the appropriate action.

You will be the main point of contact in your regions and will need to filter a high volume of complexity and detail. You will work collaboratively with teams and senior officials to deliver relevant and high quality readiness checks, producing dashboards or reports of the local implementation picture.

Job description

Responsibilities

  • Line management of one Higher Executive Officer providing direction and support where required
  • Providing high quality, timely and accurate advice and feedback to ministers and senior officials on the impact of changes and the local implementation picture
  • Monitoring readiness of local authorities and valuation joint boards to absorb the changes in the Elections Bill, via 121 engagement, surveys and other channels
  • Creating readiness reports and dashboards for ministers, senior officials and those across the Programme
  • Building relationships with electoral services managers in the Business Change Network across England, Scotland and Wales
  • Working with the communications team to contribute to regular written updates and newsletters for circulation to stakeholders across the sector
  • Monitoring and reviewing risk registers, project plans, with knowledge of upcoming milestones, checkpoints and end to end processes
  • Maintaining an up to date picture of the priorities and concerns of key stakeholders, and an awareness of upcoming risks
  • Working closely with other Programme functions across policy, communications, stakeholder engagement, planning and strategy, benefits management, analysis, the Programme Management Office, and with external delivery partners
  • Maintain an understanding of the wider delivery context and political environment to be able to align project decisions and activities accordingly

Person specification

Essential Criteria

  • Excellent relationship management skills and the ability to build productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Excellent planning and organisation skills, with the ability to horizon scan
  • The ability to absorb details and filter the relevant information
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills including being able to translate complex messages into quality written products and verbal advice to a range of audiences
  • Strong problem solving skills
  • The ability to work flexibly and under pressure on changing priorities and actively prioritise multiple issues/tasks at pace
  • The ability to promote and strengthen cross-team working
  • Confidence in representing our organisation's interests and the ability to understand potential sensitivities and wider political dimensions of key issues connected to the Programme

Desirable Criteria

  • Experience producing surveys, dashboards or reports

Behaviours

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

  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Working Together
  • Communicating and Influencing
Alongside your salary of £38,732, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £10,457 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
  • 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%

Selection process details

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

We are for everyone 

At DLUHC we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. We promote equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment and a working environment free from discrimination, harassment, bullying and victimisation. 

Please contact the vacancy manager if you have any questions about the role.   

As part of our pre-employment checking process we will be using your CV to confirm your job history. Please note that by providing us with your CV you are consenting to us using the information enclosed as part of the checking process. 

We are for everyone 

DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.  

Our application system is designed to remove as much bias as possible from the recruitment system – this means that a hiring manager does not know your name, your details, see your whole application in one go (or have your CV at review stage unless stated otherwise).  

At application stage you will be asked to upload a CV document. Unless stated otherwise in the advert, your CV will not form part of the assessment but will be used for information purposes and only shared with the panel at interview stage. 

Your answers are randomised and chunked up. This means that each assessor views sets of responses to questions for example all candidates’ responses to ‘Seeing the Big Picture’ rather than seeing a candidate’s full application. The science behind this is that recruitment can be subject to ordering and fatigue effects and we want to reduce this as much as possible.  

Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors. 

When writing your application, remember: 

  • The assessor won’t be reading your answers sequentially.  
  • Do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.  
  • If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on!) 

 

At sift, we will be assessing 

Behaviour 1: Working Together (lead behaviour) 

Behaviour 2: Seeing The Big Picture

Behaviour 3: Communicating and Influencing

Experience: Please set out your stakeholder management experience and why it is suited to this role

There is a 250 word limit per question. 

In the event that we receive a large number of applications, we may conduct an initial sift using the lead behaviour listed in the advert. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview. 

 

The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of the following success profiles elements:    

Behaviour: Seeing The Big Picture, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together

Experience

Strength: The strength based questions will require natural responses from the candidates.  

 

In the full campaign we will test the below Success Profile Elements: 

Behaviours: Seeing The Big Picture, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together

Experience 

Strengths

 

We do not consider direct CV applications to our Recruitment mailbox – you must apply for this role via the application link on Civil Service Jobs 

Please note that near miss offers may be made at the lower grade to candidates who do not meet the grade criteria for this campaign. 

 

SEO salary 

  • The salary for this role is £38,732 (National). 
  • For existing civil servants, the usual policy on level transfer and promotion will apply and is non-negotiable. If you apply for a role that requires a transfer of location, for example if you are transferring from London to a National location, your salary will be adjusted in accordance with our policy on transfer between HQ pay ranges. 

 
Please note that the average employer pension contribution is based upon the National minimum salary for this role. Should your agreed starting salary for this role be different, the average employer pension contribution will be calculated accordingly. If you are a Secondee, this will not apply as you will remain on your home organisation’s terms and conditions.   

  

BENEFITS: 

Transfers across the Civil Service on or after 4 October 2018: 
Any move to DLUHC from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk 

For further information about the benefits available to DLUHC employees, please see the attached Candidate Pack. 

 

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION: 

  • Birmingham
  • Bristol
  • Darlington*
  • Leeds
  • Manchester
  • Wolverhampton 

There may be opportunities for candidates to work flexibly depending on the business needs. This will be discussed with the vacancy manager on a case-by-case basis if you are successful for the role. 

*Please note: The Darlington Economic Campus (DEC) is a pioneering new cross-government hub which will bring together people across departments and public organisations to play an active role in the most important economic issues of the day. The work of the Campus will make a real difference to people both across the UK and internationally. There will be substantial career opportunities and exciting prospects - a career at the Campus means you will be working at the heart of Government, with access to the benefits and fantastic opportunities offered by the civil service.  

For further information on the DEC, please take a look at the attached DEC candidate pack. 

SIFT AND INTERVIEW DATES: 

Sifting is envisaged to take place W/C 13 May 2024 with interview dates to be confirmed. All interviews are currently being held remotely via videocall. 

 

Reserve List

In the event that we identify more appointable candidates than we currently have posts available, we will hold applicant details in a reserve list for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. This may include roles at a lower grade. Candidates placed on a reserve list will be informed of this. Those candidates who do not wish to remain on the reserve list should contact recruitment@levellingup.gov.uk to be removed from the reserve list. 

 

Candidate Pack Information 

Please see attached Candidate pack for further information. 

Before starting your application it’s very important to make sure that you are eligible to apply and meet the Civil Service nationality requirements. All candidates are expected to read the information provided in the DLUHC candidate pack regarding nationality requirements and rules 

 

Internal Fraud Database 

The Internal Fraud function of the Fraud, Error, Debt and Grants Function at the Cabinet Office processes details of civil servants who have been dismissed for committing internal fraud, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned. The Cabinet Office receives the details from participating government organisations of civil servants who have been dismissed, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned, for internal fraud. In instances such as this, civil servants are then banned for 5 years from further employment in the civil service. The Cabinet Office then processes this data and discloses a limited dataset back to DLUHC as a participating government organisations. DLUHC then carry out the pre employment checks so as to detect instances where known fraudsters are attempting to reapply for roles in the civil service. In this way, the policy is ensured and the repetition of internal fraud is prevented.  

For more information please see: Internal Fraud Register 



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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : Samantha Holden
  • Email : Samantha.holden@levellingup.gov.uk

Recruitment team

  • Email : recruitment@levellingup.gov.uk

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