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Project and Admin Support Officer

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🏠 On-site
💼 Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
📍 Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Today
💰 30792 GBP ANNUAL

Job Description

Details

Reference number

265474

Salary

£30,792
£30,792

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer

Contract type

Temporary
Fixed Term
Secondment

Length of employment

23 Months

Business area

A Corporate Services Grouping

Type of role

Digital

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

Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Darlington, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Wolverhampton

About the job

Job summary

Important - To apply for this role you will need to submit an anonymised CV and covering letter, merged into one document. Further details can be found in the Selection Process section further below in this advert.

The Local Digital team at DLUHC supports councils across England to deliver the local public services of the future – services that meet the needs of citizens and deliver better value for money, based on modern technology and new, collaborative ways of working. We’re building upon the ambition of the Local Digital Declaration – our vision for the future of local public services that has been co-signed by over 300 local councils, sector bodies and Government departments.

We have recently announced exciting next steps for the programme following the increase announced at Budget and Spending Review last year.

The project support and admin officer will work closely with the collaboration managers to support funded projects and undertake administrative tasks to support Local Digital and DLUHC’s objectives.

We’re looking for a project officer who is comfortable with working with different teams and external organisations such as local authorities to support project delivery. You will have experience of working in a digital team, taking ownership of various administrative tasks and showing initiative to improve how our projects are supported.


Job description

  • Manage Local Digital Declaration signatories, ensuring new applications are processed in a timely manner and that existing signatory list is kept up to date
  • Manage relevant Local Digital mailboxes, responding to queries or passing them on to the correct people in the team
  • Own finance processes for releasing funding to our funded projects, skills, training and administration of programme budget
  • Support our funded projects with project management work, leading the development of some component assets, like business case materials and guidance for which the standard or tool is being developed.
  • Keep our stakeholders up to date by contributing to blog or website content and working with communications colleagues to ensure consistent messaging
  • Help us track our progress, reporting periodically on the impact and lessons learnt from the projects you’re working on
  • Support business improvement, ensuring our processes are continuously iterated and improved
  • Contribute to organising and supporting the delivery of Local Digital funding rounds and assessments of project outputs
  • Communication support: help communicate the benefit of the projects we undertake.

Person specification

Essential

  • Strong communications skills (both written and oral) to build and maintain good relationships both internally and externally using different channels
  • Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
  • The ability to demonstrate a high degree of flexibility and be able to prioritise competing demands
  • Experience working on Agile or Digital projects

Desirable

  • Knowledge of Government Service Standard
  • Knowledge or experience of local and central government
  • Experience with financial processes and administration
  • Experience working with teams who work out in the open e.g. sprint notes, blogs, social media.

Behaviours

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

  • Changing and Improving
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together
  • 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, 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.

We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.

We are for everyone

CV and Cover Letter Declaration

We recruit based on your knowledge and skills, and not background, gender or ethnicity - this is called name blind recruitment.

Please remove references to your:

  • name/title
  • educational institutions
  • age
  • gender
  • email address
  • postal address
  • phone number
  • nationality/immigration status

You will need to merge your CV and covering letter into one document. When submitting your application Applied will ask you to upload a CV, when doing this you should upload your merged document of your CV and covering letter.

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

At sift, through your CV and covering letter we will be assessing:

Examples:

Experience

Your covering letter should be no more than 1 page referencing how you meet the criteria set out in the job description. Please bear in mind the following behaviours when writing your covering letter – Delivering at Pace.

The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of experience, behaviour and strength based questions as listed in the advert. Changing and Improving, Communicating and Influencing, and Working Together will be tested as additional behaviours at interview stage. The strength based questions will require natural responses from the candidates.

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

Experience: Yes - Experience questions will be based around the essential skills and criteria as listed in the job description

Strength: Yes

Behaviours: Changing and Improving, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together, Delivering at Pace

We do not consider direct CV applications – 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

HEO salary

  • The salary for this role is £30,792 (National).
  • For existing civil servants, the usual policy on level transfer and promotion will apply and is non-negotiable.

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.

Location

  • Birmingham
  • Bristol
  • Cambridge
  • Darlington*
  • Leeds
  • Manchester
  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  • Nottingham
  • 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 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. This role is based at DLUHC and we will be joined on the campus by:
  • HM Treasury
  • Department for International Trade
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
  • Office for National Statistics
  • Department for Education

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

Sift and Interview dates

We will be sifting applicants as we go – so please don’t wait until the deadline to submit your application. Interview dates will be confirmed at a later stage, 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 on 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. Due to the length of time CTC checks can take, our HR Shared Services team will contact reserve list candidates for London based roles to commence CTC checks. Those candidates who do not wish to remain on the reserve list should contact [email protected] to be removed from the reserve list.

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

Candidate Pack Information

Please see attached Candidate pack for further information.

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

Fixed Term Detail

For external candidates– you will be offered a 23 Month fixed term appointment with a possibility of permanency.

For existing civil servants – you will be offered a 23 Month loan opportunity. Before applying for the role, you will need to seek approval from your parent department to take up a loan appointment should you be successful.

For DLUHC employees - you will retain your existing contract


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

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard 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)
  • 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

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code 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.
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.

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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.
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