Border Force (x2 roles) - Director, Sector 1 Operations (UK Ports) & Director, Force Headquarters - SCS PB2
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Border Force - Director, Sector 1 Operations (UK Ports) & Director, Force Headquarters.
Please note: This advert is for two roles within Border Force.
Role preference
In your statement of suitability, please say whether you are applying for both roles, or for one of the roles, and if so which one. If you are applying for both roles, please say if you have a preference. If you do apply for both roles and you are successful at interview, your preference will be considered, but the Home Office reserves the right to offer you an appointment to the role which it believes would best serve its business need.
Job description
Director, Sector 1 Operations (UK Ports)
The Role
This is a high-impact role with wide-ranging responsibilities. The Director, Sector 1 Operations, is a critical leadership position in Border Force. Along with the Director General and other Border Force Executive Committee members, you will have executive responsibility for leading Border Force’s approximately 12,000 people, culture, performance, and overall budget. The Director, Sector 1 Operations, will have direct responsibility for around 7,000 full-time employees and a budget of approximately £500 million.
The Border Force Director, Sector 1 Operations, oversees and manages all frontline operational activities across Border Force’s Central, South, South-East, Heathrow, and North regions. This includes being the thematic lead for General Aviation and directly leading Air, Freight, and Fast Parcel operations for the organisation. The Director will also be the operational lead for Border Force’s ambitious transformation programme.
This role ensures the effective delivery of immigration, customs, modern slavery and trafficking regulations and responsibilities across the Sector 1 regions. The Director will lead a team of dedicated professionals to maintain the safety, security, and prosperity of the UK and the integrity of its border.
The successful candidate will, as part of the Executive Committee, ensure efficient and effective deployment of resources against priorities and strategic tasking. The Director will oversee an operational performance management regime for the sector, delivering a balanced response against the full range of threats faced across passengers and goods.
Aligned with the future Border Force 2030 Strategy, the Director will implement a programme of continuous improvement and technology-driven transformation, delivering increased productivity and efficiencies in Border Force operations year on year. This will be balanced against managing growth in passenger numbers and meeting customer service expectations.
Border Force is currently undergoing an organisational change programme. The remit and responsibilities of this role may evolve in alignment with the programme.
Director, Force Headquarters
The Role
This is a high-impact role with wide-ranging responsibilities. The Director, Force Headquarters, is a critical leadership position across the whole of Border Force. As a Border Force Executive Committee and Board member, you will have executive responsibility for leading Border Force’s approximately 12,000 people, culture, performance, and overall budget in addition to those in your directorate.
The role will have direct responsibility for around 500 full-time employees and a budget of approximately £40 million. As a newly repurposed directorate within Border Force, this role will focus on uniting various functions from across the organisation into a central headquarters and centre of excellence, with performance and efficiency at its core. Working with the Executive Committee and key partners, including the NCA and Border Security Command, you will set the strategic direction and tasking of the operational teams.
The new Director will be confident and comfortable negotiating and reaching consensus with a broad range colleagues and senior leaders across the organisation and wider government, able to set out and achieve buy-in to the strategic vision for the whole of Border Force.
You will be comfortable with a broad scope of responsibilities, setting the strategic direction for your deputy directors, and driving work forward proactively. This includes managing complex projects and workstreams of organisational change and development.
The successful candidate will drive forward work across the spending review for Border Force and lead the annual business planning cycle, working with the Director General to hold the Board accountable for workforce numbers and financial spending.
The Director will put people at the heart of the organisation, delivering an engaged and skilled workforce, capable of meeting the future needs of Border Force, building resilience, and addressing learning and development requirements.
The successful candidate will deliver the Executive Committee’s priorities for Border Force across the entire organisation, actively championing new ways of working, delivering improvements to productivity, and managing demand against capacity.
Border Force is currently undergoing an organisational change programme. The remit and responsibilities of this role may evolve in alignment with the programme.
Person specification
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 employer contribution of 28.97%
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Selection process details
Essential Criteria
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate their knowledge, experience, capability and behavioural approach to a high standard against the following key criteria:
- An established leader with the demonstrated capability to exercise operational and organisational leadership. You will show evidence of displaying and role modelling credible, visible and empowering leadership; this could have been obtained and demonstrated in a wide range of public or private organisations, from law enforcement, the armed forces, local government, the Devolved Administrations, or private sector.
- Ability to drive significant organisational improvement and operational efficiency.
- Ability to use data to embed and improve performance standards across the organisation.
- Ability to work closely with a wide range of stakeholders and evidence of partnership working.
- A fluent and engaging communicator who is able to engage staff at all levels. You will possess sophisticated influencing skills, with the gravitas and credibility to partner with senior leaders, Boards, ministers, and other senior stakeholders.
Online Application
Please follow the Job Advert instructions on the Civil Service Jobs website to apply online, no later than 23:55hrs Monday 2nd December 2024.
Provide some basic personal information;
A CV – (limited to 2 A4 pages in font 12) setting out your career history, highlighting specific responsibilities and achievements that are relevant for this role, including details where budgets and numbers of people managed, relevant achievements in recent posts, together with reasons for any gaps within the last two years;
A Statement of Suitability – (limited to 1250 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria in the person specification.
Role preference - In your statement of suitability, please say whether you are applying for both roles, or for one of the roles, and if so which one. If you are applying for both roles, please say if you have a preference. If you do apply for both roles and you are successful at interview, your preference will be considered, but the Home Office reserves the right to offer you an appointment to the role which it believes would best serve its business need.
Diversity Monitoring - as part of the online application process, you will be asked a number of diversity-related questions. If you do not wish to provide a declaration on any of the characteristics, you will have the option to select 'prefer not to say'. See the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy: 2022 to 2025 (HTML) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) for more information.
It is essential that in your written application you give evidence, using examples, of proven experience. These responses will be developed and discussed with candidates invited for interview.
Failure to submit both a CV and Supporting Statement will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification.
For further information on SCS careers and the application process, please see below:
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Security clearance: The successful candidate must be cleared to Security Clearance (SC) level before they are able to start and undergo Developed Vetting (DV) once in post if not already held.
For further information, please follow the link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/united-kingdom-security-vetting
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Shahir Mihad-Uddin
- Email : Shahir.Mihad-Uddin@homeoffice.gov.uk
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- Email : HORCSCSRecruitment@homeoffice.gov.uk
