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Strategic Planning & Change Overview Manager SEO

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Newcastle upon Tyne, England

2 days ago

38469 - 45919 GBP ANNUAL

Department for Work and Pensions

London, United Kingdom

Peter Schofield

Unknown / Non-Applicable

Government

1948


Job Description

Details

Reference number

268058

Salary

£38,469 - £45,919
£38,469 to £41,480 (National) and £43,755 to £45,919 (London)

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

DWP - People, Capability and Place

Type of role

Estates
Governance

Working pattern

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

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

    Location

    About the job

    Benefits

    Things you need to know

    Apply and further information

Location

Blackpool, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sheffield

About the job

Job summary

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

DWP Estates Directorate are accountable for the delivery of all aspects of real estate services and the work we do is critical in ensuring the vital work that the Department undertakes is enabled effectively. The DWP commercial estate is the largest within Government and our diverse national property portfolio reflects this scale. It is a unique mix ranging from modern corporate centres, multi-occupied Service Centres, to its frontline high street services.

We are responsible for the Department’s 900+ workplaces, that provide workplaces for 80,000 employees and a UK wide presence for all those that visit us. Ultimately, the Department relies on us to provide safe and secure buildings that are fit for purpose and meet the needs of the business.

The Department is also committed to delivering Sustainability and Net Zero Carbon improvements across its estate, demonstrating leadership in making the public estate smaller, better, greener. The work you will be undertaking is therefore crucial in us meeting the needs of all those who use our services

The role is responsible for developing long term Estates strategic direction and plans and ensuring effective management of strategic change across Estates.

You will be responsible for impacting, tracking, and supporting planning activity, and change and continuous improvement related activity across Estates, to provide confidence that it advances the DWP Estates vision and ambitions. Working closely with internal and external stakeholders to identify and impact new activity against the strategy, coordinating change champions, undertaking analysis, and developing reports that inform an overview of progress for change related projects and initiatives, helping to inform their development, planning and implementation.

Job description

This role is suitable for a hybrid working arrangement, a type of flexible working arrangement, blending a combination of all workplace options (including home) with an office identified as a base and which remains the contractual place of work. Hybrid working means an employee working part of the week in their DWP office and, part of the week from home.

Hybrid workers will spend a minimum of 40% of their time in the office over a four-week period. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. This means that colleagues’ experiences of hybrid working will differ. Also, any employee’s experience of hybrid working could change over time as role requirements and possibly personal circumstances change.

For jobs located in Wales, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

Key accountabilities

  • Experienced in Change Management and Project Planning concepts and practices, including impact analysis and benefits realisation
  • Able to critically access change proposals, provide feedback and provide possible improvements
  • Working with stakeholders to provide updates against milestones for the Estates In-Year and Strategic Plans
  • Prioritise change projects and programmes against the strategic plan and provide analysis and suggestions to senior leadership on areas of focus
  • Undertake analysis and develop insights for the Estates organisation to support development of Estates Business Strategy, People Strategy, In-year Plan, 3 Year Roadmap, Spending Review requirements and other departmental strategic initiatives
  • Support development of planning progress reports ensuring key measures are captured to tracked and reported
  • Where required, undertake specific improvement commissions and Departmental and External planning commissions

Person specification

Essential Skills, Knowledge & Experience

  • Advanced knowledge of Planning and Change tools and techniques
  • A proven track record of continuous improvement and change - delivering positive cost, quality, and performance results
  • Demonstrable successful track record of change, including cultural change management, process improvement and implementing change methodologies
  • Experience of working with senior stakeholders to ensure continued strategy convergence and achievement of milestones and objectives
  • An effective verbal and written communicator at all levels of the Organisation
  • Excellent influencing skills

Leadership attributes and behaviours

  • Reflect on own work, continuously seek and act on feedback to improve own and team’s performance. Ensure development objectives are set and achieved to address any gaps and improve delivery of current and future work
  • Have clear understanding of their role, responsibilities, and accountability within the team
  • Support continuous improvement of relevant standards, policies, processes, and governance relating to the role, identifying improvement opportunities and owning their implementation where applicable
  • Collaborate with team members and cross functional colleagues to identify and implement improvements in ways of working, policy, process and governance

As a line manager

  • Ensure clear roles and responsibilities are identified for all team members with defined objectives and clear accountability
  • Establish development objectives for your team and ensure they can be addressed are set and achieved to address any gaps and enable delivery of current and future work. Take time to coach, mentor and develop other colleagues to support succession planning. Show a positive approach to keeping the whole team’s efforts focused on the top priorities.
  • Promote an innovative and high performing culture and ensure most appropriate resources are available for colleagues to use to do their job effectively.
  • Ensure working practices of team adhere to department standards, policies, and processes and that appropriate governance is followed at all times
  • Encourage team to identify improvement opportunities to improve policies, processes and ways of working

Qualifications/professional memberships

Desirable

  • Achieved or working towards a qualification in property or project management
  • Knowledge of planning methodologies and project planning tools e.g. Microsoft Project

Behaviours

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

  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Changing and Improving
  • Leadership
  • Delivering at Pace

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, Strengths and Experience.

As part of the application process you will be asked to provide a 1000 word Personal Statement against the essential criteria as outlined above. You will also be asked to provide a short CV.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

There will be an initial sift of applications based on the Personal Statement only, so please ensure you evidence how you meet the Essential Skills, Knowledge & Experience requirement contained in the vacancy in this section. This will form a short list for interview.

All candidates who are successful at the sift stage will undertake a single virtual video interview.

The interview will follow a blended approach which will help us assess candidates Behaviours and Strengths.

Behaviours

  • Seeing The Big Picture
  • Changing and Improving
  • Leadership
  • Delivering at Pace

Currently the sift is scheduled to take place w/c 6 March 2023 and interview dates will be w/c 20 March 2023.

These dates are subject to change.

The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences. If evidence of plagiarism is found your application will be withdrawn.

Further Information

Find out more about Working for DWP

A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

Any move to DWP 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

Security Information

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service /Disclosure Scotland on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing [email protected] stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email [email protected]

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 had their employment continued. Any applicant’s 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.

Before applying for this vacancy, current employees of DWP should check whether a successful application would result in changes to their terms & conditions of employment, e.g. mobility, pay, allowances. Civil Servants that would transfer into DWP from other government organisations, following successful application, will assume DWP's terms & conditions of employment current on the day they are posted, unless DWP has stated otherwise in writing.

Reasonable Adjustment

At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.

We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

Contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the “Reasonable Adjustments” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.


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 Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
  • certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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.

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Recruitment team :

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. 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 DWP by email: [email protected].

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission here to visit Civil Service Commission


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