Deputy Director for Programme Management Office

This role represents a rare opportunity to deliver a workplace that will be driven by the needs of the business, supports the wellbeing of our colleagues and will enable more flexible, effective and efficient services for customers whilst also making the best use of taxpayers money.

This role will provide expert guidance, support and insight to senior strand leaders and will the source of programme information and metrics, ensuring this is translated to meet the needs of stakeholders

Role Responsibilities:

• Lead on the shaping of the organisational and programme strategy; leading and investing in people; and creating a high performing culture to deliver benefits to customers, the department and wider government
• Lead programme governance, planning, reporting and controls. This includes leading PMO (Programme Management Office) function including reporting and oversight across the programme core and delivery teams
• Lead Programme Assurance and lead the implementation of a multiple lines of defence model
• Working closely with the Programme Directors private office to ensure a seamless interface and enable efficient and effective join up with the Senior Responsible Owner alongside others
• Provide PMO leadership across the whole programme including the wider programme management community
• Act as senior escalation point for all Programme management issues and providing support to the strand delivery leads in their resolution
• Taking a corporate leadership role within DWP, ensuring Programmedesign principles are understood and ensuring that learning opportunities which arise from the programme are capitalised on and built into wider departmental thinking
• Lead development and approval of the Programme Business Cases
• With Programme Director lead engagement and reporting into Change Portfolio Board and provide leadership for DWP overall change and transformation agenda
• Manage risks and issues and demonstrate a proactive risk awareness culture
• Manage workforce planning for the Programmes ensuringthere is appropriate focus on capability and successionplanning
• Lead in the management of financial planning and controls,including spending review financial planning and reporting.

For more information on this role and working for DWP please see the candidate pack in the advert.

Person specification

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate their knowledge, experience and skills against the following essential criteria:

• Experience in the delivery of major change programmes and the complexity of large scale, digitally enabled transformation using project management frameworks and methodology
• Experience of leading at a senior level across multi-disciplinary teams, with the ability to implement and translate strategy into action, developing new approaches and setting a clear and compelling vision, that their teams (direct and indirect teams) can align behind to deliver
• A passion for building high performing teams, creating an inclusive and collaborative learning culture which values diversity and encourages openness, approachability, and sensitivity
• Strong relationship management skills able to build a powerful network of partnerships to work collaboratively
• Commercially astute with experience of delivering senior stakeholder and organisational priorities
• Experience of successfully leading transformational change within a complex and multidisciplinary organisation, inspiring and motivating others to deliver tangible and sustained outcomes in a challenging and high-profile environment
• Strong collaboration experience both within teams and across diverse stakeholder and partner networks.

You must also hold one of the following qualifications and professional memberships:

• APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ)
• APM Chartered Project Professional
• APMG Agile Project Management Practitioner
• Level 6 Project Management Degree Apprenticeship
• Management of Portfolios Practitioner
• Major Projects Leadership Academy
• Managing Successful Programmes Advanced Practitioner
• Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner
• P3O Practitioner
• PMI Project Management Professional

Behaviours

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

• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions

Benefits

DWP have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
• Generous annual leave at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (prorata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
• Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
• Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
• Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 years continuous service.
• Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Womens Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

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

To apply for this post, you will need to complete the online application process outlined below no later than 23:55pm on Monday 18th November 2024

A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years;

Three statements (maximum 500 words each) answering the 3 pre-defined questions (below), 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.
How have you developed and sustained complex and influential relationships to support and drive change to achieve a delivery outcome or strategy, and how you have made a difference.High-performing organisations usually have senior leaders who are drivers of continuous improvement. Give us a specific example of how you have motivated employees to achieve excellence.Tell us about what steps you take to ensure that large, multi-disciplinary teams are bought into your strategic direction and ambition?
Failure to submit both documents will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification.

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. All monitoring data will be treated in the strictest confidence and will not be provided to the selection panel. The information you provide when submitting your application will help us monitor our progress towards the Civil Service becoming the most inclusive employer.

If you want to know more about the role and application process please see the candidate pack attached to the advert.

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

This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

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.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window) .

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window) .

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) .

Location: Leeds, GB

Posted Date: 11/15/2024