Public Appointments Campaign Manager
Department for Business and Trade
Apply before 11:55 pm on Tuesday 7th May 2024
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Would you like the chance to work in a high-profile team at heart of delivery of DBT’s priorities?
Can you build solid working relationships with internal and high-profile external stakeholders?
The Department for Business and Trade is looking to recruit a new Public Appointments Campaign Manager. You will have the opportunity to work in a vital area of government, working closely with colleagues from the Cabinet Office and No10.
It is vital that our public bodies are led by strong, effective, and diverse boards which reflect the societies they serve. As a team, we provide a specialised appointment and policy function, ensuring that Ministers are able to appoint the best possible talent to the boards of our public bodies.
Our public bodies deliver vital functions across our sectors. You will be supporting appointments to an exciting variety of boards, such as the Competition and Markets Authority, Low Pay Commission, and the Financial Reporting Council.
No prior knowledge of business or trade sectors is required, only a desire to learn about these organisations and work closely with policy teams to deliver best-practice appointments to these boards.
Public Appointments follow the process set out by the Governance Code for Public Appointments - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) and the process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments.
This is a varied and interesting role focused on strong customer care and delivery, with senior engagement with teams throughout the Department. You will have responsibility for project managing recruitment campaigns from start to finish. You will also have opportunity to work on special team projects such as increasing diversity of applicants, data analysis, and the talent pipeline of appointees. You will be part of a supportive and collaborative wider team helping to drive forward the Department's strategic priorities.
Job description
If you’re seeking interesting and developmental work at the heart of government, this role offers a unique opportunity to work in a high profile, focused and supportive team. This role is varied and provides fantastic opportunities to develop new, or strengthen existing skills, and engage with a varied stakeholder network. Responsibilities include:
Stakeholder management
Working across the department's range of public bodies, you will regularly engage with senior stakeholders including public bodies Chairs and Chief Executives, No10 and the Cabinet Office. The role requires strategic and political awareness, and strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to deliver difficult messages. Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing, are essential.
Campaign and programme management work
The end-to-end process of planning and appointing to these roles is called a 'campaign'. All campaign work requires project management, strategic thinking, excellent drafting and a strong customer/delivery ethos. You will manage high profile public appointment recruitment campaigns, applying and interpreting the Governance Code guidance, from the planning stages to Ministerial agreement of appointees.
You will navigate complex and at times delicately balanced stakeholder relationships, manage competing priorities, work collaboratively and to tight deadlines.
Diversity and Candidate Search
You will support and develop our diversity and candidate talent searching, to expand the talent pipeline in our sectors and devise and deliver outreach strategies. Identification of strong and diverse potential candidates is an important and growing area of our work and we are keen to develop our diversity strategy to ensure our boards fully reflect society.
Person specification
Essential criteria
- Ability to deliver successful and timely multiple projects;
- Ability to problem solve and deliver competing priorities;
- Strong organisational skills with a keen eye for detail;
- Confident at communicating verbally with senior officials with an ability to develop and motivate a network of stakeholder relationships;
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, providing high quality Ministerial briefing including when under tight time pressure.
Desirable criteria
- Excel/data analysis skills
- Project management experience
- Communications or outreach experience
- Experience of delivering or the principles of senior recruitment, including diversity and inclusion strategies.
Personal attributes & skills
- Adaptable and collaborative and able to handle changing priorities and to work flexibly across the team.
- Excellent organisational skills with ability to priorities your work and achieve deadlines
- Resilient
- Interested in work of DBT and our ALBs and keen to play a part in recruiting high calibre individuals to support our public bodies.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service
- Seeing the Big Picture
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%
We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities
Please refer to the attached candidate pack for further information on our benefits.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
Interviews for this vacancy will be conducted virtually. We will, however, consider in-person interviews by exception.
Please ensure that you check your emails regularly as all updates from us will be sent to you this way.
To apply for this post, you will be asked to complete the following as part of the online application:
- A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Provide employment history that relates to the Essential criteria, and that any gaps in employment history within the last 2 years are explained. The CV should not exceed more than 2 x A4 pages.
- A Personal Statement of up to 500 words, explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role in reference to the Essential criteria.
It is likely that the sift will take place 1-2 weeks after the closing date and interviews 3-5 weeks after the closing date though this is subject to change.
In the event of a large number of applicants, an initial short sift will be conducted on the Personal Statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to assessment/interview.
Reasonable Adjustments
We are committed to supporting candidates so they can perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. This includes making reasonable adjustments to our process. In order to request an adjustment:
Complete the ‘Assistance required’ section on the ‘Additional requirements’ page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process.
Alternatively contact the Government Recruitment Service at DBTrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
Candidate Support
You may want to join a virtual Candidate Support Session. These sessions include helpful tips and advice on the recruitment process, from application to interview.
Please see attached Candidate Pack for further information on: Diversity and Inclusion; Benefits; Learning and Development; Working Patterns and what we deliver as a department.
Further Information:
- A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made. Reserve Lists will be for each location and appointments made in merit order based on location preferences.
- Any move to the Department for Business and Trade from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments.
- The Department will not consider sponsoring a visa or issuing a Certificate of Sponsorship. We are unable to offer advice on any Visa and Immigration cases.
- New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
- Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty. Any applicant who has details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
- A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
- Terms and Conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.
- Please note – the successful candidate will be expected to remain in post for a minimum of 18 months before being released for another role.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service /Disclosure Scotland/Access NI on your behalf.
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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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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).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Lucinda Mcdade
- Email : Lucinda.Mcdade@businessandtrade.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : dbtrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Further information
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact DBT by email: Resourcing@businessandtrade.gov.uk.
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.
For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: Click here to visit Civil Service Commission/Complaints
